Upgrades and Aftermarket - 6.0L EngineUpgrading and adding aftermarket equipment to your 2003-Up Super Duty or Excursion with 6.0L Power Stroke diesel engine. Please confine discussion of topics in this forum to those items that are specific to the 6.0L Power Stroke engine.
I am writing this post to see what kind of aftermarket exhaust systems fellow 6.0 owners have bought. Even though I will probably catch flack for this comment, I think the Cummins with an open pipe is the most big-rig sounding like diesel. I love the sound of the 6.0 with the stock pipe but a friends cummins with an aftermarket exhaust had that deep, tractor like sound, and now I am in the market for a new exhaust. I would sure like to show him up. If anyone could recomend an exhaust system that would make the 6.0 sound more like a big rig, it would be greatly appreciated. (And save the comments about Ford making the new 6.0 quieter and that I should have known it was a quieter motor, I already know this and am trying to remedy the situation) [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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2003 excursion 6.0 Eddie Bauer Edition
Its about time someone says it right. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Im tired of all this complaining that the 6.0 isnt as quiet as its supossed to be, make that thing roar!!
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2004 F-350 Reg-Cab XLT, 4X4, SRW, 6.0 PSD, 6 speed, manual transfer case, Dark Shadow Grey, 285/75R16 Cepeck FC-II's on 16X8 Centerline wheels. built 3/23/04, 60k miles on the clock.
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Check out the DPPI sound with out the cat. Sounds like a big block with a turbin at the rear. great flow. Sounds better than a Cummings to me. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] <font color="green"> </font>
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03/04 Excursion Eddie B, White with Extra tint, Helwig rear sway bar, Centramatic continous wheel Balancers Quad Captians Seats CD/DVD Elderbrock rcs shocks Jan Flashed Bypass oil system to 1 micron
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Its about time someone says it right. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Im tired of all this complaining that the 6.0 isnt as quiet as its supossed to be, make that thing roar!!
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Me too. What a bunch of girlie men [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif[/img] (put some scratches on it too, just for testosterone effect [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img])
I just had the muffler cut off, and its nice and quiet till you roll on the throttle. But now that I've added some HP to it, it had a nice rumble all the time.
Bundo, I didn't even have 1000 miles on it when I took it into the woods to go deer hunting. came out with more than just a few scratches. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]
But then again, I didn't buy er to be a show piece, yeah doesn't look nice, but oh well [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shrug.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
If you're looking for that sound the I6 Cummins makes you cna't do it with a V8. However, you can make the V8 sound good/loud, but it's different. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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I personally think the I-6 sounds horrible, no matter which kind of aftermarket set up you run. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/vomit.gif[/img].
Put a set of dual DPPI pipes on a 6.0L and you have the best sounding diesel engine in the world.
There is no way our trucks will sound like a normal diesel as long as they go with the v-8.No matter what pipe you put on it it will always sound like a helicopter.Some people like some dont.My 97 is straight piped and at very low rpms it sounds ok at best but over 900 rpm's it starts in with that choppy sound.
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My Diesels-
07 F250 Lariat CC 4x4 6.0 PSD auto grey sirius
97 F250 XL 4x4 PSD 5spd
00 Case 580L 4x4 cab/air
03 MF 4345 4x4 cab/air Sirius/radio 1070 loader
My neighbor removed his cat, muffler and installed a dual out 3" Y just before his bed. It then splits into duals going around each side of the spare tire. It has the turbo jet howl at idle and sounds like a big block gas motor at 3/4-WOT.
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99 7.3, 02 7.3, 03 6.0, fastest 05 TDI Passat in NA now a 06 Mustang GT.
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There is no way our trucks will sound like a normal diesel as long as they go with the v-8.No matter what pipe you put on it it will always sound like a helicopter.Some people like some dont.My 97 is straight piped and at very low rpms it sounds ok at best but over 900 rpm's it starts in with that choppy sound.
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there is no flutter whatsoever no matter what exhaust system you go with on the 6.0 diesels.
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No matter what pipe you put on it it will always sound like a helicopter
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Not so, with the 6.0 (hey that rhymes!!!!). I straight piped my truck and while it doesn't have that rumble of a 4 inch system muffler, it does sound better than stock, and really sounds better than a 7.3L...No flutter at all.
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2003 F-350 Lariat 4X4 CC dually in Dark Shadow Gray metallic, 6.0L, TorqShift, truxedo low profile bed cover, rapid hitch, husky liners, fumoto drain valve, Amsoil 5W30, ProGuard 7 air intake, MBRP 304 stainless exhaust, AeroTurbine muffler, stainless steel door pulls, Edge with Attitude (the company's and mine), lighted blue oval in grille, and needing more money for more mods............
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OK, sorry for just assuming,but the 6.0 and the 7.3 are pretty similar(not in power,I drove one).I am sure I havn't heard one straight piped then,I thought I had.
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My Diesels-
07 F250 Lariat CC 4x4 6.0 PSD auto grey sirius
97 F250 XL 4x4 PSD 5spd
00 Case 580L 4x4 cab/air
03 MF 4345 4x4 cab/air Sirius/radio 1070 loader
I wish I had a means to record the sound of the neighbors straight piped 6.0 because I have possession of it all day. It sounds so good I had to crank it up for my girlfriend before she left this morning to get her response.
She's a keeper! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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99 7.3, 02 7.3, 03 6.0, fastest 05 TDI Passat in NA now a 06 Mustang GT.
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