Dodge Ram 1500 Open Header Driving

[chieftain2012]

Great way to piss off the neighbors :)

[95ram1500]

I miss mine when it was like that. Although mina was louder for some reason. Prob just hard to hear the roar through a video. Low end sucked but top end power was great. It did drive a bit rough so I put exhaust on after two weeeks. nice vid man.

[REVERENDSPECTER]

hahahahahaha my tac sticks too!!!!!

[khammett12]

yup sometimes you just gotta whach it you know what i mean

[gohomeimigrants]

Good thing all the neighbors had some shitty old cars. Can you imagine if those were all fitted with car alarms? We wouldnt even be able to hear the open headers lol. I tried this im my 2005 nissan titan, my cousin and I drove around 4pm down the busiest street. Very bad looks from everyone on the road,

[hemiman91]

actually the kid is right open headers may not bend valves but running a motor just bare block with absolutely 0 exhaust when the exhaust gases push out they create a vacuam that will draw air in and that cold air hiting your extremely hot valves can bend them doesnt happen on dragsters because a: its not a common problem, they are rebuilt frequently, and headers are still enough exhaust to cut the chances of this happening and B: they idle at a shit ton of rpms usually

[slipknot12390]

Hey my bad about the second comment but is that the 318 or no jw

[slipknot12390]

What else is done becides the open headers like any motor work jw because that thing sounds beautifully

[DirtyMcArthur]

Fuck yeah, I had a 99' 1500 318 that sounded so badass when I took the muffler off and left it bare. I couldn't help put punch it every time I got to a stop sign lol I miss that thing

[RidX4Ricers]

Damn that sounds good.

[new50kid]

i put long tubes on my 5.9 lifted ram and ran open headers for that day till my high flow cats came in. talk about some loud stuff. haha fun but didnt last long where i live

[Lvdirtfreaks]

Sounds good man, i and running my 5.2 the same way you did. sounds good tho. But does it damage anything?

[ColtonORRules]

just makin sure, ur check engine lights only on cuz thers no cat right?

[erad5]

sounds beast

[Nesto131]

Thumbs up for hitting the dash.

[mossbergtakedown]

i did this and i got pulled over, but now i got a high flow direct fit cat with a flowmaster and its amazing

[318dodgeN350camaro]

360??

[1971sbc]

that thing is nice!!!

[ohforfacksakes]

the only way you will hurt your motor because of lack of an exhaust is if you run nothing at all... as in straight out of the block, and who would do that?

[darkmp40]

where'd you get your gauge cluster? i want one for my truck

[Devildodge69]

it depends on the CI of the motor anything above 400 u should be ok it just hurts the backpressure witch hurts about 10-30 horses

[RamThisDTO]

Actually the open headers give you more HP they cut back on torque. unfortunately with exhaust there's never a perfect world you have to give somewhere to gain, just have to figure out the balance that suits you.

[SuBN01z3RaT]

@Devildodge69 it just moves your power band around now with a stock cam it can hurt alot but if the motor is built to rev to 8 or 9 it will help way more

[alois206]

open headers arent that bad at least for short periods of time

[xnitsua03x]

You'll blow your lifters with open headers man.

[corndog755]

i thought i wuld like suck a valve up or something??? and mistime your exhaust output

[RamThisDTO]

Um, no, the lifters have nothing to do with it???? Open headers will not hurt anything at all there is way more than enough tubing between the exhaust valves and the open air that they would be perfectly save, plus the collector has four pulses coming through it really hard for air to back up through that. If open headers were detrimental then dragsters with zoomies would be impossible.....

[1997DodgeRam360]

@RamThisDTO I think he ment "you'll suck a valve" but that's only with manifolds.

[grizzlysnuffdiper]

lol i have to wack the dash to make my tach wort to

[kornkyd09]

Very nice sounding. I plan on trading my Jeep in for a 99 Dodge Ram 1500 ext. cab, and with my Jeep sounding as good as it does w/o a muffler, I may just do the same thing to the Dodge. I'll leave the converter on, but it sounds nice minus a muffler :)

[racin2000jason]

@kornkyd09

i ran open converter on mine and it got shit for gas mileage cause of the check engine light

[RamThisDTO]

Convertor wont change your fuel mileage, it's DOWNSTREAM of your O2 sensor. Most likely your O2 sensor was damaged by the guy who gutted your cat. Before all my mods, with 4.10's and open convertor the truck got about 14 mpg, up from 12 with the stock convertor and 3.55's.

