re: Buying a new truck soon (Went with a Dodge)

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Its Kevin Duet right? I know him fairly well. I will go check with him too see if he can do it. I have had flowmasters put on by Jody at his shop in Raceland before...always sounds good. Dont think i want flowmasters again. Have you dont anything else to yor truck?

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Yep, that's him.

A single in/dual out flowmaster was the first muffler I put on my old '04. They're okay...I like the Magnaflow, but I think I like the dual in/dual out design the best. To me it always sound better...more of a nice rumble than that "redneck clap" you get with some mufflers.

Only thing done to this truck is window tint and a muffler swap. I may level it and put some beefier tires, and that's it. Chrysler has the PCM so heavily encrypted on all of their 2011+ models that no one can crack the coding and release a tuner yet. Otherwise I'd have probably put my old Diablo tuner on my new truck.

I did take my new one to the track for s's & g's over the Winter though. Ran a 14.69 as is (muffler swap only)...I know I can get a 14.5 out of it if I wanted to. Just not sure I want to beat on this truck like I did my old one, lol.

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ok so i have been cruising around a few dodge forums and a magnaflow's site....just how necessary is the Y pipe change? As I understand it the Y pipe is one of the restrictive areas in the stock exhaust but my only concern is getting the diameters right on the inlet and outlets because so I don't defeat my original purpose. So my fear is to spend the extra money changing the y pipe and not getting some sort of performance (hopefully mileage) increase for the money. did you notice any mpg gain when you changed it all out?

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They probably have Y-pipes of various sizes already laying around the shop...most good exhaust shops do since it's a universal part. I didn't buy one when I had my exhaust done...think he just swapped it for me or fabbed one up himself.

I didn't notice a huge difference...but I can average right at 20 mpgs driving from Houma to BR if I am light on the go-pedal. I don't think swapping the Y is an absolute necessity...but it certainly won't hurt to do.

And FWIW, I post on dodgetalk and another smaller forum called nadodge (more performance based) under the same s/n

Money put is an understatement. Another option that I've read (I was on dodgetalk A LOT before I got my F150) is to get a 18" Magnaflow and remove the resonators. The 18" keeps the drone down and no resonators makes it a bit deeper sounding.
The Y pipe swap is no problem at all. Wont help mpg but won't hurt at all. Great mod if you plan on doing performance upgrades down the road.

Jordan, I can't believe that they still don't have a programmer out. I remember hearing all about the advanced computer but I figured that they would have it figured out by now.

Sounds like your old truck sounded mean. I did a cat delete also but didn't do cutouts. Some days I miss the sound of my old truck but my sanity thanks me more often than not.