I own a 97 chevy thunder with a 4.3 vortec. ive swapped the stock muffler for a cherry bomb vortex and it sounds decent, but its not loud enough and i know it could sound better. unfortunatley im a college student so i dont have wads of cash to throw around, but i have some. it would be easy enough to run true duels, but im looking for suggestions on what i should do, and what i should purchase. im not a gear head so i dont know too much, but id like some help. thanks

 

take off the cat and just pop a straight pipe on there

 

Well what are you mainly wanting?? More sound or performance??

 

mainly just sound. not too concerned about preformance yet because i dont have to money to put in the motor

 

I had a '95 C1500 W/T that I bought new and put 190K on. It had the 4.3 with homemade CAI, TBS, pulleys, and a simple 3" cat-back with a 2-chamber Flowmaster, then a 90* dumping right in front of the pass side rear tire. Sounded great, was cheap, local shop did it, and didn't resonate on the highway. Your motor is a little different and a little more power but I would expect it to do well with just CAI, pulleys and the Flowmaster I described. If you have auto, do a street/strip shift kit. My truck wasn't the fastest but it was fun and ran great for what it was. 20mpg all the time. RT

 

Yeah there is all kind of combonations you could do. But ill tell you right now friend, just becuz its loud, doesn't mean its fast. If you want the cheapest ways to get some power let me know.