exhaust woes...need some advise

[knightowl73]

ok heres the deal. i recently upgraded carbs on my 350 and now my truck seems to run fine, but im worried about the exhuast. my truck currently is running a set of hooker headers with 2.5" collectors, thru 2.25"pipe to turbo mufflers, then it has aset of 2" tailpipes after the mufflers. the headers rattle pretty bad at idle but dont leak and ive been thinking of replacing them back to the stock manifolds and just running 2.5" pipe with new mufflers. or i could wrap the headers and run 2.5" pipes. im sure the current set-up thats on there is hurting me badly, but which should i do, im kinda uncertain if wrapping the headers is going to stop the noise, but the manifolds prolly suck performance-wise, you think id regret them? that wrap is pretty expensive, and will it even work for the headers? i dont think the 2.5 pipes are overkill but im sure the 3" would, just a mild motor, i do like playing with the truck now too, its really a toy now, even th it doesnt look it.