Try aeroturbine 3535XL...or 4040XL...whatever size you are running, they make them in the diameter you'll need. This has a resonator in it. If need be can always add an external on near the tailpipe too.
LT will never have to fight one of his exhausts off his vehicles due to them rusting together…because the system was just off the week prior to change the way it sounds. 😂 Just kidding. I admire the perfectionist in you. Keep up the great content!
Love the maggies at WOT and smooth mellow at cruise sounds nice and sneaky at idle on the throttle 2011 4.8 Silverado sounds nice exit down past rear bumper no resonance. Maggies will get louder when broke in. Used to like loud all the time when younger now older like sleepers look and sound stock but when the green light pops the BS Stops.
Tough place to be, you’d probably be happy with a vacuum operated cutout that would redirect it before the quiet muffler, and at WOT it would either dump it or direct it into a loud muffler like a carven or black widow type muffler.
I thought the same thing. Keep what gives the desired sound and change what allows for adjustment of the volume of the desired sound. But hey, I’m not an exhaust engineer either. Love my Magnaflows on my 5.7 Hemi Charger Pursuit. Occasionally, I wish they were a little louder. But I don’t actually wish that enough to replace them something louder…for now 🤣
Exhaust cutouts are key IMO, I'm gonna be doing some 40 or 60 series muffler ahead of flowmaster FX's, and I'm gonna do a double cutout to either bypass the first muffler or bypass both to a side exit
@@Prestiged_peck I'm actually running a FlowFX on my car. It's an old 1.8 turbo Audi. No resonator or anything and I am amazed at how quite it is. And it doesn't sound like a little Honda fart can! Which let's me honest that's the best part. Ever since I built the exhaust I wanted a cut-out, just never did it...
@@4BillC the butterfly ones are better, they all leak just a bit but the pocket door style ones jam so easy, the butterfly valve ones are just plain better.
@@Prestiged_peck good to know although I'm not sure what what you mean by "pocket door." i never really looked into them and the few I've seen where all butterfly valves, some electrical some vacuum.
I held off buying that exhaust hangar removal tool for years thinking it wasn't worth it and what a mistake that was. That tool is so awesome when you remove and reinstall exhaust systems over and over, it's one of my favorite seldom used tools now. Its so cool to see you get to spend the time necessary to make a truck the way you want and not just deal with it the way it was because of time constraints or it was a sponsored part.
I think your truck sounds really good now. I like the way you analyze all the elements of the exhaust system and their impact on the final sound. Especially once it is applied to different rpm, idle, rev and so on. Talking about x-pipe, in my opinion, it gives a noticeable effect on dual exhaust which is not the case here. So it is why you can't hear much of the difference. I enjoyed watching you video, greetings from Poland!
LT, bruh hear me out...on my 06 silverado 5.3 I welded a true dual 2.5" dual X pipe equal length straight pipe exhaust with bullet converters and I freakin love it!!! The cold start is amazing, has that vette rev sound and is not ignorantly loud by any means under normal conditions. You have to listen for it on the interstate at 2500 rpm at 75mph. It's and extended cab and the exhaust runs straight out the back like a raptor. I'm build a chevy version of a raptor because I can and I can't afford one, nor am I a ford guy. So I'm building a chevy raptor suspension and all and an 8.1 2005 suburban 4x4 2500 lowered tow vehicle for my 30' scarab. Thank you for the inspiration!!
That Flowmaster did have a great, unique sound to it, but i definitely understand the drone dilemma lol. This magnaflow system sounds beautiful under throttle from the outside, and will get a little louder over time as those mufflers break in. I'd say you are definitely on the right track now man, cant wait to see, or hear whats in store next!
I think it sounds like almost exactly what you were shooting for. A younger version of me would be laughing but me right now, I think I'm on your side here
I used a 31" long Cherry Bomb "Salute" muffler. It's 4" ID. I'm also using a 3"x24" summit racing glasspack after my 3" y-pipe. I've got almost 5' of muffler on my 1992 C1500 pickup with an old tbi 350. It has a nice deep sound from the 4" ID muffler and tailpipe. But it is pretty mellow because I have 2 mufflers. They are both a glasspack style muffler. Zero restriction for my 190hp. Lol. My other truck is loud.. with a 5"IDx9"long resonator as a muffler on a 650hp supercharged 355. This one can be mellow.
To get my cammed and headed 5.3 tontame down for daily driving i ended up with LT's, cooks high flow cats, vibrant resonator, and magnaflow muffler... all in mandrel 3". It sounds sick now. Different than any other LS trick for sure. Good stuff LFlT, the combination is part of the fun
Lol I love alternating and having various different setups, some people may think you're crazy but you know what the perfect sound is, I finally found mine so I know what it's like!
