hey snojob.. wrote >cannot help it if most of your customers are miss informed and you profit from this. Duals are greatly over rated on modern street 4x4's that sounds like a personal attack...that would be highly unprofessional now wouldn't it? now, if single exhaust is so much better, than why did so many small blck muscle cars roll off the line with duals? why did some camperspecials come with duals? why did my 1978 chev van with a small block 400 come factory with duals? why did almost anything built for power, before the "smog wars", come with duals?why did hooker headers put out a smallblock header dual kit and not a smallblock header to single exhaust kit?...because that's what people want...and just because you've been"messing" with 4x4s over 30 years that doesn't mean we should all cut off our duals.i think hooker has better test results than you...you have your results and opinions and i have mine..we are not not ever going to agree on the performance aspect.. i strongly disagree with you, based on what i've done and what i've seen, i have played with exhaust, duals and singles, on customer's cars, freind's cars, drag cars, stock cars and my own stuff...and i've had alot of stuff, trans ams, firebirds, a 5L mustang many other sport coupes, 1/2 dozen trucks and 4x4s, couple of k5 blazers, vans.SUVs and almost every one of them had some exhaust tweaking as far as i'm concerned, single into duals are the half assed way of doing it...i will install them if they don't have the cash for true duals or if they don't want to be too loud, but it's not my preference.But at the end of the day, what i want isn't important..i only suggest what i think will work good, show the options and let them decide... besides the question here was " how do i finish my dual exhaust" and not how much better YOU think single exhaust is! as for "hacking" on new er trucks..i'll leave that backyarders and weekend warriors..i do clean professional work, and that's all! you say people are miss informed and that the power gains are more a state of mind, but i'd rather have my truck sound good and perform the way I want it to, than pay money for something done not the way i want, but has a 5% increase of torque i may never notice.. it may only be a state of mind, but if you are happy with your investment and its the way you want it, there"s nothing more important that that... I don't hack up trucks, and i don't make things worse....i research what i do and look into the possible problems that could arise..i ask those who really know and talk to those who have done....i never enter into anything blind...yes newer trucks are tuned..... but for reliability, efficiency and low emissions, not performance. there is still some room to play...
redeye-racing