Long Tubes Installed! (Now with a Video)
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Long Tubes Installed! (Now with a Video)
Well I finally got around to installing my headers today. The install was not too bad. Started around 1 and got done around 7. Hit a couple snags along the way, biggest was that the bolt hole in the passenger side header didn't line up with one of the holes in the head. After a little modification I managed to get it to work. So now the exhaust system has new LT's, two new high flow cats and 3" piping all the way back to the muffler.
Took her for a ride after everything was done and I have to say that the truck is much louder than before. I am going to have to take the super 40 off bc it sounds like the cutout did before I put the headers on. And now with the LT's, having the cutout open it is deafening. It looks like I am going to have to get a larger muffler so I can have a quite option for when I have the kid in the truck. I was thinking about ordering a magnaflow 12588.
I will try to get some videos for you so you can hear how loud it is now.
Took her for a ride after everything was done and I have to say that the truck is much louder than before. I am going to have to take the super 40 off bc it sounds like the cutout did before I put the headers on. And now with the LT's, having the cutout open it is deafening. It looks like I am going to have to get a larger muffler so I can have a quite option for when I have the kid in the truck. I was thinking about ordering a magnaflow 12588.
I will try to get some videos for you so you can hear how loud it is now.
Last edited by Off_Road_Teacher; Jan 24, 2010 at 02:13 PM.
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freakin right! congrats man. I started mine up open headers (before i attached the rest of the exhuast) and scared the **** out of everyone else in the shop. Its so loud, but so pure at the same time...like an old school muscle car. I love how these hemi's sound with LTs!!
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I drove down to a local muffler shop to have my cats welded back in after I bolted the headers on, in essence driving 6 miles with open headers. There was not one soul I passed did not stare at me as I went bye the whole way...
We got a "Headers Club" in the club section? If not, we may need one...
We got a "Headers Club" in the club section? If not, we may need one...
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bout time man, congrats on getting them together!!! did you put in a wideband as well, more than likely you're going to need to dial them in a bit more, then they should feel much better.
I told you the cutout plus the LT's would be loud as hell lol.
I told you the cutout plus the LT's would be loud as hell lol.
