F53 (2004) Test, Interesting.
Wanted to share... I have been reading on the ford truck forums how restrictive the exhaust system is on the F53 V10 chassis so I decided to do an experiment. I added the programming from 5 star la...
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Yes, Magnaflow. straight through perforated pipe is going to be the most like any open pipe as you can get. There are all kinds of tricks manufacturers have tried to pull, with some working to various degrees, but nothing will compare to a straight through muffler. I tried a coupe of different Flowmasters, which had measured performance loss - the 70 series killed my fuel mileage and were still noisy. Lost 10% on my zero to sixty times. My experiments were with no other changes other than mufflers. (although I did some tuning attempts to try to "fix" the Flowmasters based on their ignorant customer assistance recommendations)
BTW:The older V10 is well known to have breathing issues. One indicator is if you look on the Banks website, you can see their test results, which are substantial for the older V10. In contrast, the newer V10 does not gain much.
BTW:The older V10 is well known to have breathing issues. One indicator is if you look on the Banks website, you can see their test results, which are substantial for the older V10. In contrast, the newer V10 does not gain much.