I for one think you nailed it! It sounds great at cruise and ferocious as hell when you get on it!!! Kudos also for the Doppler affect sound shot…never would’ve guessed a 4.8 could sound so mean!!!
A lot of people dont realize that the mufflers with sound deadening packing inside is muffled till 500 to 1000 miles then the sound deadening material shrinks down from the heat and will give the exhaust some more tone. I put the flow master FX mufflers on my 82 D150 . the internals are the dame as magnaflows and borla but half the price. I had 2 40 series flow masters but had too much drone and sounded like your original muffler exhaust going down the highway that's why I switched
LT you took the words right out of my mouth, the comment you made about having your cake and eating it too. I think you can get that sound back if you just do an electronic cut, then you can have that sound back when you want it
One of the signs I think of getting older I think is liking things a little quieter, I would take the trade off of a less aggressive sounding idle than normal driving annoyance. I went a similar route years ago coming from a x-pipe and dual 3” magnaflow with 3” tailpipes that dropped inside the factory hitch, that was with 1.75 pacesetter headers and no cats. Now I run 1 7/8 kooks headers still with no cats to a 2500hd factory muffler back. My truck is a 1/2 ton crew cab 5’ 8” box 2006, a 2500hd ext cab 6.5ft box 6.0L exhaust fit right into the same hangars! It’s quiet unless my foot is in it and has a distinct idle. I didn’t mention yet but it is a bolt-on 6.0L LQ9 truck
In my experience the magnaflows will get louder over time, so be prepared for that. My favorite exhaust setup I have had has been a Stock muffler with a 4in tailpipe and inlet with an exhaust cutout before it. Ive used boost activated and electric cutouts and they each have their advantages, but overall work well for letting exhaust breathe and loud only when you want it. The stock muffler with the larger tailpipe will still have good sound at idle (depending on cam) but there is absolutely no drone at cruising RPM.
I had the same experience with Magnaflow mufflers when I used one in my car project. 5.0L into a 2.5" double inlet and outlet Magnaflow, and it slowly got to the point that friends could tell when I was arriving, from around 5 blocks away. Not romping on it, just barely idling along. I ended up getting a pair of 24" long 2.25" glass packs installed ahead of the muffler just to knock the noise back down to tolerable levels.
My personal favorite muffler on any LS is the borla. I did a 6.2l swap into my 09 avalanche and a full 3" pipe kit. I deleted my cats also since there is no emissions test here in Alberta. The borla is also an exhaust most people don't use and I've had many comments on the uniqueness of my trucks sound. Just my two bits. Love your builds BTW.
Love the doughnuts to finish the video right next to a neighborhood, you should add an electronic cut out in front of second muffler for rowdy mode, I think it sounds fantastic but it did tone it down quite a bit, I've always loved the magnaflow product
Building an exhaust with the tig is definitely one of your favorite activities. You created exhaust art in your old job, and now in your garage. Fun to watch. It would be cool if you got to nerd out and do a tig basics video series 👍
Imo the x and y is a huge factor in redundancy the y is giving you all performance benefits and the x contributes to droan sound. I think your just showing off with your welding skills. Keep on doing what you do and thanks for sharing. Definitely sounds better not like cherry bombs anymore and hell yeah let the smoke out of them tires!
Much better! Sounds less like every challenger and charger on the road. I struggled to get my 8.1 burb to the sound level I wanted. I ran dual resonators, a magnaflow dual 3” in dial 3” out with the internal x pipe, merged them into a single 4” to go over the axle then added a vibrant 4” muffler to a turn down. It is still a little loud but the tone is great. This was also after 3 iterations.
I bought a 3500 with an 8.1 this fall. I thought about swapping out the stock exhaust but I am afraid that it will just be too loud so I am just going to keep it stock. I can go for a ride in my Checker if I want to hear a louder exhaust.
I know you probably don't want to change it again but I highly recommend building the exhaust Equal length before the Y. You'll be amazed that it'll sound just like an LS powered car rather than having that 2500-3k rpm clap sound that all trucks have from the unequal length exhaust. Keep everything you have in regards to the back half of the exhaust, but build it equal length from the Headers to the Y. You'll be amazed at the difference.
