mcmuscle3

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Hey guys, I have been to 3 different muffler shops around me and none of them has 3" pipe. the biggest they do is 2.75". I want to do LT, wanted an x or h pipe, and true duals. However they looked at it and said it couldn't be done. i showed them pictures of some I found on here and they said its to complicated.
My stock Y pipe is in bad shape, I picked a nice stock one off ebay for 50 bucks.
With LT, stock Y pipe, would 2.75" exhaust (catless), magnaflow muffler, and an electric cutout flow plenty good enough? Thats really my only option unless I purchase a high dollar kit online.

Furious1

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If you want true duals, bite the bullet and get the Kooks setup. I've seen guys on here do X pipes dumped before the axle...that shouldn't be too hard to do...

mcmuscle3

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Kooks setups was nearly 1100 bucks If its the one im thinking of. Im not about to throw that much in an exhaust system. I am not a huge fan of dumped exhaust personally. I think it gives a funny sound(air bouncing back and forth between car and road). Although it may not be legal, putting the exhaust in front of the rear tires would look pretty sweet. Based on my reading its not going to net but a few hp difference anyway between a y pipe vs a h or x pipe, right?

z-maro

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1. You can't run LT's with the stock Y-pipe.

2. The stock exhaust is 2.75" after the Y-pipe, so no I would not recommend replacing that with 2.5".

mcmuscle3

iTrader: (10)

Sorry I meant 2.75. The muffler shops can't go any larger than 2.75. Why wont Stock Y pip work with long tubes? I figured they will need trimmed down some but I didnt expect nothing major.

DANOZ28

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the stock Y-pipe is junk its flattened on the left / drivers side. dont throw away your stock cats (if stock) they have platinum inside and are worth money. i found out the hard way

mcmuscle3

iTrader: (10)

well dang, I wasted 50 bucks for nothing. who buys those cats?

DANOZ28

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call your local scrap metal yards. possibly the same place you'd cash in aluminum cans.

KingJacobo

You have a few options.

You could buy an electric (few hundred bucks, juts click a button) or a manual (bolt in/out) cutout to get loud sound and decent gains for $30 for manual or a few hundred for electric.

Or, True duals like TSP duals with headers and run the pipes out the back,

Or headers and an off road Y (or catted if you need emissions) to a catback.

OR just a catback (IMO a waste of $$) to get some gains and better sound, but not as drastic as with longtube headers.

99z28monster

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2.5 inch piping on true duals is more than enough exhaust pipe unless you plan on making crazy amounts of power.