Remove topper and add stacks?

[itsacrazyasian]

glad i had them on my f-250 before i attempted it on the scout.it looked neat and sounded great (drone on the highway was terrible! ) everytime i started it soot would cover everything!

the stacks in that video looks like he had extra exhaust pipe more than anything!

-Jon

Jon, it is just extra exhaust pipe i had around the shop. I was bored. Sounded great though.

 

[94IDIT]

pre-pubescent peterbilt! Holy crap that's funny! Yeah Although I'm not always the biggest fan of stacks just for show purposes, I do know ranchers who will run them to reduce the risk of starting a fire when driving around out in the pasture/fields. That makes good sense to me... I'm considering doing it to our beater ranch truck, with as hot and dry as the summers can be around here, I know I've been hesitant to go drive out in the pasture myself before. Especially when it's windy.

 

[redneckaggie]

really a matter of opinion. never want a set of stacks on mine just couldnt imagine the headaches after long drives with a single cab. the longer they are the lesser the drone will be but then again you have to worry about knocking them into an overhead obstacle. stacks look good on flatbeds in my opinion but that is just me....

 

[linkfarms]

my dodge has a 6inch stack and even tho i'm on the fence on rather i like it or not it sounds good and you can tell it's there but not to overally loud to me

 

[itsacrazyasian]

While i'm gonna pop my top off i'm not gonna do stacks.

My truck just looks unproportional without the cap since its been on there for so long.

 

[93cc7.3]

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i love my stacks 6 inch with all handmade 4 inch splitter piping sounds great no drone and i had them black but sanded them with 320grit and cleared for a brushed aluminum look

 

[BleednBlue68]

I love my stacks. Not too loud but not to quiet either. Just right. I have 4" turbo back MBRP smokers kit with 6" miters. Yes sometimes I wish they werent on there BUT I know I would miss them. I can adjust them up or down which is nice. I always like seein the smoke roll out of them. Mine doesnt drone much. You can still have a normal conversation like you were in a stock truck. Its got a nice low rumble to them and I can hear the turbo real good. I dont get any soot on my truck either, of course I dont have a chip yet so that might change. Im thinkn of doin a camper shell with cut outs and have the entire shell hinge towards the cab. You can make a cover for the pipe comin out of the bed easily. Next thing on my list.

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I put stacks on my 77 F250 just because I got them cheap. They are rigged badly and its just straight pipe. Its really loud. But its just my wood cuttin truck. When I restore it I wont be puttin stacks on it. But looks cool to me. Just my preference. To each his own.

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[BleednBlue68]

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i love my stacks 6 inch with all handmade 4 inch splitter piping sounds great no drone and i had them black but sanded them with 320grit and cleared for a brushed aluminum look

Great to see another truck with stacks. Looks sweet man!

 

[91idi]

I like stacks on my play truck. My 91 will never get them . My 86 is one I bought and have done many things to.

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[Diesel_brad]

No. You don't need stacks unless you have more than 2 axles. I don't usually knock anyone for setting up their truck the way they want, but there is no performance to be gained by having stacks, and in my opinion the recent fad of adding them is a bit like putting a biplane wing on the back of a 4door Civic.

It's another thing if you've had stacks since before they were "cool" or have a compelling reason for them- ie a drag truck that has them because they're required by the racetrack to keep from fogging out the timing lights with the exhaust. If you have a functional topper and a unmolested bed, don't go cutting it all up just to look cool. It'll sound just as good and run just as good with a single 4" exhaust under the bed- trust me.

Ryan

Very well put.

I had stacks in 2 of my old trucks 7 years ago, before the stack fad. There is no way in hell i would be caught dead w stack in a pickup now

 

[The Warden]

Just my $.02...

I remember a time when I wanted to put a single stack on my truck. This would have been 2001 or maybe '02, shortly after I got the truck and certainly before the "diesel-ricer" fad. I thought it'd make the truck look cool, and I always thought those caps/flaps looked cool. At the time, I couldn't afford it, so I just dreamed.

In retrospect, I'm glad I never did it. As others have said, you have a real problem with getting soot all over anything in the bed or whatever you're towing. Also, you lose that much bed space...particularly if you have a toolbox in the bed like I do, once you get a stack in the bed and mount a toolbox safely behind it, you've got a fair amount of effectively unusable space in the bed....and, with the multi-purpose role my truck plays, I need all the bed space I can get! To me, external stacks on a truck with a pickup bed looks tacky (although it can work well with the correct flat-bed or utility bed)...and, on a personal note, I don't much like the idea of being stereotyped in with the "diesel-ricer" crowd, which is yet another reason for me to not want to go that route. Lastly, I'm concerned about potential noise in the cab. I'm not afraid of a straight-pipe exhaust system (I haven't had a muffler on my truck since 2004), but I want to do what I can to get the cab as quiet as reasonably possible. I've been spoiled by all that time sitting behind the wheel of a Lincoln Town Car

So much for my rant....I guess the short version is, I agree with what Ryan (reklund) posted. As I understood it, opinions were asked for, and there's mine

 

[93cc7.3]

Great to see another truck with stacks. Looks sweet man!

Thanks its a. Very slow work in progress

 

[BleednBlue68]

Yea I dont have a lot of bed space with my stacks, especially since its a shortbed. I can still put my brute force 750 atv in the back with the tail gate closed and thats all that matters. I still fill my truck with wood no probs. I have melted stuff I've had in my bed when they touch my pipes in the back. Other than that I like them and thats what matters. Everyone can put me in a particular catergory I dont care. They sound great, look cool, and love the smoke comin out of them.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

Several have commented about stacks causing soot to dirty up stuff.

With stacks mounted and the tips oriented such as those on my truck, they actually prevent a soot problem.

I NEVER see ( nor find all over my clothes after getting against anything ) any soot on my truck or any of the trailers I pull.

However, when using any of the stackless trucks, the front and exhaust sides of whatever trailer, get covered with soot.

A load of clean Charolais cattle will look like a bunch of mouse-backed Angus-cross after being hauled in an open-air trailer behind a stackless diesel truck; especially one with a "chip".


A long forgotten law dictates the required use of exhaust stacks that angle up and outward on any truck, gas or diesel, big or little, that hauls livestock in a trailer.


Has anyone ever ridden in a trailer behind a gas-burner and been near carbon-monoxided to death ?? : I can sympathise with the livestock.

 

[BleednBlue68]

Several have commented about stacks causing soot to dirty up stuff.

With stacks mounted and the tips oriented such as those on my truck, they actually prevent a soot problem.

I NEVER see ( nor find all over my clothes after getting against anything ) any soot on my truck or any of the trailers I pull.

However, when using any of the stackless trucks, the front and exhaust sides of whatever trailer, get covered with soot.

A load of clean Charolais cattle will look like a bunch of mouse-backed Angus-cross after being hauled in an open-air trailer behind a stackless diesel truck; especially one with a "chip".


A long forgotten law dictates the required use of exhaust stacks that angle up and outward on any truck, gas or diesel, big or little, that hauls livestock in a trailer.


Has anyone ever ridden in a trailer behind a gas-burner and been near carbon-monoxided to death ?? : I can sympathise with the livestock.

Makes sense. My truck is white and I've never seen any blackness on my truck. I can see where side exits or rear exhaust would soot up your paint. Thats funny about the cows. I see why on the big semis why the stacks are soo high.