glass pack question

[Ramher]

i got an 00 ram 2500 with gibson dual exhaust out the back..i want to put sum glasspacks on it.. i heard if u still have the cats on the glasspacks wont sound like a true glasspack? but i dnt want to get into guttin the cats. any suggestions? and im gunan be running the glasspacks with the gibson pipes?

[Identity Crisis]

huked on fonics?

What do you want them to sound like? They'll be louder without the cats, sure, but definitely more obnoxious, too. Personally I think they'd be plenty loud and sound good with cats, but to each his own. Someone else might not think it's loud enough. Where are your pipes exiting, too? if you have them dumped underneath it's going to sound a lot louder in the cab than it will if you run them out the back.

[RootBreaker]

Quote:On 2008-05-20 06:11, Identity Crisis wrote:
if you have them dumped underneath it's going to sound a lot louder in the cab than it will if you run them out the back.

yeah that is how mine is and it is annoying.. I just dont feel like paying to have the pipes extended..

they are 12" past the cab and totally legal in NJ... go figure...

it is loud and sounds like crap echoing under the bed....

[Dirty Dog]

Leave the cats alone. You will make more power AND screw up the air less.

If you like the sound of asspacks, and want it loud, then just dump the exhaust under the bed. The closer to the cab, the louder it will be in the cab. I would never use asspacks, but my Dodge and Wrangler are both dumped right behind the rear axle. Loud, but since I use quality chambered mufflers they're not annoying, and certainly sound a lot better than asspacks. And I do not dump them to make them louder. I dump them because the pipes coming out under the rear bumper just get squished on the rocks.

[ZacD]

*sspacks.

Durn man, whadda ya mean it's not 1975?

[Ramher]

I want it to louder than it is now. I like the way the glass packs sound. although, i don't want my truck to sound like one of them old hooptie straight piped trucks coming down the road sounding like its going to fall apart. the pipes exit straight out that back and i want to keep it that way i just want to change the muffler or add stuff on to make it louder without messing with the cats

[Mikeg1005]

Just cut your muffler off...see how you like it.. stock dodges w/ stock cats and no mufflers sound pretty good.. basically the same volume as my 10 series except a different tone.

MIke.

[bigkuntry72]

yea what he said. they have a nice tone, and dont have that rappy sound like every Z71 with straight pipes. i dont care for glasspacks myself. im real happy with my hooker aero chambers.

[delta186]

I have a 2001 with a 360 engine. I cut off my stock muffler and ran straight pipes until I finally got a flowmaster stage 2. I have to agree that running straight pipes sounds good. I getting ready to put some gibson headers on for a better sound and more horsepower.

Hope this helps,