robertbartsch

LT headers
Y-pipe w/cats
Hooker cat-back

This car is too noisy; how is the cheapest/best way to make it like stock in sound?

Ace$nyper

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Hooker is one of the more quiet mufflers, you may just want to look into an OEM muffler.

Probbly cheaper and easier, then finding out the hard way if a dual dual is quieter, personally I think it would be about the same.

Probbly a stock muffler is about the best you can do.

ddcook07

iTrader: (5)

Magnaflow is not too loud either.

robertbartsch

Are the intake and out flow diameter pipes in the Hooker the same as the GM stock muff?

Rob98LS1

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SLP dual/dual has been proven time and time again to be a great quiet yet free flowing catback for modified cars. You don't want a stock muffler on a car with mods as extensive as yours, that would be killing performance.

sroach20

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from the title i thought you meant something else, like a mute.

transamfreak01

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put the stock muffler back on and get a cut out. there you go case solved

robertbartsch

Actually, the Hooker cat back was the very last mod I put on the car. I can't prove it with a dyno run, but I did not feel any power increase from adding the noisy-as-hell muffler. I suspect some of the standard mods people do are limited in HP gains.

Anyway, what are my options:

1. Add a stock GM muffler into the Hooker cat-back (will this work or are the pipes diff. diameters?)

2. Add two straight-flow rice-burner mufflers on the "tip ends" of the existing Hooker cat back?

3. Anything else? A big straight-flow muff on the y-pipe?

AronZ28

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My magnaflow is pretty quiet unless you get on the loud pedal.

Shinigami2x4

Mine to..

magius231

iTrader: (8)

4. read some of the suggestions already provided?

Deerhunter-Z28

hooker

ShevrolayZ28

iTrader: (4)

I know how it is. I used to date this girl, she was a real screamer. The neighbors did not appreciate it.

Now on your exhaust maybe you can try some of those little cone inserts, and get a cutout installed for those times when you wanna make noise.

JohnnyC

This may be the first time that I have heard someone complain that the Hooker is too loud, especially with cats. I guess the SLP Dual / Dual or the stock muffler is about all you can do, unless you wanna add more mufflers upstream of the Hooker.

sroach20

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it just keeps getting better .

RE AND CHERYL

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I can't beleive someone would add LT headers and any cat back and not expect it to be loud.

My Borla was fairly quiet even with headers.

KurtRardin

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Are you serious? When I had my stock cam I thought that going from my Catted Y and LoudMouth to a ORY and Hooker sounded stock. I've got LTs, ORY, and hooker Catback... seriously I couldnt hear the car Idle if I walked away from it while it had the stock cam. It cant imagine ANY sound coming out of it at Idle with cats. WOW! Still too loud? Maybe take have a muffler like an XR1 or Magnaflow bullet welded in the I-pipe...sorta like a LoudMouth.

Do you really want your car to sound like a vaccum cleaner?

Fifedogg

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Ive never heard of someone saying the Hooker is too loud for them. I have a Magnaflow Cat-Back with LT and Catted Y and its very quiet (almost too quiet) untill you get on it. I wouldn't go with the stock muffler if I was you IMO. With all the performance you have on your car why are you worried about noise?

robertbartsch

Noise is an issue in my queit neighborhood. It was OK until a few new people moved in around my huose and now everyone is being a pain about it.

The car is very loud when you start it and stays loud until it warms.

Detoxx03

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Sell the car to me and buy yourself a honda