Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Adding and AFE and dumping the muffler.

[kbond]

before I dump the muffler. does anyone regret they did this on their rig?? I figure it's such a cheap mod to lower egt's and help flow. How is the noise? I am keeping the resonator. Thanks for the help.



Ken



Oh yeah, I have an VA already.

 

[kbond]

anyone?

 

[WTBurke]

Ken, yes muffler removal is the best move you can make for the money. I did the same thing but left the resonator inplace. I ran this way for 10k miles. I just put a 4" on last week and noticed no improvement over the factory system with no muff. Heck of a thing to spend $700+ for looks... and the $50 factory muff removal was mutch more impressive.

Noise... heck do it... you'll have the biggest grin on your face

There is no noise... until you put your foot in it



William

 

[WadePatton]

I dropped the muffler and left the resonator as well. There is some drone at 2000 but I've seen some fixes on here for that. I just haven't tried any.



I'll take the drone over the muffler any day.



I'm going up to a 4" downpipe and 5" straight next time. ROWDY!



Get that muffler OFF, it disappoints me every time I hear a 5. 9 with a factory muffler!



and NOTHING flows more per $ than the BHAF and it's oil-less.

 

[bighammer]

It sounds cool without a muffler except when you don't want to stand out. (ie: cop next to you at a light in town) It gets pretty loud under load. I put a 4" Dynomax muffler on mine after being straight-piped for a year or two.



As far as the filter goes, I agree that the BHAF is your better buy. JMHO of course.