This WOKE UP my 5.0 F150!!!! | SHE RIPS

What’S up guys welcome back to another F1 video, so after a long 2 months of waiting, it’s finally time to install our SPD performance high flow midpipe on our 245 l n you’ve been subscribed to this channel for any amount of time. You know that we have done a ton of different exhaust setups but believe it or not. I’Ve never installed high flow cats. Now this was very expensive, like borderline premium brand long tubes expensive, but I am hoping to see similar results as doing headers with a much much simpler, install because from my experience, Ford manifolds flow super good. You just just got to uncork the rest of the exhaust, and so I’m hoping for some big results, performance and soundwise out of this midpipe.

So let’s go ahead, unbox her and check out just how freaking gorgeous this thing is. I mean it looks super super good. Cannot wait to throw it on the truck, so new wipipe high flow cat got a flex pipe on. I don’t know if it’s driver or passenger going to connect with a vband on one slip on the other, and then this should connect directly to our corset, extreme, which I’m hoping by the end of this video actually sounds extreme, because currently it’s like corsello, at least Like maybe in my skewed perspective of floud trucks, because everything is stupidly loud, it’s pretty freaking quiet so, like I said, I’m hoping for some pretty decent performance Improvement, like actual feel the difference while driving and obviously the sound should be dramatically improved. So, like I said, got my hopes High.
Let’S hope I don’t get let down. Let’S go ahead, get one final start up on the factory cats. Get this thing up to the house get to installing got the truck pulled up on some ramps. Hopefully, give us enough clearance to get everything out. Jack stands underneath first thing we want to do is go ahead and disconnect our negative terminal.

We are going to be messing around down there by the starter. The last thing you want to do is cause some kind of short, so let me grab a 10 Mill pop this guy off and make sure you set your parking brake before doing this. We’Re going to start by disconnecting our cap back. It’S a 13 mil. Now we got to disconnect our crossover pipe.
It’S a 15 mil and thanks to Ford for putting the bolt up instead of down, it is probably going to be a royal pain in the butt we’ll get it free. Now we got two 15, Ms holding the midpipe onto the manifolds. Now, of course, on the passenger side, we got a O2 sensor Block in our way, so we’re going to go ahead and pull that guy out and then that’ll give us access to those two nuts. You got two O2 sensors on each side, one above the cat. One on the cat, which this guy holds a ton of heat, so be careful not to burn yourself like I just did, but it’s a 78 I was able to crack them free and then this guy gu is totally loose this guy up here, I didn’t have Enough room, I was hitting the cat or I was hitting the transmission, so I was able to use a 156 which had a little bit of play, but since it was broken loose uh there was no worry of stripping it and that got it to where I Could rotate it, and now I can get it out by my hand, so we’ll just go ahead and spin.

These guys, all the way out be nice and careful with them. We’Ll just ease her down right here and make sure we don’t hang up on it when we’re pulling the exhaust out. So now we might need to use a flex pipe or uh a little flexx adapter, but we should be able to pull those two guys out. Now and just FYI, the driver’s side is even more fun than the passenger, but I was able to get them out, went above the drive, shaft up front and then below over here, and once you crack them free, you can spin them out real easy. Well, now that we got it disconnected, I think what we want to do is go back and then forward.
I’M not sure. If we’re going to have to draw off the crossmember, it’s looking a little suspect it’s 236s holding the transmission to the cross member. Now we’re going to go ahead and support it with the Jack. I’Ve got some wood on it. We’Re going to use the transfer case right here.

I feel like that’s the safest spot, so we’ll go ahead and just apply pressure. Get it up off of here. Just to smidge then we’ll bust, this guy loose drop it down. It’S going to be an 18 mil and a 15 mil . Now there is a heat shield connected to this, so might have to pop that guy free too, so that it doesn’t hit the exhaust when we drop it down yep, it is a 10.
Hopefully this doesn’t just come crashing down all right. Let’S try to. Oh, we got some heat shields stuck on there. So will she come out like that, we’re going to try taking the bolt out of this hanger? Ah, okay, okay, this outside piece is going to come off.

Just like that. Oh baby, she is free, she’s out, finally got the factory midpipe out about to throw in our new SPD. Hopefully it goes in a little bit smoother than this. One did honestly not not the worst thing ever, but pretty annoying just having to figure out exactly what to tweak in order to get to drop out of there, but uh she’s out the cat with the flex pipe goes on the driver side. So we’re going to start by getting it up into place, let’s go ahead and get the passenger side lined up.
Oh, I’m just tripping all right all right, there’s the key all right, so you just got to push the crap out of it with your knee push that heat shield up to where you can get it on now we can bolt this C down once we get This guy into place at least get our vband connected. We’Re not tighten it all the way up, we’re just getting it snug all right. That’S just holding the two pipes together, she’s still loose, so I’m going to play around with this thing for a bit get everything where it seems to be the happiest tighten down the cats. Tighten this guy down, put our O2 sensors back in there and then I’ll catch up with y’all for the C back, I’m running super late to baseball, so I didn’t film it, but I got the crossmember back into place. Tightened it down got that clamp on tighten the VB band, got our bolts up top tight.

