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I want to get a new exhaust and some people tell me to get the true duals because it sounds better than just two pipes stemming out of one muffler. Any help on this I would appreciate. Thanks.

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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true duals will give u a lil more power and help alleviate back pressure. it will be a lil louder. but if you do it get an x pipe put in

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true duals will give u a lil more power and help alleviate back pressure. it will be a lil louder. but if you do it get an x pipe put in

 

 

WOuld it still sound bada$$ with the single flowmaster???

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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yea. i told you i love mine. you saw how i set mine up

Chris Senior Enthusiast

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are you saying yes or no to true duals or the x/h pipe jenna?

Big Whiskey Senior Enthusiast

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True duals (without X or H pipe) will give you a "cackle" sound like some of the old muscle cars or 70's trucks with glass packs used to have. Fake duals are cheaper, and will give you more of a deeper tone, without the cackle. In my experience, drone and resonance is more of a problem with fake duals unless you buy an expensive muffler that is tuned specifically for your engine (magnaflow). As far as an X or H pipe, I don't think it's that important on a stock motor. Personally, I love the cackle of true duals. Some people don't. I had true duals with 18 inch glass packs on my '06 and loved the way it sounded. Good luck :D

dlstewart01 Senior Enthusiast

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John Force and Austin Coil...Austin, can you make my funny car sound more loud so people will think its badazz going down the strip. Well yeah John but performance may suffer. Damn performance, Austin, I just want to sound badazz :D

dewfpo Senior Enthusiast

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A good sounding exhaust is in the ear of the beholder, search on Youtube or this forum for sound clips and then decide what you want. Spending a few hundred dollars on an exhaust system and then being dissatisfied sucks.

 

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Jennabear Senior Enthusiast

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are you saying yes or no to true duals or the x/h pipe jenna?

 

We are running true duals (with an X pipe) on our Silverado. If you are planning on running duals, I would highly recommend using an X pipe with two mufflers.

mxdirtrider56 Enthusiast

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John Force and Austin Coil...Austin, can you make my funny car sound more loud so people will think its badazz going down the strip. Well yeah John but performance may suffer. Damn performance, Austin, I just want to sound badazz :D

 

"Damn perforrmance, I just want to sound bad a$$!" :seeya:

tylerjenkins92@aol.com Senior Enthusiast

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I have flowmaster true duals and they don't drone at all at 65mph. I don't have an x pipe either. They did sound sorta loud and obnoxious when I first put them on, but now, 20,000 miles down the road they sound really good.

hockeypro1411 Senior Enthusiast

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I have true duals with no mufflers at all and no X or H pipe. Just headers to pipe into 4" tips out back. This is what you want if you're doing the whole "loud" thing.

dave_benn Enthusiast

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What are you doing to run true duels on the NNBS trucks, I got a 2010 with a 5.3, are you putting headers on or cutting the third cat off?

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