hey i have a concern or issue...


Do your headers on the passenger side touch the body and are they very loud in the cab?

Also do they squeak when the body moves.

 

my passenger side header hit the frame slightly but has since put a nice long crease from engine torque so it no longer hits. Neither my wifes truck or mine do they touch the body at all.

 

Damn... mine sit right up to the body.. also feels like i lost power with my set up... Especially down low.

 

my truck ran great when I installed them before the SC, but my wifes truck seemed to loose just a little down low but she is still on the factory tune.

 

yea i am not tuned for them yet...


But here are some picture... But you can see it touching the heat sheild and body it looks like.






i think i need a muffler... i was thinking about a 16" magnaflow i dont have a muffler right now..

 

not having the muffler would cause a low end loss due to almost zero backpressure. Is the header tube actually touching the body or just the heatshield?

 

both....

 

Update, talked to my exhaust guy, going back tomorrow to get a muffler put on. and down size the piping to help restore my low range TQ... anyone think they may effect top range? like kill it?

 

you need a muffler, and I hope you are gonna put 2-1/2 inch pipe on there any more that that will hurt you..



and dont put a slowmaster on there!!

 

this is the plan.. keep my y pipe that is 2.5 and then it will go into a single 2.5" and 2.5 core mangnaflow muffler and then have a 3" tail pipe..


matt did you have any issue with the headers touching body?

 

I had a spot that did touch but I took the hammer to it a few times and its good now

 

Weazel do you have cats on there at all?

 

yes...

 

did you do this before you put the header on?

 

So i ordered my new muffler single 2.5" 4" Round body casing 14" in length.. so basically my y-pipe is 2.5 which will go into a single 2.5 into a 2.5 core magnaflow muffler and out to a 3" tail pipe.


this should restore what i lost... i am hoping... and also quiet the beast down.