I only have two cats.

But he removed the rear two cats since the 02 sensors are in front of them.

 

dont know if this pic will help you or not

 

i was thinking of standard-*** oem config exhaust when i made my original post. i just can't see that a 3" tip on the last 8" of exhaust is going to make a difference one way or another. i liken it to the same drivel i hear from wanna be gear heads that say they muffler added 20 hp on their honda or that splitfire sparkplugs and accel wires added 15 hp on their tercel.

we are talking tips here, right? if so, i want to see the exhaust shop that dyno'd the same vehicle back to back with nothing more than a exhaust tip change to document the "couple hundred PRM difference". of course, if you're talking about a enlarging a whole system, then that's a whole different animal.

 

I hate you guys! I just ordered my H Pipe and Dynomax mufflers . .

I think I'm going to go cut my exhaust off.

 

hey thump, off topic, how much was the linex and did you have linex of orlando do it?

 

If you dump do it after the axle.. Soooo much quiter and less drone in the cab.




I always get compliments on my exhaust. So it can't sound that bad.

 

It's not going to matter where I dump it. My tires are too loud to make a difference. I'm running nothing right now and its not even that loud in the truck with the windows up. LOL

I think it was $300-400, I'm not sure but I know I got a good deal on it compared to other Line-X stores. It was at the DeLand location.

 

Thump, what H pipe did you go with?

Slick, I never said there was a side by side dyno and I already agreed that on that short of a run it may not make a difference. At the same time it definitely wouldn't hurt to run it full length.

 

Summit Racing has a universal H-Pipe, it was only like $35.

 

Do you happen to have a sound clip of your exhaust? I am still trying to figure out what I want to go with.

 

Thanks, pictures and a full report are expected.

 

Does dumping so close to the spare tire affect anything. I know some guys on here are having trouble with the maggie dual rear kit setting the spare on fire.

 

ya they dont but im just going to rig it. i bought two reducers. one is a 2.5 inlet to a 3" outlet to a 3" inlet and 4" outlet.... and then the tip on the end of that.

i know this post is a week later... still hope it helps.

 

I got turn downs installed today, went in for a broken exhaust hanger and had the shop cut off the old tips and weld on two turn downs. They exit at the rear corners of the bumper. Cost $25, and looks so much cleaner.

 

here is some good reading about the h and x pipes.

For any performance exhaust system, some type of crossover connecting the two sides of a dual exhaust system is important because it acts to balance the two banks of the engine. The common H-style crossover is good at balancing sound pulses between the two halves, but does little to promote scavenging because the exhaust gases tend to follow the path of least resistance, which is straight through each pipe rather than taking the 90-degree turn through the H-pipe into the other half of the system. In an X-pipe system, however, where the two sides of the system intersect, the gasses have no choice but to intermingle as they pass through the junction. This promotes improved scavenging effects by smoothing out uneven exhaust pulses from the engine’s firing order. It also helps quiet down the exhaust, resulting in a mellower, less raspy tone. According to Magnaflow, the faster acceleration of the gasses through an X-pipe causes them to flow in a linear fashion parallel to the walls of the tubing rather than tumbling. This “laminar” flowing gas is much quieter than tumbling gas, resulting in an exhaust tone up to 8 decibels quieter than a traditional H-pipe.