Acesneights1
New Member
Well my Diamond eye exhaust came today from Leroy(PMDcable.com).
First let me vent but before i do this has nothing to do with Leroy. it would not matter who you buy it from whether it be leroy or some other vendor, the stuff gets drop shipped from the manufacturer...OK That said I want to take a UPS package handler, beat him to a bloody pulp and then dump him on the CEO of UPS' front door and say "How does it feel asshole ?"
The friggin box came completely destroyed and open. Miraculously nothing was damged and the parts were all there.(see pics). Unreal...
Ok rant over a now onto the product. You guys know I don't hold back and suffer from wielding a my sense of honesty like a blunt instrument so when I say the pipe was good quality you know I mean it and it was. For the price it was very good and fit overall pretty good for an out of the box system. I had to screw with it a little and the hangers they give you don't line up worth spit save for the rear one so expect to mess with them a little. I will probably redo them with cut offs from the factory system. I used a few band clamps rather than the supplied ubolt clamps so if I need to remove the system for any reason it should come apart nicely. Now every application is different but to save someone else a few minutes of head scratching put the back side of the downpipe up above the crossmember for the torsion bars first , then snake it to the manifold. You can do the downpipe without removing the inner wheel well by just removing the Air cleaner but it was a PIA. I may remove the wheel well next time I do one. The downpipe fit with no issue which really pisses me off with why GM felt it nessicary to squash the factory one. Although you are only supposed to cut the straight piece of pipe they give you, I had to cut the tail pipe an inch shorter where it goes into the muffler. I could not move the muffler anymore forward because it would not line up with the factory hanger then. No biggie. Again, it's an out of the box system, expect to do some tweaking. Really my only complaints were the directions suck . I mean it's pretty self explanatory but it would have save some time if I knew which hanger went where but I figured it out. The short one with the twist to it goes to the back. That one fit good, the others not so good but an easy fix. Bottom line I got a kick ass 4 inch system for 300$. How the hell can you beat that ??
Now....The factory system...WTF ???:???::???::???:
I mean we all know the downpipes suck but I have never seen a soot trap like this truck has. Look how squashed the pipe is and then they put a heat shield on it ?? WHY ?? It's not near anything ?? GM Morons.... I don't get it.
On a side note the muffler is actually kinda quiet compared to the one on my dually. it's nice.
Thanks to Leroy for the fast order as well. It took me about 2.5 hrs to do but alot of that was saving the old system. 13 yrs old and it looks like the day it was put on so I took it off without cutting it. It's really ashame. GM used such good pipe but it was the wrong size...:agreed:
First let me vent but before i do this has nothing to do with Leroy. it would not matter who you buy it from whether it be leroy or some other vendor, the stuff gets drop shipped from the manufacturer...OK That said I want to take a UPS package handler, beat him to a bloody pulp and then dump him on the CEO of UPS' front door and say "How does it feel asshole ?"
The friggin box came completely destroyed and open. Miraculously nothing was damged and the parts were all there.(see pics). Unreal...
Ok rant over a now onto the product. You guys know I don't hold back and suffer from wielding a my sense of honesty like a blunt instrument so when I say the pipe was good quality you know I mean it and it was. For the price it was very good and fit overall pretty good for an out of the box system. I had to screw with it a little and the hangers they give you don't line up worth spit save for the rear one so expect to mess with them a little. I will probably redo them with cut offs from the factory system. I used a few band clamps rather than the supplied ubolt clamps so if I need to remove the system for any reason it should come apart nicely. Now every application is different but to save someone else a few minutes of head scratching put the back side of the downpipe up above the crossmember for the torsion bars first , then snake it to the manifold. You can do the downpipe without removing the inner wheel well by just removing the Air cleaner but it was a PIA. I may remove the wheel well next time I do one. The downpipe fit with no issue which really pisses me off with why GM felt it nessicary to squash the factory one. Although you are only supposed to cut the straight piece of pipe they give you, I had to cut the tail pipe an inch shorter where it goes into the muffler. I could not move the muffler anymore forward because it would not line up with the factory hanger then. No biggie. Again, it's an out of the box system, expect to do some tweaking. Really my only complaints were the directions suck . I mean it's pretty self explanatory but it would have save some time if I knew which hanger went where but I figured it out. The short one with the twist to it goes to the back. That one fit good, the others not so good but an easy fix. Bottom line I got a kick ass 4 inch system for 300$. How the hell can you beat that ??
Now....The factory system...WTF ???:???::???::???:
I mean we all know the downpipes suck but I have never seen a soot trap like this truck has. Look how squashed the pipe is and then they put a heat shield on it ?? WHY ?? It's not near anything ?? GM Morons.... I don't get it.
On a side note the muffler is actually kinda quiet compared to the one on my dually. it's nice.
Thanks to Leroy for the fast order as well. It took me about 2.5 hrs to do but alot of that was saving the old system. 13 yrs old and it looks like the day it was put on so I took it off without cutting it. It's really ashame. GM used such good pipe but it was the wrong size...:agreed:
