I think it looks cool. If one day i ever dropped a snowmobile motor in a blaster or something, i would run two pipes and two silencers like that. Or you could run 1 pipe and 2 silencers. I think it will affect performance very much. Basically all the silencer does, as stated before, is muffle it. When i pulled my core out, all it was was a straight piece of tubing with holes in it. It might effect backpressure a little, but not much. I would say a sillencer would effect maybe 5% of your performance. Theoretically, the Y pipe and dual silencers will flow more air, making the engine breath easier, and therefor producing power. But until you run it with just a single silencer, and then with a Y pipe and dual silencers, we wont know what it will effect. Most likely the y pipe will add some back pressure, but it should be able to flow better. But it still looks awesome.