MikeyB

I was cruising the TDR at lunch today and somebody posted about drilling a bunch of holes through the guts of the stock muffler. Said it sounds great. Wondering if anyone here tried this yet? Might give me a change to try out my new 24" drill bits.

MikeyB

gsbrockman

Never heard of that method before, but I did hear of one guy on the TDR that sawed his muffler off near the end, torched all the baffles and removed them, then re-welded the case back together. I guess it would work as long as you could find a shop willing to do it and could do it right.
Greg

Dodgezilla

Wouldn't it suck if you did it and didn't like it? Now you would be stuck with a bad sound unless you had the foresite to have another muffler just in case. I wouldn't do it! Just buy another muffler..... I'll sell you mine.........

MikeyB

Dodgezilla,
I'm planning to change the muffler to either a Donaldson or Nelson anyway. So what the heck, I have nothing to lose.

MikeyB

ramcummins

Just do like the rest of us and replace it with a piece of pipe

BigBlue

That would be an interesting sounding exhaust. Probably very hollow sounding.

MikeyB

Tried to get the rear pipe off the muffler this morning. No go. The clamp swedge the two pipes together. Oh well......

MikeyB

abc4yew

From what I've read here, you might need to apply some torch heat, release the clamp and tail pipe hangers and apply some hammer touch. It should twist out if your lucky, if not then I hear a sawsall works good. KS

E7mack96

I had to Sawzall mine off. The person that put the exaust on at the factory musta been a gorilla. the pipe was collapsed 1/4 inch from the clamp. No chance of coming off.

Anyway, I cut the whole system off at the end of the cab just before the muffler. Like running open headers in a way. Sounds great, and still is relatively quiet at idle.

blownaway

I would at least get that thing out the side of the truck!

E7mack96

Actually, I'm considering stacks in the bed. I am getting no odor in the cab as of yet.

Tell you what, that turbo screams. After cooldown, and shut down, you can hear it spool down for like 5 secs.