SSChevy99

hey fellas. im gonna be installing my long tubes on my 99 ss pretty soon. i went to a muffler shop asking about true duals and the guy told me i dont have the room, i want a custom exhaust built with an x pipe but i dont wanna shell out 400 dollars out to texas speed. and i have seen custom setups.... soooo is he full of ****? can a custom setup be made for me? any pics or help would be great. thanks fellas!!!!!

Jassick

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I know what you mean, I went to four/five shops in my area to get an estimate. All of them said, "Can't be done, no room, but I can put a nice Flowmaster muffler on there for ya." Which is why I ended up hitting up Texas Speed for their kit. I see lots of guys on here with custom sets, so they can be done, you just got to find a shop that knows what their doing.

Wish you luck.

lemons12

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i paid 200 for a local guy to do my exhaust.. and 200 for my two mufflers.... this is what he did for 200..


welded the custom bent by himself 2.5 inch piping onto the longtubes.. it was an xpipe also, and then welded my mufflers onto the xpipe right before the axle and put hangers to hold the mnufflers..



he cut me a small deal, cause all local ls1 guys go to him.. there was more than enough room.. i havnt scrapped.. but i am slightly careful... it was 402.50 for the whole thing, i bought the mufflers myself from jegs or summit cant remember. he said if it was anyone else, instead of 200 it would have been 225-250..

SSChevy99

thanks fellas. anyone else got any input?

TheSilverOne

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read the TRUE DUALS sticky at the top

https://ls1tech.com/forums/generation-iii-external-engine/531756-true-duals-questions-answered-here-post-your-information-pics-too.html

philsblwnz28

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print out a pic of a ls1 with true duals and give it to him and tell him you want something similar to this,

lemons12

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doubt that will work... if he isnt good enough to know how to do it, he would need dimensions and everything..

bene

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Its not hard to do dimension for this kit. Just use your own stock dimension x 2 pipes. Figure out where to bend the pipes by looking at the pictures we posted.

SSChevy99

thanks for all the help fellas!

mvvette97

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I made mine myself, took a while because I didn't want a ton of welds and low hanging pipes but I got it done. The hardest part was making the xpipe. I ran it to the axles but then had a shop put tailpipes on it. My local shop also said it couldn't be done even when I showed him some pictures. He was just a dick and didn't want to do it.

LS1nut377

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whatever guy you asked is full of ****. there is room,there just inst enough room in his brain to know how to do it. he are some pic of our local LS1 guys work.

azredbird

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https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...=804689&page=4

Ehatcher

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The TSP duals setup has done me good... i dont think you could go wrong with it, honestly.

integraxtc

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see that link that azredbird posted? That's how I've been planning on getting my under the axle set-up. Looks so mean, and tough. I prefer it to the 3 pics above, even thought they're straighter flow.

MM98

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I had mine fabbed up using with a 3" x into set of Mac Flowpaths.. I will try & get pics up as this is by far my most favorite sounding muffler I've heard on our cars..

tillery

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400 bucks aint that bad if you add up the cost of mufflers-pipe-hangers-and fabbed X-pipe. And its mandrel bent tubing! Most shops bending machines crush the pipe in the bends hurting overall performance. Where are you located at? Here in west texas I can get a dual setup over the axle-mandrel bent tubing(aluminized steel) with chambered style mufflers for 380.00. The muffles are knock off flowmasters-you wouldnt know the diff unless I told you. Shop around- the shop you are dealing with obviously dont have any fabricating skills.

98mysticZ

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i would just get the texas speed setup unless u want it to back past the rear.. .. i love mine

SSChevy99

wow thanks a bunch for all the help fellas! tillery, im located in vegas. too bad im not in west texas hahah. 380 is a smokin deal!

SIC LSX

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$400 for a bolt on set is a good deal.

SIC LSX

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yeah the bad thing about that is he didnt put collectors in front of the rear end so when you jack you car up and let the rear end hang you can pull the pipes so the rear end dosnt hang on the pipes and breaks the hangers! I had this happened te me while i was laying under the car!!!!!! scared the fuc* out of me!