Had a 95 Roadmaster wagon with the LT1, and installed mid length headers, magnaflow x-pipe, and just two of the small resonators to 3" tips behind the wheels. SOUNDED AWESOME with the unique vette tone. Maybe you could try with and without the muffler, or go full dual exhaust with just the two resonators in a future test video
Oh man! I miss those Roadmasters! I would LOVE to find one of those or a Caddy Fleetwood in nice shape with relatively low miles. I’d of course have to mess around with the exhaust a little and make just a few little cosmetic and performance mods to make it unique but nothing crazy, gaudy or over the top.
The exhaust won't get that hot near the bed heat shield. The exhaust would get hot near a restriction, but with free-flowing exhaust you won't have that much heat when cruising. Hard acceleration might heat it up, but there is a lot of surface area to dissipate the heat so it won't be hot for long.
I've found drone to be a result of unequal cat back segments. For instance the 8.1l has the driverside jump over to the passenger side, adding some 2/3 feet of tube. This will cause the tubes themselves to vibrate on different frequencies, like to guitar stings oscillating when almost in tune. The fix being to make them equal eg; tune them. Just measure header flange back, and make them the same length by adding or removing some same diameter segments as needed...like tuning any other thing lol.
It sounds so good! I will say we are the same in terms of sound on the vehicles. Absolutely quiet on the road but a bit of a monster when that pedal is down. Almost sleeper-like 😁
Power adder, AWD, with 4:30's! That stepside is going to be a very fun truck! Can't wait to see the results. Looking forward to the 4:30's swap; will be doing the same myself.
You know your getting old when truck is never quiet enough lol. I know how u feel used to love loud exhaust don't care much about it now. You'll get it right man.
Back in the day the old 283 and 327 too...they had a lot different note than a 350 or 400...even cams sound different in those...keep chasing you find what your looking for.... keep up the good work
Oh, I wish you had chosen to do a Helmholtz resonator for the Flowmaster to eliminate drone. Anyway, congrats for finally finishing the exhaust topic :)
I 2nd the option of putting the flowmaster back on and keeping the magnaflow 2nd muffler. I think this may help bring some of the unique sound back while hoping the magnaflow deadens the drone. Some people just don't understand exhausts and sounds and think what they bolt on is fine, in all fairness the majority sound fairly decent. But just as you, we have a specific sound in mind and trial/error is what's needed to achieve that. I have yet to change the exhaust on my 2014+ Silverado as I haven't found the perfect sound I'm looking for. This spring/summer is when testing begins and your data helps me get started.
Sounds way better now, got rid of the raspy yee yee squatted truck sound when it revs up. Ditch the x pipe and it'll get a little deeper and still not have that poppy straight piped dual 4 inch chrome tips sound that everybody ran back in the 90s. Keep up the content LT!
I just went through this on my TBSS! Firts I used Borla Pro FX, it sucks, then I changed it to a Carven race bullet & that sucked too. Then finally on the 3rd try in a week I ended up with long tubes, 3" into a Y pipe, 3" into a 71229 Flowmaster FlowFX with 3" out to the rear bumper and it sounds killer! Sounds like a z06.
Nice, it sounds like this change got rid of almost all of the raspy/poppy sound from the last system. Bonus is that it sounds like it has a little deeper note too.
Sounds much quieter. I did like the last one better but I didn’t experience the drone and it’s your truck. Enjoy! I like the old school lopy rumble sound.
I like the exhaust you did on red tie on trucktech the way you designed it to go into the look of the Corvette tail pipes that would probably look really good on that style of truck
It’s amazing how hard it can be to find the perfect exhaust note. The idle sound is much quieter than I prefer but sounds good on accel! I switched to black widow mufflers and highly recommend them!
They both sounded good. I'm running really unique on my 355 in my truck, long tube headers in to x-pipe to dual rattler mufflers and 3" tails out the back.
The new exhaust is definitely improved. Both inside and out. But I think you need to stuff a resonator in the middle somewhere. It still has a little to much blatty blat blat instead of the v8 rumble, burble burble, snap and pop.
Reminds me of the multiple exhaust variations on my cars. Seems like you nailed it. My cls55 amg is still too quiet at full throttle, but all I have done is the addition of an xpipe and removal of the stock resonator. Maybe I should go aftermarket resonator and use different mufflers
Chambered vs Straight-Thru. Straight-Thru is nice if you have a long enough truck to get the muffler far enough away from the driver to get the volume out. But honestly, Chambered solves this problem 9 times out of 10. It disturbs the flow just enough that the resonance is cut way down. Went through this on both my Silverado and Tahoe, a chambered magnaflow is going to give you that best bang for buck. My Tahoe, I can't even hear when cruising, but when i roll the windows down and get on it, it'll light up.
