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What makes a CTD sound like a Semi?.?

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Old 08-10-2005, 07:04 AM
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What makes a CTD sound like a Semi?.?

I bought my 1st CTD about a year ago, bought it for the pulling power for the farm. I know a little bit about diesel engines, but am not at all familiar with performance parts and exhausts for trucks.... that said....

I live on a pretty busy country road cars fly by here every morning starting pretty early,

at about 5:30 every morning when im eating breakfast I hear what sounds like a loaded dump truck spooling up to go up the hill by the house..... and I look out and its the same dodge CTD pulling a skid steer......

The truck is similar to mine, I know its a 24V, and I was behind him at a stoplight and heard him shifting one day, so i know its a manual trans....

What makes this truck sound so much like a semi..... What do I have to do to make mine grunt a little more? Is it all in the exhaust?

Thanks for the help
Old 08-10-2005, 07:22 AM
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Cut out your muffler, and straight pipe it, or get you a 4" exhaust system from Rip Rook. You can get it with a muffler, or without. I chose to have the muffler, and it still sounds like a big rig !!
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if you will pull out your silencer ring in your turbo and put 4'' downpipe to 5'' stacks, then you will sound like a big rig.
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Originally posted by blackdiesel02
if you will pull out your silencer ring in your turbo and put 4'' downpipe to 5'' stacks, then you will sound like a big rig.
Partially true


My 1996 with straight pipe sounds like a big rig, oh by the way, its four inch pipe.. You are right about the silencer ring, and if its a second gen, if u have stock airbox, pull out the sleeve that connects the passenger fender to the airbox, and even more whistle.. U dont need stacks to sound like a big rig, but they are more genuine...

PS.. it also helps if its a maunal, and in the way you shift it....

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This does...

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...php?photo=3800
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4" or larger open exhaust, its that easy.


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I have 5" exhaust from turbo to tip and no muffler. Definately a bit on the "big rig" sound
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Yeah i would say!!
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Ask Rip about a system we developed.

Mention me and the Helmholtz resonator.

He will fab up a real kick butt sounding exhaust tone (C Series cummins i kid you not!) that has NO DRONE in it!

It is a straight pipe with a little applied physics (standing wave) and works tremendously
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Any turbo that is large.
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Mine has the stock 3" downpipe and stock pipe to the middle of the door, goes to 4" up and over the framerail, through the bed and into a 5" stack. THat things got the billy bigrigger sound in spades!
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BHAF will also make it whistle more!
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i just put on 5 inch stacks she roars like a semi now.
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Straight pipe and BHAF seem to have done it for me.
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Originally posted by 24valver
i just put on 5 inch stacks she roars like a semi now.
i second that!


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