My 92 has BBK long tubes with BBK x pipe with no cats to 3" Basanni out back and you can hear me from a mile away. Literally. I've had lots of compliments on the sound.
Long tube headers make much more horsepower than shorty headers and sound better as well, honestly imo buying shorty aftermarket headers arent really worth it, they dont add much horsepower at all compared to the stock headers.
Depends on what you want, look on YouTube maybe but keep in mind cammed cars sound different. The same exhaust on 2 different combos will not same exactly the same. And offroad x or h with bullet style mufflers would be one of the loudest.
Longtubes, X pipe with a flowmaster or pypes cat back. I never did like side exhaust. I always thought it made the car sound too unbalanced? Just my 2 cents.