Quiet inside the vehicle is a good thing. Sounds good on the outside especially when you get on it. IMO the X-pipe is doing nothing except adding expense. Probably doesn't make a change in the sound either. The outlet of the "X" needs to stay separated so that they can "scavenge" from each other as the exhaust pulses go by the "X". The "Y" pipe is doing as good of a job as it can all by itself. Pretty much as mufflers go the larger the case the quieter it will be, everything else being the same. In this case going from the small resonator to the larger "resonator" probably did most of the work. If you got rid of the "X" and wanted more flow you could use a dual 3" "Y" to a single 5" outlet running to a much longer and larger case 5" in/out muffler and keep the 4" tailpipe and muffler.
I like it, nice and “throaty” I had a buddy that always band clamped his mufflers cause he was the same way always changing it and tuning to his taste at that time. I’ve come to the same kind of thought, even if it sounds good I get board and wanna change it up. Great video man!
A rather simple fix if you dont need a great deal of clearance between the exhaust and differential to the bed. Simply place a spacer between the frame and bed to provide a little bit of clearance.
Love the content! Specially the muffler ones. Every one just sticks to one and deals with It. But I will say after a while the magnaflow will become a smidge louder over time giving It that right sound. Going on almost 2 years with my 3” in 3” out and just love It. Once I go turbo kinda wanna do what you did with the dual muffler 4” want stock like quiet till It gets up in rpm. Keep up the awesome work nd content 🤘🏻
I like this system a lot. it's a more aggressive sounding than stock with a stock-ish volume level at idle. Although if I had done it myself I would have probably tried clamping on the mufflers so I can switch them out easily. That way I could try all the combinations available and find which one I liked best and then welded it into place after trying them all.
what do you guys think of the idle? I kinda liked the flowmaster because it was a little unique, although this system is SOOO much better.
What if you kept the flow master and used the smaller magnaflow as a resonator. Also I would ditch the x pipe.
@@ericvortecmax exactly what I'm thinking.
Love the new setup
Cut outs sound good at idle
Try aeroturbine 3535XL...or 4040XL...whatever size you are running, they make them in the diameter you'll need. This has a resonator in it. If need be can always add an external on near the tailpipe too.
LT will never have to fight one of his exhausts off his vehicles due to them rusting together…because the system was just off the week prior to change the way it sounds. 😂 Just kidding. I admire the perfectionist in you. Keep up the great content!
I would maybe look into a Corsa.
Quiet idle, cruise, but the cold starts and full throttle wake the dead.
No drone at all. It's crazy
Love the maggies at WOT and smooth mellow at cruise sounds nice and sneaky at idle on the throttle 2011 4.8 Silverado sounds nice exit down past rear bumper no resonance. Maggies will get louder when broke in. Used to like loud all the time when younger now older like sleepers look and sound stock but when the green light pops the BS Stops.
The hush power was definitely unique and sounded great now its like a lot of other trucks
I use dynomax ultra flow mufflers. Quiet under low load, but really loud under full throttle. ZERO drone during any and all driving conditions
Tough place to be, you’d probably be happy with a vacuum operated cutout that would redirect it before the quiet muffler, and at WOT it would either dump it or direct it into a loud muffler like a carven or black widow type muffler.
I have a black widow race venom on a cammed 5.3L. It’s STUPID loud at WOT. Sounds beautiful but it’s really obnoxious.
When I was a kid I loved Flowmaster. When I grew up, I liked straight through design like Magnaflow.
Should have kept the Hushpower with one of the Magnaflows. Would have been unique for sure. I'm with you on preferring the quiter exhaust though.
I thought the same thing. Keep what gives the desired sound and change what allows for adjustment of the volume of the desired sound. But hey, I’m not an exhaust engineer either.
Love my Magnaflows on my 5.7 Hemi Charger Pursuit. Occasionally, I wish they were a little louder. But I don’t actually wish that enough to replace them something louder…for now 🤣
Exhaust cutouts are key IMO, I'm gonna be doing some 40 or 60 series muffler ahead of flowmaster FX's, and I'm gonna do a double cutout to either bypass the first muffler or bypass both to a side exit
@@Prestiged_peck I'm actually running a FlowFX on my car. It's an old 1.8 turbo Audi. No resonator or anything and I am amazed at how quite it is. And it doesn't sound like a little Honda fart can! Which let's me honest that's the best part. Ever since I built the exhaust I wanted a cut-out, just never did it...
