Would have to say electric cut outs

 

AIR RAM - Thats really an interesting concept. I'm in the same boat as timmy.
Going this Thurs for air intake/ new exhaust.

I was planning on keeping the cat & resinator, then adding in either the Flowmaster 50 HD or Aero 3030.

BUT... you do have a clever idea there. One I might see if the speed shop can do. Remove stock muffler, fill with straight pipe. If too loud, add in one of those two.

I'm going nuts debating on a combo for exhaust though.

With air intake... the debate is
1) just drop in K&N to factory set up
2) The K&N 3" tube/with cone set up.

Oh the choices...

 

ive got a 2nd gen not a 3rd, but when i went and replaced the stock with a highflow msgnaflow cat, 2.25" pipe out the back and a flowmaster 40, i got LOUD. uncle has a hemi and hes got a flowmaster also. i dont think its any louder than mine, but very loud.

 

Hey, I just had the muffler cut out and kept the cat, and had a y pipe installed to get the dual run out the back with 18x3 and a half inch chrome tips pointed out at each corner of the bed. I've had nothing but compliments on it and haven't had any problems with cops. It sounds really good, either at idle, mid range or high rpm. Has a real throaty tone at idle and mid range and was told at high rpm it sounds like nascar, especially when I'm passing someone. Cost was 120 bucks for the whole thing. I was really worried about how loud it would be in the cab before I did it, but I have to say, since it is run all the way out the back, cruising down the highway at 70mph, it's really not that lound in the cab, u can definately hear it and it has a good tone, but it's not so loud that you can't talk normally to the person in the passengers seat. It's just something for ya to think about. BTW, I have an 02 with the 4.7, pics of it are in my gallery. Any questions, feel free to ask

 

post cat cutout. flip of a switch and you bypass the muffler for a hella loud beast

 

what they said, the cutout is bada**! match that with a pair of ceramic coated pacesetter headers and you'll be good to go.

 

Somebody might actually take that seriously and hack up their new truck. lol

 

Ummm.....What would be wrong with that?
Keep your cats and downflow O2 sensor and you won't cause any harm.
I did it on my 95 and my 97 when I was young and crazy, and I never heard a word about it from any police.

The cut-outs would be a worse fix...because now your coming out right behind the cats with NO pipe. That would honestly sound horrible.

 

Ummm.....Maybe the fact that cutting the exhaust off and running straight pipes without cats is hack. This isn't 1986 anymore. Big power can be made through cats, and a quality exhaust system is usually relatively inexpensive and a phone call away.

To answer the original question...I run a Flowmaster Super 40 with single inlet and dual outlet, and it exits before the right rear tire. Looks sharp and is loud as hell. It's a good loud too. Not the kind of crappy loud you get from open headers or straight pipes. And it was ridiculous with my headers and hi flows.

 

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I dont think it sounds that bad at all