Ok, I've added a K&N air filter to my car and have recently added dual exhaust. I have two dynomax welded ultra-flo mufflers. I plan on redoing my pipes in about a week or so. My plan is to do one of two things:
1) Install one muffler near the catalytic converter and have 2.5" pipe all the way through. Split the pipes at a y to go to duals.
2) Increase the pipe diameter to 2.5" but have the traditional install of a y-split towards the rear and use two muflers at the rear as well.
My personal preference would be to go with option 1, considering it would most likely be louder (hotter and higher velocity exhaust gases near the cat) and there probably wouldn't be any draw back that i know of. Currently, I'm set with option 2, except with crappy stock pipe...that feels way too restrictive. My actual question is pertaining to option 1, would there be any drawbacks to doing it that way as far as damage or performance losses???
Thanks for the help.