Straight Pipe Woes

i like straights, had them on a couple of trucks. but, with the mufflers you can buy now , you are gaining nothing but trouble by running them. look at all the towns that have no jake signs out now. when a truck came from the factory it meet fed noise limits with THE JAKES ON. now some local yocal metro swat team wannabe is sitting behind bushes waiting to lighten your wallet to the tune of a couple hundred bucks because of all the exhaust engineers. i'm a gearhead and horsepower junkie so don't take this out of context. free advice and worth every penny. johnny

 

If you like them then run them. What I am curious about is this..if you cant afford $125 for a cheap muffler what do you do when you need brakes, or tires, or oil change, or annual DOT inspection, or for the times when stuff needs repair that breaks on the spur of the moment?

 

YOu can still run straights, you just have to stuff a muffler up under the truck somewhere. Thats what I did. I need to go buy a new one, for I think the baffle blew out years ago...

 

I see it like this, keep those muffs on, when DOT inspects that truck and everything is legal, there is nothing said. Keep the straight pipes on the motorcycles!!! I rather hear a loud motorcycle going past me and i can see him or her than to change lanes and not see the motorcycle and its using those stock muffs to keep it quiet.

 

I love straight loud pipes. Although I'm only 26 so as I get older it could change. I have to agree though some people just have them to be a bad ##### pulling into the ts with the jakes on catching peoples attention. They look like idiots, Save it for the roads when its necessary

 

If you look in your truck somewhere you will find a sticker that says the truck was engineered, for the federal regulation that the noise level is below 92 decibels.
I realise that some like to blame everything on Obama, how about you just keep it to the facts. The 92 decibel law has been out for a very long time. You can put any kind of exhaust on it you want, if it generates more than 92 decibels it is a fail. California use to have sections along the road, and would fine and refuse entry for loud units, and that includes the engine noise, tires, anything.

 

When was the last time you priced a muffler? I just bought one yesterday for $68.00 brand new at Truckpro.

Now I wish I was doing a brake job.... Brakes are so much easier to change then a #### muffler... At least in my case it seems like that.

 

I understand. Try to learn to lie better, next time tell the old geezer it was like that when you got it or something. :smt003

 

Way to many motorcycles have a terrible sound, and to think, the motorcycle will run and perform better, get better gas mileage with its muffler as is.

I love trucks, but some of them sound sick with their loud exhaust, the other day down below my house a 18 wheeler turned on the main highway from a secondary road that comes up the hill by my house, strait pipes, Jake brake, and with each shift it sounded sick and I hated the racket he was making. Why make that terrible sound, plus its extra wear and tear on your truck and or your bosses truck. Who knows, when you tear that one up, or wear it out, the next one might be worse than that the one you now have.

With strait pipes you sure can tell the cowboys and show offs from the real truck drivers.