@@4BillC the butterfly ones are better, they all leak just a bit but the pocket door style ones jam so easy, the butterfly valve ones are just plain better.
@@Prestiged_peck good to know although I'm not sure what what you mean by "pocket door." i never really looked into them and the few I've seen where all butterfly valves, some electrical some vacuum.
I held off buying that exhaust hangar removal tool for years thinking it wasn't worth it and what a mistake that was. That tool is so awesome when you remove and reinstall exhaust systems over and over, it's one of my favorite seldom used tools now. Its so cool to see you get to spend the time necessary to make a truck the way you want and not just deal with it the way it was because of time constraints or it was a sponsored part.
resonators tend to work better the closer they are to the downpipe/manifolds
I think your truck sounds really good now. I like the way you analyze all the elements of the exhaust system and their impact on the final sound. Especially once it is applied to different rpm, idle, rev and so on. Talking about x-pipe, in my opinion, it gives a noticeable effect on dual exhaust which is not the case here. So it is why you can't hear much of the difference. I enjoyed watching you video, greetings from Poland!
This exhaust sounds the best…imo. I like how “quiet” it sounds at cruising speed but sound incredible when you open it up!!! Nice job!!
that is one great thing about it. loud when you want it, but quiet when you need it
That sounds so much better! I don’t see how people can stand driving around all of the time with something like the old system. Good choice.
LT, bruh hear me out...on my 06 silverado 5.3 I welded a true dual 2.5" dual X pipe equal length straight pipe exhaust with bullet converters and I freakin love it!!! The cold start is amazing, has that vette rev sound and is not ignorantly loud by any means under normal conditions. You have to listen for it on the interstate at 2500 rpm at 75mph. It's and extended cab and the exhaust runs straight out the back like a raptor. I'm build a chevy version of a raptor because I can and I can't afford one, nor am I a ford guy. So I'm building a chevy raptor suspension and all and an 8.1 2005 suburban 4x4 2500 lowered tow vehicle for my 30' scarab. Thank you for the inspiration!!
That Flowmaster did have a great, unique sound to it, but i definitely understand the drone dilemma lol. This magnaflow system sounds beautiful under throttle from the outside, and will get a little louder over time as those mufflers break in. I'd say you are definitely on the right track now man, cant wait to see, or hear whats in store next!
You go through so many exhausts🤣 hope you like this one
lol, no kidding. So far, I think this one is the winner.
Can’t wait to work on my 02 stepside, building a new garage soon and I’ll finally have room
I think it sounds like almost exactly what you were shooting for. A younger version of me would be laughing but me right now, I think I'm on your side here
I used a 31" long Cherry Bomb "Salute" muffler. It's 4" ID. I'm also using a 3"x24" summit racing glasspack after my 3" y-pipe. I've got almost 5' of muffler on my 1992 C1500 pickup with an old tbi 350. It has a nice deep sound from the 4" ID muffler and tailpipe. But it is pretty mellow because I have 2 mufflers. They are both a glasspack style muffler. Zero restriction for my 190hp. Lol. My other truck is loud.. with a 5"IDx9"long resonator as a muffler on a 650hp supercharged 355. This one can be mellow.
To get my cammed and headed 5.3 tontame down for daily driving i ended up with LT's, cooks high flow cats, vibrant resonator, and magnaflow muffler... all in mandrel 3". It sounds sick now. Different than any other LS trick for sure. Good stuff LFlT, the combination is part of the fun
Lol I love alternating and having various different setups, some people may think you're crazy but you know what the perfect sound is, I finally found mine so I know what it's like!
I like watching your projects but I hope you are happy with the exhaust bc I’m ready to see the actual build of the step side
Ok this has to be the best one yet. Drone on the other has got to make ya crazy. Nice work LT.
I for one think you nailed it! It sounds great at cruise and ferocious as hell when you get on it!!! Kudos also for the Doppler affect sound shot…never would’ve guessed a 4.8 could sound so mean!!!
I love exhaust content. Since I’ve owned cars my favorite thing to mess with is exhaust. Changed the exhaust on my car many times. I totally get it!
