Exhaust Question

[adamstokes88]

This is my first post, this forum has been very helpful for me but I can't find the answer I'm looking for. Emmissions/Inspections is not required where I live and I would like to have my exhaust as free flowing as possible. So far my plans are to put on long tube headers, disable the o2 sensors, no cats, no muffler, and an x-pipe for backpressure. Would this setup be too outrageous, I just need some opinions.

Thanks

[Shaners]

Sounds loud! The X pipe is a good idea. Not sure what will happen when you disconnect the O2 sensors...

[Stevens03]

Loud!

 

You'll probably loose HP due to the lack of back pressure.

[dewfpo]

If it's a street driven truck and you use to tow or haul it will be crappy with no back pressure and be ridiculously loud. Unless your talking about taking it to the strip and racing it all the time. You'll loose low end torque which you need in a heavy pickup truck and any HP you might gain will be high in the rpm range. If it were me I wouldn't do it, you'd take a good running truck and make it worse.

 

DEWFPO

[adamstokes88]

I drive this truck daily but I don't tow anything other than lawn equipment and that's about to stop. I don't want to lose torque, if I ran no cats but had mufflers would this be enough backpressure with 2.5 in piping?

[adamstokes88]

Thanks for the input!

[Kodiak450]

No cats = stiff fines. There was a police department in my state that had their dats removed off of at least 10 cruisers. They were given a deadline to have the cats put back on of face stiff fines per cruiser. Even the law isn't above the law! Don't get me wrong, there's people that do this (remove their cats) but this day in age, I see it done less and less as penalties and fines have gotten alot more steep over the years.