Shocks and Intake/Exhaust

[Peter]

Hi Everyone,

It's been a while since I've been here. Hope all is well. Everything is good here. I’m bringing my truck to the Hummer dealership in Cerritos tomorrow for service and I was thinking about having them install some new shocks and intake/exhaust.

I was looking at the Edelbrock Xtreme Travel shocks with remote reservoir and Ricor IAS (Inertia Active System). If any of you have these shocks or have driven a truck equip with them please let me know how these shocks work on and/or off road. This Ricor IAS function is supposed to give excellent ride on pavement and off-road… I wonder. If this claim is true it sounds great. I want "same as stock" or better off road handling but what made me think of doing this is because I want better on road handling. The h2 is such a flying brick on the highway if you have to pull a move to avoid a stupid driver with stock shocks it's a real handfull. It will be nice if those IAS shocks really work as well as they claim.

I’m not sure about the intake/exhaust, I was thinking intake, headers, and fat pipe to the rear. I would rather that my h2 be quiet but I want some more zip, also a little better gas milage would be nice too. I would like the tail pipe to be hidden up under the truck like the stock exhaust. The Airaid Air Intake seems to be good but I really have no idea. It seems a lot of people sell the short headers but there don't seem to be many long headers out there. Anyone here know what the difference is?

All comments are very welcome.

Thanks,
Peter

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