Guys with stacks...

[MattyB4x4]

Well, I'm in the market for a 12V ram and love the straight piped sound. I would love a 5" stack with some flappers on the top. haha. So a few questions came to mind.

1. If you have straight piped stacks do you love em, hate em?
2. I have heard it is super loud in the cab...is this true?
3. Did you buy a kit, go to a muffler shop, or make your own...price?

Thanks. I tried to do a search for stacks but didnt come up with much. Any other info or comments appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

[pmurf1]

Common sense would tell you that it is going to be much louder. A 5" regular exhaust is too loud for me in the first place. You can always hear one of them coming and going on Cummins, and they have bends and a lot more pipe than you would. 6.0 Ford's all you hear is turbo. Plus they 5-8" farther back and mounted a lot lower. Not to mention the Cummins is the loudest motor just running by itself.

Just be sure to mount your confederate flag high enough so it doesn't get burned/sooted. :flipoff2:

[wideopenDiesel]

Every truck I've ever heard with em sound great ..personally I'm not a fan of the Stacks...but to each is there own..

[Kornfed]

A stock exhaust straight piped 12V is ridiculously loud in the stock location. I couldn't imagine a 5" straight stack. You may lose your hearing.

[HeyBeerMan]

Sounds like a rice burner mated with a pick up truck. :barf:


beerman

[JTMcC]

I've got a single 5" stack (on the passenger side) on my welding rig. Before that I had 4" on a 91 cummins. And before that a 4" on a '83 F-350/Navastar. It is fairly loud under load, specially with the windows down. But not too loud for me. My wife rides over there but has never complained. Keep in mind that some women would whine about the noise. My current truck is an '02 24 valve, it revs faster and smoother over 2600 rpm, below that there's no noticable change.
There is absolutely no correlation between the sound of a Cummins w/straight exhaust, and a ricer.

JTMcC.

[Lance]

Just be sure to mount your confederate flag high enough so it doesn't get burned/sooted. :flipoff2:

:laughing:

[MattyB4x4]

the flag might get burned...its 16ftx12ft...HA freakin HA :grinpimp:

just lookin for what people say about them. I'm not even sure what I want to do, but I kinda like the look of them...not the ones with the big bend at the top that stick up about 10 inches above the cab, I'm talkin about 2 inches above the cab....flat top or 45 degree cut. Whatever...i'm not gonna argue my opinion...after all, you know what they say about opinions...


matt

[Mutt]

Have a ford here at work (7.3)with them and they are about 5" above the box and angle back, "HELLO???? WHAT DID YOU SAY???? I CAN"T HEAR YOU"

[JTMcC]

The V-8 Navastar motors sound quite a bit different than the straight 6 Cummins do.

JTMcC.

[MattyB4x4]

Mutt...is it really that bad...I love loud trucks...but is it too loud, would you ditch them for a single exhaust under the truck?

[in2gpn]

Stacks are totatly redneck :flipoff2: .. I straight piped my 01 CTD and when towing or haulin ass is too load for me, might have to upgrade to a flow through muffler

[Mutt]

Well another company that rolls through my shop, their ford has stacks on it that a previous company installed, and NONE of the employee's want to drive it, they can barely talk on the phone while they drive...Its a nice loud drone on the interstate...

Fawk stacks, run a good flow through exhaust all the way to the back of the bed, let someone but YOU hear it...

[freds40]

Yeah my 12 valve Cummins has 5" from the turbo back, even has a small muffler in there. I can talk to passengers fine windows up or down. With the windows down, I can hear the exhaust pretty well but not overkill. If I get next to a concrete wall onthe freeway with the windows down, it's pretty loud in the cab. Best part is many buddies have told me "man I could hear you when made the turn onto that street 3/4 of a ile away." So it's plenty loud, just not in the cab. :D

[unimogken]

A guy that lives at the end of my street has stacks on his truck.

He stopped by a week ago to check out my Unimog and to brag about how cool his truck is with the big 8" holes in his bed so that he could have his pipes come up thru it.

Yeah really cool :rolleyes:

I told him that he should of just bought a Kenworth .........heheh

[ScoutIITD]

Well, I'm in the market for a 12V ram and love the straight piped sound. I would love a 5" stack with some flappers on the top. haha. So a few questions came to mind.

1. If you have straight piped stacks do you love em, hate em?
2. I have heard it is super loud in the cab...is this true?
3. Did you buy a kit, go to a muffler shop, or make your own...price?

Thanks. I tried to do a search for stacks but didnt come up with much. Any other info or comments appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

1st stacks don't look good on a pickup!