Truck definitely sounds much better, and wow - that mountain view at the end....spectacular!
it is pretty around here for sure
Also the take off from the outside is phenomenal
Sounds great LT!!! I used to do that with my 1978 C10 with a 1972 full bolt money 350 in it bored over 30 over 355 tons of fun with that truck
A lot of people dont realize that the mufflers with sound deadening packing inside is muffled till 500 to 1000 miles then the sound deadening material shrinks down from the heat and will give the exhaust some more tone. I put the flow master FX mufflers on my 82 D150 . the internals are the dame as magnaflows and borla but half the price. I had 2 40 series flow masters but had too much drone and sounded like your original muffler exhaust going down the highway that's why I switched
LT you took the words right out of my mouth, the comment you made about having your cake and eating it too. I think you can get that sound back if you just do an electronic cut, then you can have that sound back when you want it
One of the signs I think of getting older I think is liking things a little quieter, I would take the trade off of a less aggressive sounding idle than normal driving annoyance. I went a similar route years ago coming from a x-pipe and dual 3” magnaflow with 3” tailpipes that dropped inside the factory hitch, that was with 1.75 pacesetter headers and no cats. Now I run 1 7/8 kooks headers still with no cats to a 2500hd factory muffler back. My truck is a 1/2 ton crew cab 5’ 8” box 2006, a 2500hd ext cab 6.5ft box 6.0L exhaust fit right into the same hangars! It’s quiet unless my foot is in it and has a distinct idle. I didn’t mention yet but it is a bolt-on 6.0L LQ9 truck
In my experience the magnaflows will get louder over time, so be prepared for that. My favorite exhaust setup I have had has been a Stock muffler with a 4in tailpipe and inlet with an exhaust cutout before it. Ive used boost activated and electric cutouts and they each have their advantages, but overall work well for letting exhaust breathe and loud only when you want it. The stock muffler with the larger tailpipe will still have good sound at idle (depending on cam) but there is absolutely no drone at cruising RPM.
I had the same experience with Magnaflow mufflers when I used one in my car project.
5.0L into a 2.5" double inlet and outlet Magnaflow, and it slowly got to the point that friends could tell when I was arriving, from around 5 blocks away. Not romping on it, just barely idling along.
I ended up getting a pair of 24" long 2.25" glass packs installed ahead of the muffler just to knock the noise back down to tolerable levels.
My personal favorite muffler on any LS is the borla. I did a 6.2l swap into my 09 avalanche and a full 3" pipe kit. I deleted my cats also since there is no emissions test here in Alberta. The borla is also an exhaust most people don't use and I've had many comments on the uniqueness of my trucks sound. Just my two bits. Love your builds BTW.
Love the doughnuts to finish the video right next to a neighborhood, you should add an electronic cut out in front of second muffler for rowdy mode, I think it sounds fantastic but it did tone it down quite a bit, I've always loved the magnaflow product
LT, I think it sounds awesome! Kind of a sleeper as you cruise but has some nice bark when you open it up. Good job!
I do like the Hushpower better, but I love loud pipes. I put a Flow FX on my 1995 stock OBS truck and it sounds great. Keep up the great work LT.
Building an exhaust with the tig is definitely one of your favorite activities. You created exhaust art in your old job, and now in your garage. Fun to watch. It would be cool if you got to nerd out and do a tig basics video series 👍
well thanks! and that's a good idea for video content as well
I agree. Would love that
Those Magnaflows will get a little louder over time. Once the packing in the mufflers seasons from driving.
Imo the x and y is a huge factor in redundancy the y is giving you all performance benefits and the x contributes to droan sound. I think your just showing off with your welding skills. Keep on doing what you do and thanks for sharing. Definitely sounds better not like cherry bombs anymore and hell yeah let the smoke out of them tires!
Not gonna lie you doing exhaust is my favorite vids to watch!
Looks so good!
Both setups sounded good to me. I'm glad you're happy with the end result!
Have you ever heard the phrase "Living the Dream"? All the knowledge and skill to build what you want all at home. "I'm tryna be like you, mah boy" 🤘
I do thank my lucky stars I'm able to work from home and build fun stuff like this. living the dream for sure. thanks for watching!
Much better! Sounds less like every challenger and charger on the road. I struggled to get my 8.1 burb to the sound level I wanted. I ran dual resonators, a magnaflow dual 3” in dial 3” out with the internal x pipe, merged them into a single 4” to go over the axle then added a vibrant 4” muffler to a turn down. It is still a little loud but the tone is great. This was also after 3 iterations.
I bought a 3500 with an 8.1 this fall. I thought about swapping out the stock exhaust but I am afraid that it will just be too loud so I am just going to keep it stock. I can go for a ride in my Checker if I want to hear a louder exhaust.
That hush with the bigger magna would be awesome to hear
Like how it sounds now. Calm at driving speeds and gets aggressive when getting on the gas. 🤘🏻
I know you probably don't want to change it again but I highly recommend building the exhaust Equal length before the Y. You'll be amazed that it'll sound just like an LS powered car rather than having that 2500-3k rpm clap sound that all trucks have from the unequal length exhaust. Keep everything you have in regards to the back half of the exhaust, but build it equal length from the Headers to the Y. You'll be amazed at the difference.
