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Old 09-02-2014, 06:45 AM
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I put a flowmaster 10 series on my truck this winter and it's not even that loud. Only around 2000 rpms is when I can hear it. It's supposed to be the loudest flomaster on the market. Even about the 44 series. Anyone else have this problem or suggestions? My truck is all stock and has all cats on.
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It's only ganna get so loud with the cats on.
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Yeah what he said.


Stock Headers and intermediate pipe will be the bottleneck as far as loudness goes.




If you decide to put on an off-road (catless) pipe you might crap yourself.
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The factory cats will keep it quiet. I have longtubes, O/R Y, no cat. I'm using a Borla Pro XS, but it got to be annoying so I have since added in a resonator to make highway trips more comfortable..
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what you do is you put a dynomax bullet on there. there mellower/ deeper but sound soo much better. there straight through and the shorter one is 16" long and is louder than the 10 on my setup( I switched from the ten for same reason and it was free so no problems there), but yea cats are you problem, im going to cut my bottom 2 out eventually. if you wanna stay flow master though, my cousin use to have an f150 and says the original 40 is the loudest for ford.


another pro is with the bullet, if you wanna go straight pipe and looks legal, all you gotta do is stick some pipe through the muffler and itll look completely legal, but like I said, although, after putting on my bullet I heard a straight pipe and was disgusted lol.

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Straight pipes and bullets doent sound great at all. After a year or so with one it got ditched for my current setup. Not to loud but no drone and very throtty
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straight pipe and bullets are completely different sounding, the bullet I have is deep and nice, straight pipe is just raw, and being below a 5.0 doesn't sound good at all. I was just saying if the kid wanted to run straight pipe he cound and keep the muffler appearance.



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