Fabulous Fabrications Ranger Raptor exhaust completed

MEB · Dec 12, 2024

Considering their prices for other products, I expect this full exhaust to burn my pockets.
Well done though, nice sound and decent gains.

jrRaptor · Dec 12, 2024

MEB said:
Considering their prices for other products, I expect this full exhaust to burn my pockets.
Well done though, nice sound and decent gains.

$6028 for full exhaust to the U.S. if anyone is wondering. ($880 shipping) They have several options that reduce the price depending on your wants/needs.

Love the engineering that went into the finished product. Will have to listen on a better setup than my work PC to get a better feel for the sound.

RaptrJr · Dec 12, 2024

jrRaptor said:
$6028 for full exhaust to the U.S. if anyone is wondering. ($880 shipping) They have several options that reduce the price depending on your wants/needs.

Love the engineering that went into the finished product. Will have to listen on a better setup than my work PC to get a better feel for the sound.

If that is the price that's not even close to worth it for the power increase and noise change. I like their products but their prices are ridiculous. I guess if you REALLY hate the noise but still that's A LOT of coin, even if the shipping was free.

Catalyst · Dec 12, 2024

It is a really well engineered TBE. I won't be rushing to order at that price point though, and the shipping is brutal from over there. I also believe to fit those tips on the existing rear most section you still have to weld in v band adapters and chop the resonators - so it's not even a bolt on affair. At that price I also think it should be ceramic coated end to end.

yelnoc2 · Dec 12, 2024

Thanks for posting. Will be interesting to see what the one Borla is working on costs. I like the Baha sound just fine.

jrRaptor · Dec 12, 2024

I really liked the sound of the Borla on my Jeep SRT8 and my CTS-V but those are V8's. Fab's goal for the RR was to sound like a GT-R. I'm not sure it sounds that similar. Even though they're both turbo v6's, they're very different engines so you're never going to get them to sound the same. The quality and R&D is definitely up there so I can see the price. Subjective whether it's worth it or not.

Harlequin_Forest · Dec 12, 2024

I was really hoping SPD would have come out with an equal length/trombone unit but if the teaser video I saw was accurate it sounds exactly the same as stock but louder.

Edit: EL/trombone sill in development

rocsteady · Dec 13, 2024

Admittedly, not listening on high end system of any sort, but to my ears the sound is less pleasing than stock? I am a huge V8 fan but with that said, the stock Raptor isn't terrible for a V6 at all. Personally, I could find a zillion other things I would do with $6K and none of them would be this exhaust change.

JustNick · Dec 14, 2024

I listened to it on my home theater system and the difference is subtle, but it is different. It adds a little bit more drama to the note in terms of taking out the single note on the top end and adding a little more enunciation to the individual pulses. Is it enough to justify the price? Not for me. I'm sure it was very expensive to develop the system, but it's not like this is for a low production car so they would be able to get their ROI if the price was anywhere near reasonable

I came from the Audi world and the exhaust systems for them were a hair cheaper than what these guys are asking. I'll stick to fabricating my own performance down pipes and living with it

Ivan Baez · Dec 16, 2024

good company and excellent products.

jezzza · Dec 17, 2024

Been running this midpipe on my Ranger for a couple of months. Very happy with it. It sounds significantly better it all drive modes with no rasp whatsoever, but most importantly for me, it can be beautifully quiet.

JustNick · Dec 17, 2024

jezzza said:
Been running this midpipe on my Ranger for a couple of months. Very happy with it. It sound significantly better it all drive modes with no rasp whatsoever.

I'd love to buy one and support them, but when the price is 10% the value of the truck for the full system and 5% for just the midpipe, the value proposition just isn't there for me. They seem like great blokes over there and it does sound pretty good, but that price really needs to come down before it will grace the underbody of my truck. And to reiterate, I would love for it to grace the underbody of my truck

But... $6k USD for the full system would get a full Nostrum stage 2 fuel system and the ZFG tuning setup, which would net massive gains in comparison

Ivan Baez · Dec 17, 2024

have they published the dyno gains of the catback and the full system?

JustNick · Dec 17, 2024

Ivan Baez said:
have they published the dyno gains of the catback and the full system?

Yeah, it's towards the end of the video that's linked in the original post. Full system seems to net around 20hp, that third run that they did was a bit of an outlier at almost 30hp. I personally would like to see more runs and a median value pulled from the data instead of the way that they calculated it, but that's the numbers nerd in me talking. Outliers on such a small number of data points can skew a basic average immensely, but it also looked like they were pressed for dyno time and did the best that they could with what they had

But also, those gains are almost completely from the downpipes as the midpipe gains were within what I would consider to be dyno tolerances

Fabulous Fabrications Ranger Raptor exhaust completed

stuartmunto

Well-Known Member

MEB

Member

jrRaptor

Well-Known Member

RaptrJr

Well-Known Member

Catalyst

Well-Known Member

yelnoc2

Well-Known Member

jrRaptor

Well-Known Member

Harlequin_Forest

Active Member

rocsteady

Well-Known Member

JustNick

Well-Known Member

Ivan Baez

Well-Known Member

jezzza

Well-Known Member

JustNick

Well-Known Member

Ivan Baez

Well-Known Member

JustNick

Well-Known Member

Similar threads

Member Posted Images

Member Posted Images