i am looking at exhaust and ive been looking at magnaflow, flowmaster, banks and doing it custom myself but id like some input on the best exhaust for power performance sound and mpgs any input would be greatly appreciated

 

Take Flowmaster out of your list if power and performance are you expectations.

Stick with Magnaflow, Borla, Banks, Gibson, anything straight through.

2.25" true duals X piped with Borla or Magnaflow mufflers would be best.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO5nv1JMZhM

heres a little clip of my banks. it's about a month old and installed myself within an hour and half. fit great no having to tweak or anything. hard part was getting off the old exhaust. I drive around 500 miles a week and it's great in the cab. even crusing on the highway around 75 theres not much noise. ( To quiet for me actually) so im going to get some highflow cats. but then again my z71 is truedualed no cats magnaflows. i just like loud exhaust.

 

sorry forgot to say in my story above (lol) but between the CAI and banks. i had a good amount of increase in hp and gas mileage went from around 15 to 17.6

 

Darren: i really like ur setup how much did it cost you

Buckshot: do u have the single or dual banks and i have a k&n CAI

 

i have a single, and yea darren's sounds great and would probably be cheaper than banks. if you don't mind the noise volume. prefect (IMO)

 

$110 for the tips ( #35117 )

$134 for the 11" Mags ( #11366 )

$230 for 2.5" smooth bent system fabbed and installed

Rear cat delete $30 in supplies

Overall $512.

 

thats a little cheaper then the banks and how hard was it to delete the rear cats?

 

It was simple to do with a friends help, pulling back the exhaust to slip fit the right bank pipe in was the most difficult since the strength of the exhaust is behind it. We got done in about 1.5hrs.

 

I think Darren has the right idea here...

 

Thanks guys ill be doing this soon ill post pictures and some videos when i finally decide which setup