[asssface2000]

@RamThisDTO you fucking retard, these trucks have 2 O2 sensors, one before and one after the cat, thats why they run worse when you punch out or remove the cat. you fucking NOOB.

[CSXtrackworker]

dude, seriously not good for your motor my friend. I hope you didnt do this too much!

[amermuscle]

whats not good for it lol

[CSXtrackworker]

Motor wasn't designed for open header driveing.. Keep running it like this, and you can burn out a valve. Why you can see a check engine light on.

[amermuscle]

check out my dodge videos i drive open headers and love it ,

[CSXtrackworker]

The truck in this vid seems like a nice truck... I would never do this with my truck.. Hate to see people fuck up good truck's. I drive a silverado, but I like ford's& dodges too.

[Spywell]

Sounds like a tricked out 360!

[quadrupletriple]

That's how god must sound like :D

[YPUK0PALMY]

Hahahaha DODGE QUALITY!

[dodge2289]

wut exactly is open header driving?? is it where u put headers on.. with nothing else no exhaust or anything just headers or what?

[75Maro350]

nah, you dissconnect the exhaust, just leaving the headers attatched to the heads of the engine. so the exhaust doesnt go into any of the system, except the headers.

[Hysjulien69]

just headers thats all

[KevyTheWearBear]

i love how you make the tack work ... god i love it

and you need to check your engine mate

[1977F150408]

Its just because the headers are off

[JudgeSteelflax]

what do you do? just take all the bolts off of the manifold?

[scottyfixit]

beautiful to my ears!

[bgpmp16]

nice i did the same thing with mine when i did my exhaust but no this isnt a hemi not new enough just the good ol 5.9 360 ....... i hope thats where its at anyways lol but looking to sell mine in favor of the 5.9 359 CUMMINS YYYYEEEAAAAHHHHHH still its the best gas engine ever man props sounds like mine aka great

[trigerbenslayer333]

@bgpmp16 dude cummins is deisel

[bgpmp16]

no shit einstien meybe i would take you a little more serious if you even knew that diesel is spelled diesel dduuuurrrrrr damn your dumb i work on cummins all day long you think i dont know their diesel

[asims8732]

i was goin to run a guted cat and a flowmaster 40 series muffler do u think my truck would run right???

[peepeeskillz]

will need to disable ur rear o2 sensor

[R4MMV8SRT10]

that thing is a hemi right?

[BaseballBigE]

thats how to piss off a neighber! lmao. i just did this to my truck tonight and took it out for a test drive at 11;30 at night...i was scared someone was gonna complain...it was so loud....and on the freeway, my ears were ringin

[bcatz454]

sounds like a marine engine!

[madv8mods]

thats how a truck should sound beautiful!

[alstoy09]

trucks are for guys with small dicks trying to compensate

[WankyMcSpoodge]

What do you drive, big boy?

[alstoy09]

your mom and an acura tl type s

[alstoy09]

2007

[WankyMcSpoodge]

Fuck your mother...that's a girl's car. My truck would plow right through your tin can yuppie car, and not even need to downshift.

[alstoy09]

but im the one plowing through ur mom in my "yuppie car"

[WankyMcSpoodge]

I get it.... in a weird, Freudian sense.. Your feminine car is a vagina, and you are the "dick" inside! BRILLIANT!

[alstoy09]

no u got it all wrong ur mom has the vagina and im putting my dick inside of her, and btw ill get better chicks in my car then u picking up hoodrats in ur truck. if u even have one. ohh and just so u know i have a chevy silverado for construction... sooo fuck off wankymcfaggot.

[WankyMcSpoodge]

You come on here talking about small penises then call ME a faggot? LOL.

[alstoy09]

whats your point?

[WankyMcSpoodge]

Because, moron... you seem to be infatuated with penises. I bet you are gay as semen on a mustache! LOL

[WankyMcSpoodge]

You little peter-puffer....driving around in your girlie car looking for guys LOL

[alstoy09]

oh man just ask your mom im not gay she loves puffin on my peter. i bet you would buy one the day u could afford one

[WankyMcSpoodge]

So how was you able to afford your yuppie car? Gettin' paid for blow jobs you little fairy-duster?

