Hooker Catback or True Duals?
Staging Lane
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I can get a video up of mine after I get back home when the semester ends, in about a week. No there's no balance pipe of any kind, it's actually fairly similar to what you are wanting to do except there's an extra couple feet of tubing before the mufflers.
On my red camaro, I had true duals with dynomax bullets dumped before the axle. I hated how loud and toneless that car was. I love my TSP rumbler catback, so I'd at least vote for the hooker over TD's. You;ll hate the drone with a stock cammed car.
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I have true duals and I love them. Would never go back. I dd the car no problem and get nothing but compliments every day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItIhYyJl5SI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItIhYyJl5SI
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From: ofallon mo
I had duals on my car for years and finally got tired of them. The drone at cruising just got old. It did sound good though. I since went with a flowmaster 3" -4" y-pipe and made my own 4" exhaust into a single in/ single out hooker max flow muffler with it hidden at the rear bumper. It sound amazing.
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My .02
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I think you should get an aftermarket Y pipe and run a chambered muffler right after the y... relatively cheap but it will sound pretty damn good. If you want it to be a bit louder, opt for a bullet muffler off the Y instead of a chambered muffler.
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ive got 2 turbo mufflers, both of them coming right off of each one of my LT headers, i just got my lt1 running again so i just threw them on there so i could break in my motor, i tried open headers but as it tunrs out the peoples whos car alarms i set off didnt seem to like it too much 
they sound sick at idle and when i get on it, the drone is horrible though! and they scrape, EVERYWHERE.
anyways, imo, DO NOT go just straight mufflers off the headers if its not just a temp system, also the driver side header is especially hard to fit a muffler on because the floor comes down so low.
they sound sick at idle and when i get on it, the drone is horrible though! and they scrape, EVERYWHERE.
anyways, imo, DO NOT go just straight mufflers off the headers if its not just a temp system, also the driver side header is especially hard to fit a muffler on because the floor comes down so low.
I'd go with Hooker. Friends told me that they could hear me coming before they even saw me (about 3/4 mile away with buildings/trees in between). It is tame at idle and loud when you're on it. 
I run a Hooker Aerochamber system on my car with an electric cutout right before the rear axle. Obviously the videos in my sig are with the cutout open, but there are a few on my YouTube with them closed. Granted I'm heavily modded but you can hear the difference.
I'll reiterate the above - LOUD GETS OLD FAST.
I'll reiterate the above - LOUD GETS OLD FAST.