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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 03:20 PM
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A couple questions

First, headlights. I bought some Diamond White lights from Recon. They were horrible. Regular halogen bulbs would have been brighter. Anyone had any experience with these lights? Are there any better choices other than going to HID? I have used the Silverstar before with good luck. Second question is the exhaust. Will i gain much more going to the 4" turbo back straight pipe over just taking the cat and muffler out with just the 3.5".

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Originally Posted by pcg7849
First, headlights. I bought some Diamond White lights from Recon. They were horrible. Regular halogen bulbs would have been brighter. Anyone had any experience with these lights? Are there any better choices other than going to HID? I have used the Silverstar before with good luck. Second question is the exhaust. Will i gain much more going to the 4" turbo back straight pipe over just taking the cat and muffler out with just the 3.5".

Thanks.
I went HID with Silverstar ultra II's or something like that and love them for highway driving. Plenty of light and I don't putter.

On a stock truck with a stock turbo you'll be just fine deleting the cat and muffler with 3.5" pipe. If you get a tuner then you might want to go 3.5" downpipe to 4" back, which is what I run. 4" turbo back is just a PIA, IMHO. Hard to work with if you have to remove the turbo, and it's laggier from take off.
 
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