We still got to do the heat shield bolts and that driver side alignment pin the little bracket that clamps it together got to put that on then it’ll be ready to put the cat back on and then crank this thing up and do the Breakin procedure of These cats, you do have to do a couple, different steps in order for the truck to be happy and those cats to break in properly. So I guess I’ll catch up with y’all first thing in the morning, we’ll get the rest of it knocked out all right guys. It is 6:00 in the morning and we got to get this knocked out before work, so we’re going to go ahead and loosen the Corsa. Muffler drop it down, get it l up with our new Y pipe and then I’m going to go back and tighten everything up. I understand you’re Rusty but turn loose.
I tell you what those skip plates are no joke, so we officially offered our blood sacrifice and now it is time to actually crank this truck for the very first time and do our convert Brak in so it says to start the engine, but do not rev Engine idle and allow engine to come up to operating temp after 10 minutes increase the engine speed to 2500 rpm hold it 2500 rpm for 2 minutes allow engine to cool down, Drive Lightly for 5 minutes before any watt. So we’re going to go ahead and crank. It let it run for 10 minutes and then we’ll hold it at 2500 RPMs for 2 minutes turn it off. Let it cool down all the way and then we’ll go drive it for 5 minutes, just normal low, RPM driving, and then she should be ready, so we just left the house, and now we got to drive for 5 minutes being under control.

Light throttle input just letting those cats get all the way up to Temp broking in let the truck learn hey. Maybe we got a little bit more flow going out, adjust for that, and then it says after 5 minutes you can do whatever. So we just going to cruise to work, let her kind of think about it. We do, unfortunately, have a driver side exhaust leak where the manifold beats the c pipe, which really freaking sucks. I adjusted all different ways trying to loosen it adjust, tighten loosen it adjust, tighten it keeps puffing off at different sides, so I’m hoping that it just figures out where it’s wanted to be and it seals uh.

While we drive, I don’t hear, hear it, but when it, when you crank it on the cold start, you can hear it. I got under there and I could feel it so we’ll just have to see if that ends up ceiling and then once we get back home, we’ll we’ll retorque everything and hopefully that will fix the issue and there’s not any kind of outer round problem cuz. That would be extremely unfortunate. Do a little half throttle right here – oh my God. Hopefully the wind didn’t wreck y’all considerably louder for sure that was like what 3500 4,000 RPMs considerably louder.

definitely feel it is so much louder and that freaking ripped holy crap. It’S way, freaking louder, that’s 3,000, RPMs fastest we’ve gone on the streets of Mexico is 858. Let’S see how she’ll do 30  60 qu mile all right holy crap dude it launched like it’s never launched before that initial hit was so much better. Typically, it’s a little laggy right off the front. Half mile eight 34, let’s freaking, go when I was installing this.
I was thinking hey if it does actually flow better, that might make the engine more efficient and make our fuel economy a little bit better. So I reset our trip right after installing the high flows, and that was at like 19.6 or something like that and now after quite a bit of driving, we did a pretty long Marketplace run and now we’ve done our uh Eighth Mile run we’re sitting at 22.7. Now a lot of that was Interstate cruising, but we’ve done quite a few exhaust romps just to hear it.

U, we’ve done the Eighth Mile Run and then around town and stuff, so maybe it is just the driving that I did or maybe it did actually increase. Our fuel economy, but 22.7 uh, that’s pretty freaking insane so uh, whether or not it is legit like two three miles per gallon improveed. By doing this can’t really say for sure um, but there she is boy. So I’m going to make a separate video DED dedicated just purely to the exhaust sound uh, because I don’t have enough time and I got to get this video up now.

I got to edit it and everything I got like a couple of hours to get it up, so there she is. Hopefully you did enjoy uh. It is definitely a big difference. Uh sound is a huge difference. Performance clearly was improved and uh.

Once we get that freaking exhaust leak fixed, I am going to be absolutely in love with it. That’S the only thing holding me back right now, because when you do cold start it it does have that and you get your hand on there and feel it. So I’m hoping I just got to take everything back loose readjust it and um. Then we won’t have that issue anymore, and I want to do that before I do the outside exhaust clips and stuff, because there’s probably a chance you might can hear it, and I just don’t want to do that so anyways there. She is SPD high flow caded Y pipe installed on the 245 L.
Definitely a big Improvement, sound and performance, so I’m pretty happy with it as long as I can get that exhaust leak fixed so with that said, hopefully did enjoy comment down below. Let me know I’ll see y’all boys in the next one