Right on...it'd be great to see them step up proper for the 5.7L mill.
Mfr is already posted and confirmed on the thread
. No
please, this is legit. I'm familiar with the mfr, great designs and excellent customer service. They did a round for the 1st-gens, and I'm still happy with the price and performance of mine.
I can also understand why Imdone might not mention the company name at first. Several sets of their headers for the 1st-gens came back from the coater with a poor coat, which reflected badly on the header manufacturer even tho they had nothing to do with the coating. I believe they since switched coaters, and past issues with the coater are probably also why there's talk of stainless vs coated mild. In addition, there is a cut-rate, low-quality, shorty ripoff sold on
ebay with a strikingly similar name, and the two are often confused (I think that was the point of the ripoff) to the detriment of the legit manufacturer.
Long tubes are one of the best things you can do to a naturally aspirated engine. Sorry if you're in CA, this isn't gonna work out for you at all, but there are 49 more states full of Tundra owners that can all tell CARB to shove it. In addition, these modern cats aren't nearly as restrictive as the originals. Like someone already pointed out, other components in the stock exhaust are more restrictive. The cats I received from this company have been on and offroad for about 60K miles now, no problems, and the extensions they provide make retrofit very easy (long-tube particulars aside
).
Good luck, if they do this like I know they can, they'll be worth the money.
-Sean
*edit* FWIW, I too think a prototype and a dyno run is the best way...but that's me, you know I'm picky.