Im not too concerned with local laws seeing as how i move every few years.

 

lol
You should be even more so.

 

I'd have to change my truck every few years if I worried about them! lol

 

Then just don't mess with stuff you really shouldn't, IE, keep it Federally legal.

It's just easier to deal with as far as inspections, law enforcement, and shops should you need something done.

 

You can go long and still pass inspection, everywhere except California. Takes a little work, but the cats can be moved back and then all you need to do is extend the rear 02 sensor wires about 14". CARB technically won't let you move the cats from the stock location.

I did this way back in '06 and have yet to generate a single emission code.

I also agree that LTs outperform short tubes across the board. The reason there is perception that short tubes are better down low is the same argument that stock exhaust manifolds are better than LTs down low. Your "butt dyno" feels the resistance of blowback (back pressure), but if you hook up to a dyno, you'd see that scavenging those gasses lets the engine produce more power without having to work as hard down low to push those gasses out of the cylinder...

 

You lost some credibility by making this statement. The stock Y pipe is a crimped POS compared to aftermarket Y pipes such as the Magnaflow

 

My mistake. I was thinking the later y-pipes were better than the 2nd gen y's

Cut me some slack here. I don't own a 3rd gen.

 

Yeah, they baaad...its like a dang s curve. No worries though

 

Yeah, ddude, they pretty fu*kin' restrictive. It's all good, everybody gets a mulligan once in a while...

 

Point of view, my man. I know what mine looks like, and the pipe on my dad's Ram is a little larger...so I assumed it was better.