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I know I am making many new posts regarding upgrades... but my new job is going to start paying a lot better soon, and I want my Subaru to run better too!

Would running two pipes, one from each head offer much of a performance increase? I assume it would sound totally kickass from behind, with some dual chamber mufflers or less.

I could probably have a local pipe bender do it for not much more than a few hundred $$$, including the mufflers, and dual "cats ".

Difficult packaging with the second muffler unless you have them both come out the same side.

Steve

They would have to come out on each side for the sound .

I will look into it a bit more, just wanted to see if anybody had personal experience with this.

You'd have to make the piping be a bit smaller, or you're going to lose too much velocity, and it's just not going to yield any gains.

I had a buddy in memphis who had true dual exhaust on his SVX. It was a little raspier, but sounded pretty good.

Josh has got it!

You'd have to run 1" pipes from each side (and have a connecting bit to make sure flow is even).

Probably would sound pretty cool, but a straight pipe will sound pretty cool too

Yeah, you'll lose scavenging properties on a large exhaust with only 2 cylinders.

Steve

it may be helpful to use a dual-pipe muffler... one muffler with two cores running through it. I'm not very familiar with the underside of legacies, but that would probably be the easiest way to package a dual exhaust.

there are a few companies that sell them... magnaflow, burns stainless, probably some others too.

If you want your Suby to run better, don't go with two separate pipes. You're going to regret it. When I was into air-cooled VW Bugs, the 4-into-1 header setup was the best. All those that went to the 2-into-2 setups (like dunebuggies) regretted it. It made their Bugs run worse, noticeably worse. Less power, less torque, less gas mileage, but MORE frustration!