Good luck getting that perfect sound out of an LS based engine. The damn things are just raspy as all hell
My go to muffler is the Flowmaster Pro Laminar. Technically a straight through with two conical baffles that direct gasses to cut rasp and drone.
Had a 95 Roadmaster wagon with the LT1, and installed mid length headers, magnaflow x-pipe, and just two of the small resonators to 3" tips behind the wheels. SOUNDED AWESOME with the unique vette tone. Maybe you could try with and without the muffler, or go full dual exhaust with just the two resonators in a future test video
Oh man! I miss those Roadmasters! I would LOVE to find one of those or a Caddy Fleetwood in nice shape with relatively low miles. I’d of course have to mess around with the exhaust a little and make just a few little cosmetic and performance mods to make it unique but nothing crazy, gaudy or over the top.
The exhaust won't get that hot near the bed heat shield. The exhaust would get hot near a restriction, but with free-flowing exhaust you won't have that much heat when cruising. Hard acceleration might heat it up, but there is a lot of surface area to dissipate the heat so it won't be hot for long.
I've found drone to be a result of unequal cat back segments. For instance the 8.1l has the driverside jump over to the passenger side, adding some 2/3 feet of tube. This will cause the tubes themselves to vibrate on different frequencies, like to guitar stings oscillating when almost in tune. The fix being to make them equal eg; tune them. Just measure header flange back, and make them the same length by adding or removing some same diameter segments as needed...like tuning any other thing lol.
I like the deep tone of the magnaflows. Sounds great.
Yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head this time,sounds sweet,and still flows really well.
It sounds so good! I will say we are the same in terms of sound on the vehicles. Absolutely quiet on the road but a bit of a monster when that pedal is down. Almost sleeper-like 😁
Sounds good! I added another muffler to my truck and got a similar sound! Keep up the great work!!
Power adder, AWD, with 4:30's! That stepside is going to be a very fun truck! Can't wait to see the results. Looking forward to the 4:30's swap; will be doing the same myself.
You know your getting old when truck is never quiet enough lol. I know how u feel used to love loud exhaust don't care much about it now. You'll get it right man.
Love your content, man!! Keep up the good work. I enjoy watching you’re videos every week
thanks for watching!
Back in the day the old 283 and 327 too...they had a lot different note than a 350 or 400...even cams sound different in those...keep chasing you find what your looking for.... keep up the good work
Oh, I wish you had chosen to do a Helmholtz resonator for the Flowmaster to eliminate drone. Anyway, congrats for finally finishing the exhaust topic :)
sound like a truck nice deep tone til you get on it sounds good now
I 2nd the option of putting the flowmaster back on and keeping the magnaflow 2nd muffler. I think this may help bring some of the unique sound back while hoping the magnaflow deadens the drone. Some people just don't understand exhausts and sounds and think what they bolt on is fine, in all fairness the majority sound fairly decent. But just as you, we have a specific sound in mind and trial/error is what's needed to achieve that. I have yet to change the exhaust on my 2014+ Silverado as I haven't found the perfect sound I'm looking for. This spring/summer is when testing begins and your data helps me get started.
Keep trying the exhaust I’ll keep watching!!
lt THATS THE BEST SOUNDING EXHAUST IVE HEARD IN A WHILE
The new exhaust sounds much better. Smooth deep growl.
Nice to see you rock cleets sweater, love the content, love ugly truck can't wait for the motor build. Keep up the content
Sounds way better now, got rid of the raspy yee yee squatted truck sound when it revs up. Ditch the x pipe and it'll get a little deeper and still not have that poppy straight piped dual 4 inch chrome tips sound that everybody ran back in the 90s. Keep up the content LT!
This new setup is awesome. Sounds perfect
Still sounds really good. It's just lost a little of the crackle it had before. Nice donuts!
I just went through this on my TBSS! Firts I used Borla Pro FX, it sucks, then I changed it to a Carven race bullet & that sucked too. Then finally on the 3rd try in a week I ended up with long tubes, 3" into a Y pipe, 3" into a 71229 Flowmaster FlowFX with 3" out to the rear bumper and it sounds killer! Sounds like a z06.
It's a lot quieter now than before.. but remember that magnaflows usually break in after a few weeks to a month. It will get a little louder.
You got rid of the “brapping”. Classy now.
