Duals or not?

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Apr 13, 2008 | 06:58 PM

rayvendawn

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From: arlington,tx

Duals or not?

I have the stainless steel lpp headers with the off road y and 3 inch mid all to a cutout.. and shitty flowmaster muffler from previous owner. I wanted to do duals before I did the off road y but couldn't find a shop to do it. I found one now that can.
Is there enough gain to warrent doing duals?
I would probably have them going all the way out the back because I really like the tips that I got and just doing dual cutouts. What do you think?

Apr 13, 2008 | 08:41 PM

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I had my car with a lid, tsp rumbler and pacesetter long tubes with a tune and felt a difference. The minute i added true duals to the mix i felt a seat of the pants improvment like i did with th headers. Not so much down low but def up high.

Apr 13, 2008 | 08:58 PM

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the gain is moreso in the top end. i never had a ypipe on my lts so i'm not personally sure about the difference but my buddy wes could tell ya, i'll try to get him to chime in

Apr 13, 2008 | 09:19 PM

Fabrizi

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Duals are the only way to go. I've done the Y-pipe and I've done the TD's. TD's hands down. Better sound and I don't mind not having tips out the back.

Apr 14, 2008 | 02:40 AM

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When I did my td's I didn't even think about a y. The car sounds so good not comparable to a y at all. And it flows much better in my opinion. I went under the axle by the way.

Apr 14, 2008 | 02:19 PM

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Not sure about power comparison (only had td's), but the td's sound soo good imo. Y-pipes can get a raspiness to them sometimes. Which doesn't always sound bad, but it's not how I want my car to sound. I'm going for the old school muscle rumble, hence the chambered mufflers.

Plus, I like how Camaros look with no tips. It seems really hard to make tips look good, unless there's a valence, or you spend weeks aligning the tips so they're symmetrical.