If any of you guys have the 99-up nbs and have longtubes you probably know how hard it is to fit in the cats without having to get custom ypipe made well i didnt,I just bought 2 3 inch magnaflow spun cats which are about 9" total length and band clamped them out to the longtubes then reduced the...
Id do full tune up,plugs,wires,etc then replace that air filter with something better flowing like a afe/k&n,it looks the same air filter I had on my c2500.Also Id clean the throttle body.Not sure what kind of exhaust system they have but due to its size probably has a muffler the size of a 275...
Well obviously its something you messed during the install,so just go over everything you did,Also scan it even if you don't have a ses light on.You could of easily but a adapter to extend the
o2 wires.
Well anyway you look at it the shorties are 100% better then the manifolds,i noticed a difference on my tbi with the shorties.I can only imagine the gain with the longtubes.
I don't think the intake would be worth porting or buy aftermarket on a stock 5.3L,after headers,cam then I would do the intake and no doubt would gain a good 15+hp.
I don't understand why a flowmaster 10 would be louder then the cherry bomb extreme when internal they are the same.Personally id run a straight through muffler like a dynomax bullet.