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The cheapest place I could find was minute muffler at about 700 bucks to go from cats to a single out no muffler. We never talked what grade of exhaust tubing but I'm assuming aluminized. I bought some reducers from them and they were all mismatched and ended up having some pretty crappy fit ups. Don't know how but they bent some of my 3"ID to 2.75"ID reducers into 3.125"ID to 2.75"ID. Most muffler shops around here are quite over priced and do some poor quality work unless I want to drive 3+hours. Keep in mind too, living in Canada we pay quite a bit more for some things as you guys do across the border. It's not uncommon for a cat back system to run over 1000$ which is roughly 760 USD. The system I'm looking at would come out to about 380 USD all pre bent stainless.

That's essentially what I'm getting too. I'm planning on running it straight piped from the cats back (not really straight pipe I know). Worst comes to worst I'll pop a muffler in if it's too loud. I had someone else in the truck revving it while I stood in front of the tail pipe and all I found was it sounded a bit meaner than stock but not noticeably louder. I've been planning on keeping the stock flapper in place as I've been reading this helps with drone a lot. I drove a 2.5hr round trip the day after putting the cherry bomb on and the sound in the cab was 100% same as stock. Can't even hear the muffler unless I've got the radio and fans off in the truck with the windows down. Sorry to hear about the wind noise and rattling in your truck. Mine seems fine but it's hard for me to tell as I've got 33.2" duratracs and those get pretty noise by themselves. Now the big question do my exhaust myself with aluminized or for 300 bucks more upgrade to (mandrel) pre bent 409 stainless? On a side note what's the best way to attach images on this forum?

I won't be buying the kit in its entirety. And quite honestly, I'm just bored looking to change up the sound of my truck. And hey, if you can do it, why not? That's why I'm tossing up the idea of just doing it myself but once I seen I can score the pipe for my exhaust from the cat to the pipes including a dual out and all pre bent for just over 500 bucks I figured that may save me some headache (and 3" alum pipe here is around 100 bucks per 10 feet so I'd be looking at probably close to 150 bucks before even having it bent and that's cheap aluminized stuff). I was going to just cut the resonator and put in a straight piece but I'm wanting to run duals for the looks. Besides all this, living in Canada has ruined my exhaust system and it's about time to re do it. As far as the cherry bomb goes, yup I don't find it loud at all. I left the resonator and flapper in place. Sounds like stock with a rumble. A bit louder but not all that much. When I brought it into the shop to weld it my coworker told me they didn't even notice a difference.

Hey guys, I'm looking for some advice. So last week I did a simple muffler swap on my 2015 Silverado 1500 5.3. I simply cut the stock muffler off and threw on a cherry bomb extreme, with the flapper still intact in the stock position. After a week and a bit of having it on I'm wanting louder as this sounds just a tad louder than stock but with a nice deep rumble. I've come to realize these trucks really don't sound mean without some drastic measures. Originally my plan was to do a little parking lot DIY and cut back to the flex pipe and run a 3" aluminized pipe from there and have it go up over the axle and Y off into duals to each corner. After doing some looking around I remembered NAPA sold a pretty extensive selection of exhaust tubing and decided to take a look. Turns out I can buy a (nearly) complete stainless Dynomax exhaust minus the muffler for around 550-600CAD if I buy the parts separate rather than in the "kit" (the kit is around 1100CAD). Part number is Dynomax 39530. What I'm trying to get to is does anyone have experience with this kit or any dynomax products in general? How is the quality of the stainless (409? Can't imagine its 304) What do you guys think? Should I get to building myself or go with the pre made dynomax?