What's your exhaust setup?

[TooleyOnDeck]

I'm currently planning my exhaust setup on my 00 RCSB, and would like to see some of your exhaust setups and get some opinions on what works, doesn't work, lessons learned, etc.

I'm not really looking for muffler suggestions, but rather how you ran it. I am basically considering side exit in front of the rear passenger tire (#1), stock location behind the rear passenger tire (#2), axle dump and no tip (#3), or straight back dual tips (#4).

Pics appreciated! Thanks

 

[DateNight]

I prefer axle dump or dumped in the corner of the bed/bumper like the early Camaros. I like the exhaust hidden.

 

[ORVietVet]

I get the draw of the correct sound but at my age, I prefer "stealth". I like to sneak up on my intended destination.

Everyone builds these beautiful trucks and makes them rumble but no one builds "silent".

 

[TooleyOnDeck]

I get the draw of the correct sound but at my age, I prefer "stealth". I like to sneak up on my intended destination.

Everyone builds these beautiful trucks and makes them rumble but no one builds "silent".

It's about as silent as possible now. I don't want it loud, it's still a 4.3, I just want to run some nice tips more for aesthetics. The side exit seems to be popular with these trucks, I just never get to see any in person where I live.

 

[TooleyOnDeck]

I prefer axle dump or dumped in the corner of the bed/bumper like the early Camaros. I like the exhaust hidden.

That's sort of my line of thinking when considering lowering it, don't want to dump $ on tips for them to be scraping all the time.

 

[DateNight]

I’m a big fan of turbo mufflers on the 4.3 v6, I also like the sound of stock mufflers with a turn downs.

I good friend of mine has a procharged 5th gen Camaro. It has long tubes, x pipe and stock mufflers. It by far is the coolest sounding car. The chop of the cam and sound of the procharger going through stock mufflers is amazing.

If it was my truck, I would run a quite performance muffler or a stock muffler from a Denali or 6.2 truck. That truck is very nice and doesn’t need loud exhaust to make it noticeable. Let the good looks don the talking.

 

[TooleyOnDeck]

Let the good looks do the talking.

That's the plan for now. Once I pull the trigger on LS swapping it, that'll be when I take the suppressor off and go loud lol

If only I have the foresight to keep my Denali muffler from my 03 lol

 

[DateNight]

Im going to run long tubes, and go 90/00s style with a h-pipe and OG 40series flowmasters when I swap. I miss that tinny bass sound.

My wife’s truck has true dual with x pipe and flowFx mufflers, it sounds rowdy but it also sounds like every ls truck around.

 

[TooleyOnDeck]

Im going to run long tubes, and go 90/00s style with a h-pipe and OG 40series flowmasters when I swap. I miss that tinny bass sound.

after my swap I'm thinking longtubes as well with super40/44s and cutouts so I can go full retard when desired.

 

[Cadillacmak]

Full retard is my kind of exhaust! When I put the 454 in my daughters 74 K1500, she wouldn't let me keep it straight piped, the roar that made was beautiful.

My pastor said last Sunday that our neighbors know when we don't go to church, and what does that say about us? I told him that's why I have good Christian exhaust, so everyone possible knows when I go to church!

 

[stutaeng]

I run stock on all my trucks.

My 06 Suburban 2500 had these loud Flowmasters or something from the previous owner. Absolutely loud and annoying as fu#@$c&k. I found me a stock muffler and got a shop to weld them on there. I'm sure the 25 ponies or whatever stayed with the Flowmasters in the scrap metal bin. LOL

 

[TooleyOnDeck]

I run stock on all my trucks.

My 06 Suburban 2500 had these loud Flowmasters or something from the previous owner. Absolutely loud and annoying as fu#@$c&k. I found me a stock muffler and got a shop to weld them on there. I'm sure the 25 ponies or whatever stayed with the Flowmasters in the scrap metal bin. LOL

My 03 6.0 Yukon has Jones Performance flowpacks and she screams and growls and the wife and kids love it lol

I’m sure as I get older I’ll grow out of it, but my dad is 57 and has a full race exhaust on his nitrous LS3 1970 Camaro, so maybe I won’t lol

 

[4silverado]

I did a muffler swap; still has the stock tail pipe exiting behind the rear tire. The 3 inch Cherry Bomb is a little loud and I know I lost about 3 MPG when I did the muffler swap a few years ago. I've got a Walker super turbo to replace the Cherry Bomb sometime. I’m hoping to get a little MPG back, only time will tell.

