Anyone out there ever have any major rusting problems with their Hooker cat-back? I don't live anywhere near the ocean, so salt water is not a factor. Thanks guys.

Also...anyone have Hooker LT's and ORY with a Hooker cat-back? If so, how does it sound? Thanks again.

 

NO rusting problems with mine. Just clean the tips with chrome polish or the like. I also have had the hooker headers, ory and catback on at the same time and it was raspy enough that I had to change out the exhaust to true duals. When I had SLP headers orp and the hooker catback I had no rasp and it sounded really good. I think it was the Y pipe that was causing the rasp cause it decreases in size and by design looks as though it would cause alot of turbulence.

 

A little bit of rust on mine at the tips. Probably nothing a bit of polishing couldn't cure.

 

What made you change to the Hooker LT's and ORY from the SLP Lt's and ORY? Just curious...I've heard some stories about SLP. And was the rasp really that bad with the complete Hooker exhaust? My engine is faily stock, but in the near future I'll be installing a cam.

 

I have the complete hooker system,and with my cam it sounds really good.
I don't know how people are saying it has rasp to it.I have no rasp at all.

 

I had the complete hooker exhaust from headers to tips and I really didn't care for the sound that the hooker cat-back makes. It's really quiet unless your going WOT and then it doesn't sound very good on the outside, just on the inside. It also had a nasty rasp when I let off the gas/pressed in the clutch from WOT (like in between shifts). My tips rusted up pretty bad too reguardless of how often I cleaned them. I installed a Flowmaster American Thunder cat-back with dual cutouts on the headers and it sounds mean as hell now. Two thumbs up for the sound of the flows and two thumbs up for the performance of dual cutouts.

 

LS1 MANIAC,

Did you sell your old Hooker set-up. If you still have it how much will you take for it, if it will fit an old 97 LT1? I'm not into the loud sound so this is perfect for me.

 

I changed them out in the name of power, it was recommended to me and it seems that with the collectors and all the bends and that I had just gotten a bonus from work I said screw it and got the hookers. One thing about the SLP's is that they came out looking the same way that they looked when I put them in 0 rust which is awesome. When I switched out the headers I also switched out the Y pipe and I think it was the y that was causing the rasp because I did not have any before the hooker headers and y pipe and I dont see how the headers could have done it but who knows?

I ended up switching to duals for the sake of getting rid of the rasp and it worked. The duals sound pretty damn good. I get compliments all the time (when my car was running) about the sound of them.


The hooker is a damn good exhaust and If I was going to go back to a y pipe setup I would either get another one of those or a dual dual and I would avoid the hooker y pipe. Just me 2 cents