Best header back exhaust package for a 1985 K10 short bed

[Broken85]

Evening fellas! I am lining up my winter project and planning to swap the Jasper motor out of my shortbed for a Blue Print 340hp TBI turnkey. I am looking for recommendations on a header-back exhaust system with side vent pipes. Plenty of stuff out there for long beds, just not seeing what I want for a short beds (I assume it is the same as a K5???). Looking for a mild exhaust maybe a three chamber flow master-ish sound. I would really prefer to not Frankenstein this from a bunch of vendors, but looking for anyone who has purchased a full kit that worked well and didn’t have you pulling your hair out since I am going to have to obviously turn this truck into a dual exhaust system with new hangers and such

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[Nasty-LSX]

I got your exhaust! Money talks!!

https://www.gmsquarebody.com/threads/hooker-blackheart-exhaust-system-all-stainless-works-with-ls-or-gen1-engines-cheap.41184/#post-920969

 

[75gmck25]

Most universal kits (priced under about $125-$150, without mufflers) have instructions for both short and long bed trucks. You just leave out or shorten one of the intermediate pipes.

The hangers they provide are usually inexpensive universal hangars. They work, but are nothing like OEM.

I think the exhaust kit I bought was from Flotech, and it looked the same as everything else in that price range. I used the Magnaflow straight through mufflers and an H-pipe and they have a nice mellow tone at idle, but sound really good when revved up.

 

[CalSgt]

IIRC the difference between a LB or SB kit is the length of the first straight section as it leaves the mufflers. Many kits just require cutting that pipe to length.

 

[84c10Tony]

I would get nasty with it, matter of fact, Nasty LSX has what you really need, he knows stuff.

 

[TotalyHucked]

Just curious, do you not have an exhaust shop close by? The few people that I personally know that have tried exhaust "kits" for these trucks were less than impressed. I've always just gone to a muffler shop and had it done

 

[Broken85]

Just curious, do you not have an exhaust shop close by? The few people that I personally know that have tried exhaust "kits" for these trucks were less than impressed. I've always just gone to a muffler shop and had it done

Yeah, I hear ya. Definetly would be the easy button. I figure, if I am doing all the work of swapping a TBI motor into it by myself, I might as well keep the whole job DIY for bragging rights. That truck hasn’t been to a mechanic in over 25 years. Except for the paint, there is only one guy who has ever worked on that truck since I bought it. But I have to admit, dropping it off for some mandrel bent welded stainless steal pipes is pretty tempting.

 

[bucket]

Just curious, do you not have an exhaust shop close by? The few people that I personally know that have tried exhaust "kits" for these trucks were less than impressed. I've always just gone to a muffler shop and had it done

I've run the Hooker and Dynomax kits for these trucks, many years ago. For the cost at the time, fit was great. I much preferred the look of the Hooker exhaust because of the quality mandrel bends. Dynomax was crush bent.

 

[CalSgt]

I've run the Hooker and Dynomax kits for these trucks, many years ago. For the cost at the time, fit was great. I much preferred the look of the Hooker exhaust because of the quality mandrel bends. Dynomax was crush bent.

My first set of duals was a Hooker 2.25” kit from the PAW catalog, IIRC the pipe kit was around $200 and two $29 super turbo Hooker mufflers. That kit and a little cam and I had one of the better sounding trucks in town

 

[TotalyHucked]

I've run the Hooker and Dynomax kits for these trucks, many years ago. For the cost at the time, fit was great. I much preferred the look of the Hooker exhaust because of the quality mandrel bends. Dynomax was crush bent.

I did know there's a couple decent kits online from talking to you and a couple other guys, but I've never known anyone "in real life" that's had good luck with any of them. But none of them were the Hooker

 

[89Suburban]

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