What does taking the muffler off do?

I have a 2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac. I was wondering what would it sound like if I took off the muffler? Would it be louder? Would it be a clean loud or nasty?

It will sound extremely loud… Intolerable… You will get pulled over and given a ticket and ordered to correct it… Depending on where you are, you may be ordered not to drive it and have to have it towed. This happened to my brother when he had an old muffler that blew out. He tried to drive it to work. Got pulled over and told he could not continue to drive it but had to get a ride and a tow to a place to fix it. He was given a ticket for violating a noise ordinance.

It would be louder, I would just have a louder muffler installed as opposed to no muffler at all. You could get a ticket.

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