i have a stack on my 7.3 and love it. deep, growly, loud. 6", chrome plated stainless, mitre.
that bein said, its NOT a matter of just putting the stack in and done.
there is this thing called drone. every truck with a stack gets it. its almost always right around 55mph, give or take 5mph. it will make you want to stick your fingers in your ears up to your wrists and wiggle them around.
that bein said, i played with different muffler options, and fixed it, and DIDNT lose the sound of the stack. so it is possible to cure it, but what worked for me, didnt work for a friend of mine.
that bein said, as much as i love it on my 7.3, i would not stack another truck. if you put groceries in the back, lets say a loaf of bread, and for some reason the bread slides out of the plastic bag, the plastic bag will insta-melt to the stack. and it does not come off, except with time, and ALOT of heat. ask me how i know. someone throws a plastic mountain dew bottle in your bed, etc etc, you get the idea.
you dont think that it takes up alot of space back there. and your right, you are only thinking about a 7". but then your not goin to put anything in the bed within about a foot of it, both to protect the stack, and whatever your putting in the bed. so you just lost 19" of box space, plus the front of your box, the upper lip of it sticks back about 2" from the front wall, so you lost that as dead space as well.
unless you run some sort of heat shield, but imo, on a pickup, that looks gay, and takes away from the stack.
if you dont hardly put things in the bed of your truck, then you will like it. if you use your truck as a truck, it will get old
its a novelty item. you will probably love it on this truck, but i highly doubt you'll like enough to do it to another truck. after a while, it starts to rank pretty high on the pita scale.
hope that helps with your decision.
oke:. I agree 100%. And to the op truck looks good, I'd leave it alone
