Does anyone have any recommendations for a good looking and sounding exhaust for a 1995 f150 with the 5.0? The truck is stock with 40k miles and it could use a little more in the sound department.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a good looking and sounding exhaust for a 1995 f150 with the 5.0? The truck is stock with 40k miles and it could use a little more in the sound department.
Headers y'd into the biggest straight-through muffler you can get into single side pipe.
Black widow neighborhater
My 289 had long tubes into 2.5" tubing to Flowmaster 40s. Not crossed over. I adored that sound.
Blunder said:Does anyone have any recommendations for a good looking and sounding exhaust for a 1995 f150 with the 5.0? The truck is stock with 40k miles and it could use a little more in the sound department.
You've got a '95 F150 with 40K on it?
You need to put that on BaT instead of messing with the exhaust.
In reply to Mr_Asa :
It had 18k when I bought it. About 7 years ago. It's now my dads. I tell him what they are worth but he likes driving it on nice days. The stock cat back would be kept so it could be put back to stock. He just wants a little more tone out of it.
It might be the nostalgia talking, but I feel like the classic SBF sound is created with Flowmasters.
In reply to Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) :
That's 100% how I feel.
I had flowmasters on dual 2.5" behind a 351. I liked the sound, but it wasn't super far from being obnoxious.
Flowmasters. They are just right on SBFs
^^^Except if you have neighbors you like. My SBF uses Borla mufflers without an X or H pipe. I like it.
Sound amazing, pretty rowdy. 18yo me thought they were so cool.
Single 2.5 mandrel bent exiting in stock location with a 40 series Flowmaster would get it did. I would also do shorty headers and if you can get it where you live, a cat-delete Y pipe.
Still wont sound as good as a "5.0 with flows" due to different firing order and cam but wont be terrible. If you wanna go nuts order up a cam for it too. Then it will sound the business.
In reply to 93gsxturbo :
Why would you do a cat delete on a stock 5.0 truck motor? Also, isn't the firing order the same?
To the OP, I'd look for a shop to do a cat-back using the longest case Dynomax Race Bullet muffler in the same size inlet & outlet as what's coming off of the cat outlet pipe. Run that to a side-dump just head of one of the rear wheels at the bed side.
I'm gonna say boom tubes. Boom tubes are always the answer.
AMiataCalledSteve said:I'm gonna say boom tubes. Boom tubes are always the answer.
I was going to suggest the same! Does anyone use SpinTech mufflers anymore? Back when I had my Fox body, everyone was running Flowmasters and I wanted something different. I wanted to use Spintechs but couldn't afford them. I ended up using Flowtech Warlock mufflers with the bypass cap.
stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:AMiataCalledSteve said:I'm gonna say boom tubes. Boom tubes are always the answer.
I was going to suggest the same! Does anyone use SpinTech mufflers anymore? Back when I had my Fox body, everyone was running Flowmasters and I wanted something different. I wanted to use Spintechs but couldn't afford them. I ended up using Flowtech Warlock mufflers with the bypass cap.
Yes, I'll amend my earlier statement to say Spintechs sound great, too. I had a set on my last Fox body and loved them with a BBK X-pipe.
Still, I never found Flowmasters to be all that obnoxious, but back in the day, they had "3 chamber" and "2 chamber" models, and the 3 chambers were quieter, so that's what I bought. No idea how those translate to the modern Flowmaster models.
My first car was a 1987 Mustang LX 5.0. The only mod I ever did on the car was add Flowmasters. It sounded absolutely amazing. Not terribly loud, but perfect.
Best is very subjective.
I personally love the sound of straight thru mufflers on a 5.0..
But its hard to deny the "classic" sound of chambered mufflers on a 5.0
Haven't heard SpinTechs on a 5.0 but they sure sound sweet on a 4.6 mod. Not crazy loud and yet very throaty.
Flowmasters produced sounds but it equated to no more power because it just stagnates the air with all the misdirection from the chambers.
Personally, I had the best sound, Mac equal length shorties, that loved to burn spark plug boots, off road bassani X-pipe, into dumped dynomax bullets all in 2.5".
Spintechs make my ears bleed from their horrible sound.
I have a mostly stock 289 (other than an aftermarket carb/intake) and I'd imagine that exhaust-wise it's pretty similar right down to the cast iron manifolds and a small y merge to a single muffler.
I ran a Dynomax straight through muffler for a bunch of years and it was cheap and had a nice throaty tone to it, even on a stock cam. It sounded best to me when idling and cruising around but I do think it was high-pitched when you were on the throttle. That's to be expected on a smaller motor so for the best of both worlds I'd pair it with a small glass pack muffler to act as a resonator and mellow things out a bit.
In your case the stock cat may also moderate the sound a bit. I'd go for it, it's cheap and easy!
In reply to jerrysarcastic (dork in training) :
This truck will most likely never see any kind of rpms near redline so I don't think it would matter much if the exhaust didn't sound good up top. The sound at cruising and idle is what is important so perhaps a dynomax would be good.
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