[johndeere330]

dude did ya not see that lady on the side of the road.

Love the truck!!

[milesdude1]

That sounds badass. Whats your setup

[challengerdodge]

that truck is awesome man i love the sound of it

[aldomanbox]

YEEAAAH!!! hahahah that's sucha man's truck!!! WHACK THE DASH TO MAKE IT WORK!!!! awesome!!! would be better for starting the engine!!!! nice sound!!!

[grizzly700dude]

i drive a ford but my dad just got a new 09 dodge and thats a great truck i like fords and dodge dont hate me though

[BiggRobb1001]

Yea, I will man. I have 2003 Blue Quad cab and I was wanting to put a cut out on, and I was wanting to find someone who is currently using some KRC parts..... I'll swing by if it's nice this weekend.

[BiggRobb1001]

you know what's funny, out of all the videos on youtube, I pick this one and right at the end of it, you pass the apts where I live....how freaking funny is that....truck sounds good too....

[RamThisDTO]

Ha you're shittin me!! Yeah I live right back here first from the corner by the park. Stop by sometime if you see me out in the garage, if the weather's nice in the next couple weeks I'll be out pulling the engine out of that truck.

[Theos92vr4]

Have fun with your transmission

[RamThisDTO]

I've had tons of fun with all three transmissions in that truck. Thanks!! Ive had just as much fun with both transmissions in my 2000 Ram. Yay me!

[ahhGroovymangroovy]

lol @ real Truck, If you dont have a Dodge You dont have Much, Ill tell ya.. Excellent Hp and Torque Straight out of the Factory..

[kelly6580]

get a real truck like mine

[bpshunter]

i'd like to see yours run with this lol

[kelly6580]

i bet it can

tell me the specs of your truck and ill let you know

[RamThisDTO]

If you have a ford or a chevy you dont even have a real truck to begin with!

12.3 CR, Ross Forged Pistons, Bored .030 over, 2.02 R/T heads race ported, Comp Cams Magnum roller rockers and Hardened pushrods, Internally balance to 7K RPM, Melling HV oil pump, double roller timing chain, M-1 Intake with 58MM Hughes CNC TB, FMS 24lb Injectors, B&G flash, MSD6AL and Blaster SS, Mopar Tri-Y headers, 4.10's, Detroit Locker, probably stuff im forgetting......

[kelly6580]

hey man dodge is really the worst truck ever go look it up

unless you put money into it

[RamThisDTO]

Yeah, um, your mom is calling, When you get into high school and get a job to afford a vehicle, holler back, k?

[kelly6580]

i am in high school and i have a truck so fuck off

[RamThisDTO]

Ahh that explains why you're a spoiled brat. I was close, but you're even older than your maturity level so that just makes it worse. One day you'll grow up and understand. Now go do your homework and take out the trash youngen lol.

[AmericanBadAss414]

wait, i'm in high school and i got a truck, but i worked for my shit. lol awsome truck though lol what kind of mods do you have?

[RamThisDTO]

Good to hear! I was in HS and worked full time and had a brand new truck that I bought myself. Most of my friends didnt care and either drove old shitboxes or their parents bought them some fancy hot rod. They all trashed their cars since they didnt care about them. Mine was traded in, in better condition than when I bought it new lol. Mods on this truck are extensive, check my other videos, the Compilation Video has a rollup text of the mods that truck has....

BTW Thanks!

[moremountaindew]

I love the tach, hahaha

[CTDiesel24]

i love this truck.. i have a 94 ram and i was wondering how much you payed for yor cam because i seen them for like $300 some computer balanced?? i wasent sure if i could run a normal 360 cam.

[2Dodgeram]

Woah! sounded freakin awsome when you turned right and put the hammer down!

[detroitmuscle66]

5.2 or 5.9?

[chasefoundnemo]

HAHA thats funny ur Tach does the same as mine, i thought i was the only one.. ya bro!

[slclarries14]

are u running a cat if not how to you by pass it so the light doesnt come on

[RamThisDTO]

No cat. I did nothing to bypass it just left the cat out of the exhaust. The PCM is pretty forgiving it usually doesnt even notice. I have no cats on my 2000 either and get no check engine light. O2 sensors are still mounted in the exhaust right where they were before.

