OP
OP
Yardbird
Senior Member
I paid more attention to where and when the sound is yesterday. The sound is coming from the exhaust exit. I usually never pay attention to it until the rpms get up and I hear it.
The exhaust does have a deeper smooth sound under 2000. It is definitely muffler related. I never paid any attention to the under 2000 sound, as it is quiet and not f a r t y.
The muffler is the problem, as it is a louder muffler than most stock mufflers, and the distance between the muffler and the exit is rather long with the longer bed, and the pipe is big.
I have ran into this before with an over the road truck I had in the 70s. 318 (8v71) Detroit that the mufflers had been gutted. It was loud and sounded great. From 2100 to 2500, where it was turned up to, it would rattle the windows. That truck, and the truck I owned before it, are most likely the reason I have tinnitus now.
This is the same effect I'm getting. Ram just used a muffler that is more free flowing and big, subject to exhaust pulse noise as certain rpm.
Maybe most people don't notice it, have noise canceling in their trucks, or something. I do notice it, but will have to live with it or cut up a good exhaust system and install an ultra quiet muffler.
I'm sure this is the same muffler used on the HEMI, and they are prone to be louder. I don't see Ram spending money on a different muffler when they have one already that will fit both engines.
There used to be muffler shops everywhere around here, now, not so much.
Way back in the 90's, my '87 F-150 with a 4.9 needed a muffler. The new 1997 F150 models came out with a one year only muffler with a tailpipe that exited in front of the passenger rear tire.
I was up at the muffler shop one day and saw a new 1997 cut off complete unit there. I had it installed, front exit tailpipe and all. Loved it, no exhaust sound, no more rusty tailpipe behind the wheel, and it is still on the truck today, looking and sounding as good (ultra quiet) as it did back in 1997.
Maybe I should sneak up to my son's (who now has the truck) house and cut that muffler off the old Ford.
The exhaust does have a deeper smooth sound under 2000. It is definitely muffler related. I never paid any attention to the under 2000 sound, as it is quiet and not f a r t y.
The muffler is the problem, as it is a louder muffler than most stock mufflers, and the distance between the muffler and the exit is rather long with the longer bed, and the pipe is big.
I have ran into this before with an over the road truck I had in the 70s. 318 (8v71) Detroit that the mufflers had been gutted. It was loud and sounded great. From 2100 to 2500, where it was turned up to, it would rattle the windows. That truck, and the truck I owned before it, are most likely the reason I have tinnitus now.
This is the same effect I'm getting. Ram just used a muffler that is more free flowing and big, subject to exhaust pulse noise as certain rpm.
Maybe most people don't notice it, have noise canceling in their trucks, or something. I do notice it, but will have to live with it or cut up a good exhaust system and install an ultra quiet muffler.
I'm sure this is the same muffler used on the HEMI, and they are prone to be louder. I don't see Ram spending money on a different muffler when they have one already that will fit both engines.
There used to be muffler shops everywhere around here, now, not so much.
Way back in the 90's, my '87 F-150 with a 4.9 needed a muffler. The new 1997 F150 models came out with a one year only muffler with a tailpipe that exited in front of the passenger rear tire.
I was up at the muffler shop one day and saw a new 1997 cut off complete unit there. I had it installed, front exit tailpipe and all. Loved it, no exhaust sound, no more rusty tailpipe behind the wheel, and it is still on the truck today, looking and sounding as good (ultra quiet) as it did back in 1997.
Maybe I should sneak up to my son's (who now has the truck) house and cut that muffler off the old Ford.
