i am going to be having a custom exhaust made for my camaro, it already has hooker shorty headers, and ends with 2 flowtech 2 1/2 "flowtech warlocks under the drivers seat, it has temporary exhaust on it now, so i will have hooker shorties to 2 1/2" pipe, to the muffler right before the rearend , and then pipe to around the rear bumper, will this sound good, and how much do you think a shop would charge to build , and bend the pipe,

 

make sure if you are doing duals, you have a crossover pipe of some sort. not only does it change the sound (for the better) but it also helps power production by increasing exhaust scavaging.

 

do you mean like an x-pipe or h-pipe

 

exactly right. x pipe will help upper rpm power moreso than an h pipe. but an h pipe will help out a little with bottom end torque. x pipe will also sound a little more exotic or higher pitched but you have to really know what your listening for to notice a difference. i would go x pipe as a v8 doesnt need any help with torque production.