[Solarfi]

bet your neighbors love you.

[RamThisDTO]

Luckily I have great neighbors. I constantly ask them if I ever bother them with too much noise and they said not in the least. Only one neighbor has ever said anything once but that was before they got to know us. Now they come hang out and talk to us and such though they're not into hot rods lol.

[84chevyc10]

Man I gotta tell you Im a Chevrolet guy but this sounds and looks fucking amazing. Awesome video man, 5 stars.

[RamThisDTO]

Thanks!!

[Hampton318]

What's that light shinin from the tach??

[RamThisDTO]

Check Engine Light

Reason: PCM dont like that fat cam!! (showing multiple misfire code)

[AmericanAirlinesRule]

Wow, that truck sounds great.

[RamThisDTO]

Thanks.

[kmk408ci]

you n need to glue those white gauge overlays down when you install them, thats why the tach sticks

[RamThisDTO]

Those are actually replacement faces, from NRAuto, not overlays. The guage initially does not respond now because there is a bad contact in one of the connection pins behind the cluster, as far as I can tell, not a friction interference with the face plate and the needle.

[raven830]

how would I do this?

[raven830]

what does it mean open headers?

[RamThisDTO]

Means no exhaust hooked up to the headers, like a dedicated drag vehicle is.  Most drag cars though use zoomies, a piece of pipe that just directs the exhaust out to the sides of the car instead of directly underneath.

[strmchsr902004]

LMFAO..i like your rpm guage in the begining. Awesome truck

[RamThisDTO]

Ha thanks. Redneck I know but it gets the job done lol

[ThaKang]

Hey since i know you know a few things that i probly dont will it be bad to just have a cutout with no headers just the stock manifolds or do you think that would somehow cause problems besides the cops ha

[RamThisDTO]

You need to put your cutout about a foot AFTER the UPSTREAM O2 sensor (sensor closest to the engine) This sensor reads the exhaust gas mixture and it controls the A/F ratio. If fresh air gets to it, the truck will richen up so bad it will wash out the cylinders with gas and ruin the rings and cylinders. You can use it with stock manifolds just make sure you place it like said, best to put it right after your catalytic convertor.

[ThaKang]

Preciate it man but yea the guy up at the shop told me about that and placed it about like u said but a little farther down the line and it sounds mean as fuck now i love it haha the first start was the best.

[RamThisDTO]

Did you get one with a removeable plate or the fancy electric type that you operate from inside the cab? Those are nice but a bit pricey. Plus too much temptation to flip that switch at a stoplight lol. I'd have the popo's on my ass in no time with my luck LOL.

[ThaKang]

O nah its one with a removable plate lol my truck is a little too low for me to be crawlin under it to put it on but screw it i can reach it if i feel i need to lol but hell yeah the cops are punks askin me if i had a muffler on my truck when i had no cutout i was like what the fuck are you talkin about i hope he hears me now haha peace.

[Cass0009]

isn't that kinda bad for ur engine?!?!

[RamThisDTO]

Not at all. As long as you have about a foot of exhaust pipe downstream of the PRE-CAT O2 sensor (so exhaust pulses don't back up and give it fresh air to read too, causing a pig rich condition) then it's just fine. The rest of the tubing on street vehicles is to dampen the noise, direct the carbon monoxide from the passenger compartment, and gives room for the catalytic convertor and muffler. Race vehicles run open headers just for zero backpressure at high RPM.

[creepyoleman]

wow rest in peace on your farm then. at least i will always have the memories of your beautiful sound. thats gonna be one nice farm truck minus the engine of course.

[RamThisDTO]

Parts of that engine will live on and be put in my 2000 Ram. If I can figure out a way to get around inspection without having to get a phony tag and risking jail time (have the truck actually get through a real inspection and get a tag) while running a 408 and standalone, I will try this again. But it's going to be my 2000 Ram. The 96 will be taken care of well with my Dad as he will barely use it anyway.

[R4MMV8SRT10]

whats another name for "headers" or are they just called "headers" and do motor bikes have them? ty

[BOLTCustoms]

hey, why is your check engine light on??? cause mine is on to. in my 1996 dodge ram indy

[RamThisDTO]

Mine's because of a multiple misfire code set by the PCM due to the big ol fat cam. Yours is probably due to a bad O2 sensor or something of the like. You need to find out what code it is, then look it up in a Haynes manual or online to see what it is first.

