flex section for the wastegate!? talk about overdoing it.
How does a 2.5 run right out of the passengers side fender sound? Smoke the ricer in more ways than one.
Thats the plan for me. SS tubings and bends are easily bought from truck supply houses.
Well, I'm trying to avoid too much sound

Silent death is more fun for me!
About the second flex pipe, hey, that's absolutely necessery! Every time you see a twin-downpipe design, the W/G downpipe always needs to have a flex pipe of some sort before it's connected back onto the primary downpipe.
You need it because when the primary downpipe sees somewhat constant temperatures during driving, the secondary downpipe becomes hot very rapidly every time the waste gate opens, and after that quickly cools down again. You can see what would happen were it not for the second flex pipe!
