I am wanting to make my own straight pipe setup that will exit in front of the rear wheel. I want to make it connect with a clamp because I can't weld, and I want to be able to switch between it and my stock setup when I want to. I cannot find anybody around town that stocks 4" pipe and turns and whatnot.

I know some of you have make your own side exit exhaust. Can y'all please tell me where to get the parts I need? Also, how exactly have y'all done it? Pics would be great! Thanks!

 

Any pics of either DIY setups, or something you had a professional do would be great. I really am not sure what the best setup would be.

 

I have seen them on a truck or 2 and dont care for them on a 2nd gen. You have to route the exhaust under the frame, so it hangs down, and you will have to clean your tire/wheel often as a result of the soot.

Run it out the back.

 

Where is the cheapest 4" kit either out the back or side dump that I can get? It needs to be bolt on.

 

I just finished it today...Painted the pipe black... 3" factory turbo pipe into a flowmaster muffler, 4" exit...sounds nice... I did some cutting and welding though..

 

I got all my stuff at napa auto parts. I pounched out the cat and used that to go from 3 to 4 inch. I got a piece of 4" flex and and put a 5inch tip on the end of that. I used a band clamp to attach the flex to the cat and a 4" U clamp to hang it with for support. I attacthed the tip with screws. Its not the best exhaust but it works and doesn't look have bad. But I do have to clean my tire. I am not keeping it that way. But its a cheap side pipe.

 

Can y'all post up pictures of your setups under the truck please? Thanks!

 

No problem but I'll have to post it tomorrow its dark and raining tonite

 

Thanks. Why don't people like using flex pipe permanently? I see it on big rigs all the time?

 

I don't have a problem using it. I just used it because it was easy and it was available at the time. I am saving for 4'' all the way exiting behind the wheel. Some guys use it when the put stacks in there truck because they fasten them to the bed and when you do that you need a spot to flex.

 

I had a side dump exhaust and I liked it for awhile, but my wheel was dull after a couple drives after u wash it. Do a full 4" straight pipe from the bottom of the DP and get somthing like a 5 or 6" tip i think u'll like it, plus me towing with the straight pipe side dump was kinda loud with the passenger window down (more than the stack for reference). I made two side dumps out of the stock exhaust, one with the muffler and one without, so u could do that, but u also said u wanted to swap back to the stock, so i dunno. It gets expensive to piece together tube and bends if u dont weld or cut stuff.

my stack has no flex pipe, i'll put a piece in though to take any load off the DP flange eventually, but I figure the amout the bed flexes will be absorbed in the different clamp connections I have before anything happens.

 

Be careful with your exhaust temps. I had a '99 with Cummins plastic rear mudflaps and the right side melted a corner from hot exhaust. Be sure your tire is not in the way....

 

When i first got my truck, there was no exhaust after the down pipe. I went to the local big rig shop and bought a 3 ID inch adopter to 4 ID inch adapter and at least 5 feet of 4 inch pipe and a 4 inch 90 degree turn. I recently put a 4 inch downpipe on and put 4 inch IN sleeve between the downpipe and exhaust. It blacks my wheel and tire quick. I am not a fan of that. So I added a longer section of pipe on the end of the 90 degree elbow to kick out the smoke past the tire a little more. Still back, just not as back. I don't have a muffler, but I LOVE THE SOUND!

 

I did cut the five foot pipe down some and used the other piece on the kick out side. I used regular exhaust pipe hangers when i first put it up there. I also used 4 inch exhaust band clamps cause they looked better.(well dad didn't need them for his powerstroke HAHA)

 

mine is 3" downpipe with a 3"-4" then a 4"-5", then 5" pipe to the front of the wheel, a 5" 90 degree bend and about another foot of pipe. no tip for me, just plain 5" all the way!