[Onkelflop]

great sound......

[Jasper450r]

well thats bad to run hard when not warme up

[RamThisDTO]

Meh, if it exploded I wouldnt care. Just give me more incentive to yank it out and get rid of it.

[Jasper450r]

thats true then a bigger motor

[90350Chevy]

gotta say, i love it, the cam sounds awesome

[xHxExMxIx]

that sounds amazing

[b4lti]

how much do you pay for gas on that beast?

[RamThisDTO]

Dont know, I havent really driven it in about 4 years now. Just let it rot. Thanks KRC!!!

[350AmericanMuscle]

you left it to rot??? What the hell

[L324RT12]

Your running 12:3:1 compression on pump gas? Must be some good stuff. 93+!

[RamThisDTO]

It runs on 93 Pump Gas. The key is the cam. It has alot of overlap, so the cylinder pressure stays around 150 PSI. Plus they claim they maximize the "quench" in the head pocket to stop predetonation. The timing is retarded some too in order to keep it from predetonating.

[REWYRED]

Sounds EVIL! I like it!

[kbeaton42]

nice does that have a 360 or 318 in it?

[Fnix]

Definately not the 318. Most likely a 5.6 or 5.9 liter

[RamThisDTO]

5.9L 360, bored out .030

[ohsheetjboi]

sounds like a beast man! i want to get open headers on my 04 1500, any help on what to buy?

[xmgfx101]

pretty good, but my 67 Neeble 3500 will blow your eardrums out if I pass u in high RPMs

[ttuguy1983]

that sounds awesome.

[jbyrd0861]

Love the dodges and love my Rams..The fist to the dash to make the tach work was awsome...lol Nice truck though

[RamThisDTO]

Sometimes you gotta show these Dodges who's boss, ya know? LOL.

[v8seat4bangers]

np man

[R4MMV8SRT10]

2 questions first of how many miles per galllon do get out of it and how you make it sound so throaty

[v8seat4bangers]

it sounds throaty because its open headers

[R4MMV8SRT10]

so tht explains the throatyness how would you explain the chuging sorta thing beefy bit at start the" chugga chugga chugga"

[v8seat4bangers]

thats high performance cams

[R4MMV8SRT10]

youre the best thank you (you rule)

[RamThisDTO]

It gets about 8 MPG. Runs premium only. It's a 12.3 Compression Ratio engine, with full race ported heads, a huge cam, and the video was taken with it running open headers, or no exhaust past the headers. With the large overlap on the cam, it lopes like a sonofabitch, rocks the truck side to side pretty hard.

[rowdy235]

why do you hit the dash after it starts? Just wonderin

[GaDawg270]

So the Tach comes on. It's messed up and he has to hit it to make it work.

[CalebWhetzell]

hey man whats up, me and my step dad are getting ready to build a 5.9 for his dodge pickup and i had a question about the cam.. did you have to do any computer mods or aftermarket valvesprings?

[ILUVCRAPES]

that whole time i was waiting for you to floor it but it didnt sound like you did! poop!

[RamThisDTO]

Check my other vids. I have a few where I hit WOT.

[RamThisDTO]

Cam is only the start of whats in that engine lol. It's a KRC Performance 224X cam though.  Thanks!

[amermuscle]

wi love your truck dude , you have a high performance cam in it????

[trailshredder]

hey man u got any performance parts in that or is it just stock

[lupecolts]

hey man i just wanted to ask you if your truck came stock with the rpm tach you have there.

[RamThisDTO]

If you mean the white face guages, no, they are NRAuto white face guages. There are much cooler ones available now, I bought those in 99 when white faced guages were the "new" thing lol.

[lupecolts]

no i mean the actual tach (the neddle) because my gauge does not have the the rpm, i bought one with the rpm but i may need the wires to connect them so they will be useful

[RamThisDTO]

Oh, yeah that's the stock cluster. Not sure but I think all Ram's clusters are wired for a tach, just some didnt come with one. I dont think I've ever seen a 94-01 Ram without one myself though, dont even know what a cluster looks like without a tach.... lol.

[gr3en21]

Ha. I love the Tach. Thats awesome gotta love those Dodges, it's all about knowing the tricks.

[01DodgeRam360]

lol so intense