with Banks your just buying the name. Its like a bose system vs a non bose system. They both put out the same performance wise but one looks better, but your just paying for the name in the end...

Sled pullers use stacks because the rules for the majority of pulls state that your exhaust must exit upwards... Some people have an underbead exhaust and when they pull they put a 90* on the exit and a pipe to direct the exhaust up.

 

Yup! I had an in bed box over my stacks on my 02

 

any issues with it and the stacks. Thankx rad for the info So aside from EGT's, which if you are worrying about 100 deg then you probably have other issues, there is no difference

 

Nope!

Preference

 

Thankx again for the info guys

 

as stated above with banks and some other larger named companies I will not say them out loud but you are gonna end up paying for the name.

with any exhaust you are planning I would post up a thread in the price quote section and the sponsors on this site will hook you up with some good deals.

 

I think it really depends on how big you want to go with your under bed exhuast. Ive seen people with 6 inches of pipe on there turbo back stacks. The biggest you can really go with an underbed is about 5 inches. So of course you will have more flow with stack. Also it depends on the angle of the curves in the exhaust . The tighter the angle the less flow. vise versa. Banks usually have mufflers and cats on them but as far as i know they have straight piped models as well. It really depends on your state if you can go straight piped or not. Like in new york we can. But cali i dont think so. staight piped you have better flow and almost all stacks are straight. Again it really comes down to preference. Banks i think is overpriced and really its just a pipe. You could cut your cat and muffler off and have the same outcome as a premade aftermarket exhaust.

 

I do understand what you said about Banks. The truck already came with Banks exhaust. I was just trying to find out the Pros and Cons of putting stacks on.

 

Pros: *looks good
*stands out
*sounds good, definite tone difference over underbed IMO
*keeps soot of the body/ no black spots on rear fender
Cons: *takes space out of the bed esepcially if you have dual stacks
*can be obnoxiously loud in the cab
*gets soot over tailgate and possibly over your roof if you do mitres or straight
cuts w/o covers

Depending if you do a single or dual system you could potentially raise or lower EGTs. But if your truck came with the Banks system I would keep it and just do a muffler delete so you have a "free" flowing exhaust.

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I'm sure theirs more but thats the things I looked at originally but after sled pulling a few times, I'm getting stacks no matter what the cons may be

 

I'm not saying Banks is a bad company, they just have overpriced products. If they have a tuner, another company has a better tuner, if they have an exhaust, another company has a cheaper exhaust that will perform the same. If you look in that Diesel Power magazine, you'll notice Banks by far has the most ad's, because generally, people new to the diesel game will but that magazine, and when they see those ad's, they'll buy the product. just about anyone who has been around diesels longer, will tell you you can get a product that will perform the same, or better than Banks, for cheaper. It's not that they are a bad company (I think they have a very successful business plan, getting all the new guys) but they are more expensive than others.

Another thing about Banks is they have a variety of products. While one company may just have a tuner and another company just makes exhaust systems, Banks has tuners, exhaust, intakes and all that good stuff. So guys can order everything they want from one place, rather than 3 or 4 different places, again a smart move by Banks.


I know around here, some guys in truck pulls still have their underbed exhaust, just to smoke the crowd out. Most guys in competition run a stack, just because they like it. It won't be a road truck, so they don't have to worry about getting pulled over for a loud exhaust, or whatever, plus they can have a truck they built, look how they want it. The guy my brother built a pulling truck for runs a hood stack, just because he likes it, not for any type of EGT reduction.

You also have to remember, in a competition truck, EGT's can get to 2000+, so they aren't to worried about what a stack will do to reduce EGT's.