Help!! Can't find new Y-Pipe.

[chrisj3691]

Hey guys. Developed a nasty exhaust leak a couple days ago. Got under her and looked and sure enough the y pipe into the right manifold is rusted out. If I'm going to replace the y pipe I'm gonna get rid of the stock manifolds and throw some long tubes on there. But my problem is I cant find any y pipes for long tubes for my truck. The only y pipes i can find period are flowtechs, which mate to a certain flowtech header, none long tube. Besides i heard flowtechs are bad? any truth to that?? Well where can I find a y pipe, with no cat on it btw, for long tube headers? custom job?? Need some help and some opinions. Thanks in advance guys. Oh and truck is a 1994 Chevy k1500 Z71. 5.7 tbi.

[chrisj3691]

or would it better to just go with a custom H pipe?? any opinions?

[Doober]

Flowtech does make a set of OBS-specific longtube headers with a y-pipe, it's about $300-$350 for the whole setup iirc.

[winfred]

i saw a hedman set at jegs or summit with y pipe included that looked cool when i was shopping around for my oobs, wasn't cheap but if you can't scratch build a y pipe like me from U's and J's it would probably match prices or be cheaper then having a muffler shop build one, one may exist for your truck if they had one for my older rig

[1988 GMC 355]

GEt one custom built if you want to keep your stock manifolds

Edit: Get longtubes and have a custom built y pipe made, should run about $150

[Doober]

That would cost pretty much the same (or more) than the bolt-on longtube/y-pipe setup from Flowtech.

[1988 GMC 355]

HE asked for opinions. I think a set of Hookers coupled with a custom y pipe would fit much better and be of much better quality.

[Doober]

I have yet to see a muffler shop do a better job on a one-off than a company that designs vehicle-specific header/y-pipe setups.

[1988 GMC 355]

I have one in my town that does beyond top notch work.

[silverado_lover]

HE asked for opinions. I think a set of Hookers coupled with a custom y pipe would fit much better and be of much better quality.


I have one in my town that does beyond top notch work.

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[chrisj3691]

I've decided to go with hooker longtubes into a custom H pipe into two super 44's. no cats. I'm hoping it will sound really good. thanks for the opinions tho guys