I didn’t like the way the truck sounded before. I think it sounds perfect now. 👌🏻It even sounds good from far away! 😃
Nice, it sounds like this change got rid of almost all of the raspy/poppy sound from the last system. Bonus is that it sounds like it has a little deeper note too.
Sounds great! Can't wait for the TURBO build!
Sounds much quieter. I did like the last one better but I didn’t experience the drone and it’s your truck. Enjoy! I like the old school lopy rumble sound.
I like the exhaust you did on red tie on trucktech the way you designed it to go into the look of the Corvette tail pipes that would probably look really good on that style of truck
It’s amazing how hard it can be to find the perfect exhaust note. The idle sound is much quieter than I prefer but sounds good on accel! I switched to black widow mufflers and highly recommend them!
I have a black widow on my serria and it’s grear
Thumbs up. I’m a big fan of the Flowmaster 50 series. Good luck.
Sounds awesome..doesn't sound like "any other truck ".. it's badass...🏁
The stepwise sounds much better with the new setup. Great video.
They both sounded good. I'm running really unique on my 355 in my truck, long tube headers in to x-pipe to dual rattler mufflers and 3" tails out the back.
I have the old school 2 chamber Flowmaster on My Mustang. Only changed the muffler, all factory with cats. Just enough sound!
No other trucks have that Chevy chopping sound. I cut the pipes after my cats in my avalanche and just left it like that. Free flow it sounded good.
The new exhaust is definitely improved. Both inside and out. But I think you need to stuff a resonator in the middle somewhere. It still has a little to much blatty blat blat instead of the v8 rumble, burble burble, snap and pop.
Reminds me of the multiple exhaust variations on my cars. Seems like you nailed it. My cls55 amg is still too quiet at full throttle, but all I have done is the addition of an xpipe and removal of the stock resonator. Maybe I should go aftermarket resonator and use different mufflers
I am not very good at welding but I do enjoy working on exhaust too. The new exhaust sounds great.
Sounds perfect, imo. Best yet by far.
Love your content LT, hope one day you could come out to Vegas for some Drag days
Love the sound of the truck now! Much better, well worth the effort I would say! Thanks for the video, excited to see more
Chambered vs Straight-Thru.
Straight-Thru is nice if you have a long enough truck to get the muffler far enough away from the driver to get the volume out.
But honestly, Chambered solves this problem 9 times out of 10. It disturbs the flow just enough that the resonance is cut way down.
Went through this on both my Silverado and Tahoe, a chambered magnaflow is going to give you that best bang for buck. My Tahoe, I can't even hear when cruising, but when i roll the windows down and get on it, it'll light up.
Quiet inside the vehicle is a good thing. Sounds good on the outside especially when you get on it. IMO the X-pipe is doing nothing except adding expense. Probably doesn't make a change in the sound either. The outlet of the "X" needs to stay separated so that they can "scavenge" from each other as the exhaust pulses go by the "X". The "Y" pipe is doing as good of a job as it can all by itself. Pretty much as mufflers go the larger the case the quieter it will be, everything else being the same. In this case going from the small resonator to the larger "resonator" probably did most of the work. If you got rid of the "X" and wanted more flow you could use a dual 3" "Y" to a single 5" outlet running to a much longer and larger case 5" in/out muffler and keep the 4" tailpipe and muffler.
I like it, nice and “throaty” I had a buddy that always band clamped his mufflers cause he was the same way always changing it and tuning to his taste at that time. I’ve come to the same kind of thought, even if it sounds good I get board and wanna change it up. Great video man!
A rather simple fix if you dont need a great deal of clearance between the exhaust and differential to the bed.
Simply place a spacer between the frame and bed to provide a little bit of clearance.
Love the content! Specially the muffler ones. Every one just sticks to one and deals with It. But I will say after a while the magnaflow will become a smidge louder over time giving It that right sound. Going on almost 2 years with my 3” in 3” out and just love It. Once I go turbo kinda wanna do what you did with the dual muffler 4” want stock like quiet till It gets up in rpm. Keep up the awesome work nd content 🤘🏻
I ran a dynomax 3"x24" race bullet on my 2.3 turbo. It sounded awesome 😁
Love it LT .amazing work as always
I like it! It sounds so much smoother.
Ever considered an electric cut out? The set up you got now sounds good to me!
I like this system a lot. it's a more aggressive sounding than stock with a stock-ish volume level at idle. Although if I had done it myself I would have probably tried clamping on the mufflers so I can switch them out easily. That way I could try all the combinations available and find which one I liked best and then welded it into place after trying them all.