 

[someotherguy]

The wife's SS has the stock (SS-specific) oval tip at the passenger bed corner, and my now-gone Intimidator SS got the Corsa Sport setup with the rolled stainless round twin tip in the same location. Looked/sounded good but I'm kind of a sucker for symmetry so the one-side exhaust thing always seems weird to me.

Obviously not a GMT800 but on my slammed '93 C3500 I recently had the shop bend up some pipes that angle down and dump just behind the dually flares, but are out of sight.





Sounds good, can't see 'em. Truck originally had shotgun echo tips out the rear bumper and they were rusty, bent, and the style very dated, IMO. Plus, the pipes weren't bent high enough over the axle to clear it once I dropped the truck, so I had to chop 'em off shortly after.



Richard

 

[DateNight]

Those old pics don’t do that truck justice. I absolutely love the exhaust on the dually, that my favorite for a daily driver style exhaust.

 

[someotherguy]

Those old pics don’t do that truck justice. I absolutely love the exhaust on the dually, that my favorite for a daily driver style exhaust.

Oh she's still a pile, she just gets a little prettier with every bit of money and labor spent.



Richard

 

[TooleyOnDeck]

ironically the shotgun style is what i like honestly, that’s what I had on my 16 Silverado and currently on my 03 Denali, dated or not lol

I just don’t think it’ll look right with my roll pan

 

[ORVietVet]

ironically the shotgun style is what i like honestly, that’s what I had on my 16 Silverado and currently on my 03 Denali, dated or not lol

I just don’t think it’ll look right with my roll pan

Every time you guys talk about "shotgun style" exhaust system on the trucks, it takes me back to my Harley days and "shotgun style" pipes, like I had on a couple bikes I had.

 

[someotherguy]

It seems like every custom exhaust in the 80's and 90's had the tips poking straight out the back under the bumper. I got tired of seeing them. As beat-up as the exhaust on my dually was, and I mean beat-up - both manifolds are cracked (replacements on the shelf for when I feel really ambitious), head pipe to muffler clamp was loose and rattling but the bolt rusted stuck, and those rusty echo cans sitting crooked under the smashed bumper..

I gotta admit that big block idling through the echo tips sure sounded good.

Richard

 

[INW-Iron-Steel]

I get the draw of the correct sound but at my age, I prefer "stealth". I like to sneak up on my intended destination.

Everyone builds these beautiful trucks and makes them rumble but no one builds "silent".

You would totally love the hodge-podge system on my 04! It was loud and obnoxious as hell, which was really cool when I was 18. A few years on, it got old pulling into my place of work sounding like a teenager every-day, in all 4 of my V8 powered vehicles. It is nice to have one stealth vehicle.

I'm currently planning my exhaust setup on my 00 RCSB, and would like to see some of your exhaust setups and get some opinions on what works, doesn't work, lessons learned, etc.

I'm not really looking for muffler suggestions, but rather how you ran it. I am basically considering side exit in front of the rear passenger tire (#1), stock location behind the rear passenger tire (#2), axle dump and no tip (#3), or straight back dual tips (#4).

Pics appreciated! Thanks

I have a 2004 sierra 1500 RCSB with a 4.8. My old man built it first. The original exhaust we put on was Kooks stainless long tubes, Kooks high-flow catted 3 inch y-pipe, and then a Pypes Violator 3 inch single in, 2.5 inch dual out cat back. Exit out under the bumper. The Pypes kit never fit quite right, and eventually a baffle in the muffler broke a weld. If you have never experienced this, I hope you never do. Quite possibly the most annoying sound resonating through a vehicle.

I used the Pypes tubing back to the muffler, installed a Thrush chambered muffler and dumped it in front of the axle. This produced probably my favorite exhaust note of all time. Extremely throaty and aggressive. But, in a daily driver, I got tired of it after college. I drove between Spokane and Seattle often with this setup. It sounded down-right awesome pulling the passes at 3k RPM. My favorite section of I-90 is Westbound up and out of the Columbia River Gorge at Vantage (a windy, 4-lane uphill pull seldom patrolled by the troopers). By the top of the grade your ears were ringing. You couldn't have a conversation with your passenger, and you couldn't drown that tone out with the stereo. The drone at highway speed in overdrive was also enough to give you a headache. Like I said, it got tired of it as I got older.

When I had the 4l60 built, the trans shop damaged the rusty (at that point) thrush muffler. I ordered up a Walker OE muffler of some sort (I think it is for a 4.3 astro van) to replaced the thrush. It is a 3" in, single 2.5 out, so definitely more of a restriction. It is way better as a daily now. I have since named it "The mail truck"... The long tubes with the walker give it a unique sound. Under hard acceleration it sounds like a slightly more pissed off UPS truck.