On tractor trailer trucks geting the stack up as high as possible above the cab helps. I drove an old Autocar with a 318 Jimmy that had short stacks and it was LOUD. :eek: We added 24" extentions and it helped some.

Remember unless you have more than six gears in your tranys main box stacks are stupid.

[Lil Toe]

Also, with stacks on a pickup anything you haul on a trailer will be covered in soot by the time you get there.

[Bigred84cj8]

Well I did it on an 02 F250. Dual 5" slash cut pipes that stuck a couple inches over the top of the cab, straight piped. Made my own. One hold in middle of bed, one Y, two pieces with 90 degree turn up and the stacks bolted into them, clamps through bed rail to hold straight. Total cost $350 or so.

Now why I wouldn't do it again. Yes they were extremely different and quite the topic of conversation "are those real?" Loud... well they didn't resonate or drone inside the cab but they were pretty loud, not too much though than the 4" straightpipe system I took off. Now open the rear window and DAMN!! I drilled a couple holes in the bottom of the system to drain rain water, that worked but if I was going to tow anything I needed to let it warm up long enough to evaporate the moisture from inside the pipes. I covered my center console with black soot the first time I towed with them :mad3: Also the rain would knock alot of the soot inside the pipes loose and when I cranked it up it rained black shit down on the other cars in the driveway. Now if I'd had flappers that wouldn't have been as big of a deal. Also had to make a piece of diamond plate to go in front of the pipes inside the bed as they got HOOOOTTTT and would melt anything that touched them.

So overall I wouldn't do it again. They were neat and went with the 8" lift and 38's but on a stock height truck they would look stupid. The noise didn't bother me near as much as the other stuff. It took a LONG time to get all that black off everything in that white center console.

[StudNuts]

I think stacks are way cool...I have a set waiting to go on my PSD. But straight piped are loud. I recommend people running stacks that they integrate a high flow muffler just before the Y to keep the noise down. For cummins, the aeroturbine or an mbrp muffler sound great and wont make you deaf.

I carry both mufflers and 4"/5"/6" stacks with all fittings and hardware ;)

[Jrod-13]

some of you guys need to pound the sand out...

how could this NOT look sweet?

:drool:

http://members.rennlist.com/jrod13/cummins.JPG

[Toyota_Jim]

Stacks belong on a semi. Loud exhaust belongs on a semi. I get tired of hearing all the fuckin cummins straight pipes driving around.

[Bigred84cj8]

Wish I could have put injectors on my ford to make it do that. Damn powdered metal rods. I'd have been in love with that look.

[crashnzuk]

It was already said, when it rains soot gets on EVERYTHING when you start it. Rain caps sound like a good idea, until you listen to them clanging. They will drive you apeshit. If I were to do stacks, they would have turn-outs but would be flush with the od of the pipe. I still don't think I'd do it personally though. Oh yea, my truck is straight piped.
Travis..

[MattyB4x4]

well, seems like a love hate thing...i think my best bet would be not goin with the stacks...maybe some duals or something. I dont like the sound of soot all over everything...thanks for the input and sweet pic dude

[RufusTheRam]

stacks are almost as bad as clearance lights :flipoff2:

[Richard]

some of you guys need to pound the sand out...

how could this NOT look sweet?

:drool:

http://members.rennlist.com/jrod13/cummins.JPG
how does sending huge clouds of black sooty smoke into the air look sweet :shaking: I like the deisel truck as much as everyone else , but the black sooty smoke I don't like

[nosliw]

i have dual 3.5" turn outs on a turbo'ed V-8 Ford IDI. soot does get on everything in the morning with dew. rain isn't so bad, it just washes the soot off when you drive. i hit a "sweet spot" at about 1850 RPMS and the stacks will get pretty loud ( i have an extended cab truck) exhaust is straight piped and 3.5" all the way back from the down pipe.

i did have a good website to buy "stack stuff" from, but i can't find the link...they sold Ys, straight pipe, 45 and 90 elbows all the way up to 6" i believe.

[nosliw]

how does sending huge clouds of black sooty smoke into the air look sweet :shaking: I like the deisel truck as much as everyone else , but the black sooty smoke I don't like

it must be an east coast thing. that pic makes my stecker peck out.

[AaronC]

There is absolutely no correlation between the sound of a Cummins w/straight exhaust, and a ricer.

JTMcC.

Same principle though. And if that's not enough, there's all those trucks driving around with 50 damn "C" stickers.....
I swear, over half the Cummins I see have to be driven by ex-ricers.