Man I like that hood lucky, That a side I went with the cat back all american set up from flowmaster, looks good and performs , well better than stock, I'm in a close neighborhood so I get good and loud at wot. and not at start up. but it does have a nice rumble to it. just not obnoxious. Cops in my town have good ears. I may straight pipe the resonator before the muffler, but right now I'm good.

 

Hey Hammer, what kind of gains am I looking at if I delete the resonators, put in a maggy y-pipe and cherry bomb extreme 3inch in/dual 2.5 out?

 

resonators really aren't restrictive at all, they work by using a sound reflection/cancelling technology and don't redirect air flow much if at all.
The stock "Y" is terrible though and the stock muffler has about a 350 cfm rate.

A better "Y" and a Cherry Bomb Extreme with a cfm rate up over 500 will help some, but we are only talking single digit HP gains here. Although the increased sound will have you thinking you've gained a good bit more HP.

To have gains that you'd actually feel, you'd need to combine a CAI with something more than just a catback (ie. headers)...

 

Rocket it's fairly easy to make it happen. The hood scoop painted and the grille painted along with the cost to buy the hood scoop i have about 400 into it. I would really like to get a venom hood, but i have some other things that will happen first.

 

Mine's fake for now too. $162 bucks to the door painted from Stylintrucks.com. Added the "gutta grille" home made insert for the appearance of a real scoop.

That'll change. Soon as I have the time and an extra pair of hands for help, I'm gonna remove the scoop and hood, cut a hole where the scoop was, cut the front out and make a real mesh insert and reattach it.
Re-make my CAI with the filter angled into the scoop for cool air.

This will give me my space back for the factory 2nd battery tray as I want to goto 2 batteries.

Kinda kill 2 mods off at once. I figure to tackle it when I can get back up to the farm just before dove season starts in a month...

and now we are a bit off the original muffler question, LOL...

 

yep, sure like my fm's ,lol.op go with the cat back, see if you like it, that can be done in the driveway btw. If you need more then you can do the shorty headers, and still keep the cat back.

 

i have one flowmaster, and its dumped right by the axle. it is loud when i get on the throttle and a nice rumble at the stop lights. my brother is a gear head and likes racing and he even compliments on how nice it sounds.

 

sounds good.. i think i might get a flowmaster or magnaflow and dump it before the axle until i get my duals..

 

If your choices are between a Flowmaster or a Magnaflow, get the Maggie. Flowmaster mufflers have a cfm rate that's not any better than the stock muffler and unless you shell out the $$ for one of their stainless models, they tend to rust VERY quickly.

No disputing they sound very good, but their performance and durability leaves a lot to be desired...