i have been looking at getting the banks monster dual exhaust but i cant find it anywhere other than there website, if anyone knows where i could find it at i would appreciate it. Also does anyone know how this sounds and if it is any different than the single exit system. thanks

 

I have it and love it. There are a couple of places that you can get it from (stylintrucks.com, etc.) but I ended up ordering it from banks. Their warranty is no good if you buy it from anywhere besides them, they don't official have any resellers. If you call their # you will get a person, ordering only took me a total of 2 min. It was only $50 more shipped, than the cheapest list price I found anywhere else (I bouught the intake with it as well)

 

jb how does the banks sound?

 

JB how much did you end up spending on both together? I have a mag with the Monster single outlet priced at $435, and the intake at $399 from Banks, I also emailed them on pricing and availability of both...did you get any kind of deal buying them together? Does the intake come with an oil kit or is it sold separately? Any idea how often you need to clean and re-oil? I'm also looking at the Torque Tubes, but they are basically shorties, and so far everyone says go with long tubes, shorties give little to no gain, however the Torque tubes seem to have a different design, and the flange looks real beefy.

 

The sound is good. When you floor it and get it up to about 4k (I have 5.4) it really roars. Nice little rumble under normal acceleration and it mellows out to no drone when you hold speed at anything under 2500 rpm. (Thats about 85 for me)

I believe (Don't have the reciept on me) that the total, shipped to Ohio, was $915 (SCREW). There is no oil kit included with it, and I THINK they say clean and re-oil every 75k miles, but I'll probably do it every 30k. I just bought a K&N re-oil kit at the local autoparts store.

I don't have any personal experience with the torque tubes, but I do know that they engineer everything they make to work together. I went with them because I used Banks stuff on my 6.9L, 7.3L, and 6.0L (this is the first gasser truck I've owned) and I have been extremely pleased. With this truck, I have not experienced any lean conditions or codes popping. I have 1800 miles on it since I put the Banks stuff on, and I am averaging about 1.7 mpg greater mileage (I do a lot of short trips and stop and go) If you can find a video on the net of the dyno testing (and other testing) that banks does to all of their components and vehicles, it puts all of the other "3 runs and your done" dyno testings to shame.