Anyone try the PHAB catback
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Anyone try the PHAB catback Hey guys was wondering, has anyone tried the PHAB catback and liked it. I was wondering because you get the 4 inch quad tips with it. But from what I've researched and read it may sound raspy or like sh** lol.
I have hooker longtubes, catless y pipe and currently have a magnaflow catback. Love how it sounds, just want the quad tips. Also where my pipe comes over the axle it kinda for some reason merges into the passenger tail pipe. The way it does would in my mind not help flow, will try to get a pic, and the catback came with the car btw. Thanks again.
I have hooker longtubes, catless y pipe and currently have a magnaflow catback. Love how it sounds, just want the quad tips. Also where my pipe comes over the axle it kinda for some reason merges into the passenger tail pipe. The way it does would in my mind not help flow, will try to get a pic, and the catback came with the car btw. Thanks again.
All I can tell you a lot of the rasp you hear comes from the merge design in the y-pipe. With that said if PHAB uses a actual bullet muffler and not just a resonator it should sound pretty good as long as the y-pipe has a proper merge. I run a Flomaster merge with a Magnaflow 14419 bullet muffler and it's still very loud being just a small bullet muffler, but there is no rasp. That PHAB muffler looks very similar to the LM1 and LM2
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Of course that was like 4 years ago but thats how it merges. Also I'll have to get a pic car is in storage now at father in laws. My catback that I have is a magna flow sounds good, but where the pipe comes over the axle it it merges like right into the passenger tail pipe before it makes its turn to exit the vehicle, never thought of it till I come across the catcack from phab. Doesn't makes sense for flow. c I want the quad tips. And a meaner sound never hurts lol.
Just by looking at it that's not a very good merge. I can almost guarantee you'll have a lot of rasp with that small bullet muffler. The merge in my Pacesetter ORY looked very similar to that, and with the LM1 it had tons of rasp. Sounded like crap lol
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Thanks for the input, may just try those tips for now I guess. definitely don't want it to sound like crap. I'll just have to keep finding vids on YouTube of similar setups till I buy a new catback.
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Verdad Gallardo I had a shop cut out my stock Pacesetter merge and then weld in the FM merge. Labor was like $50 if i remember right, so for $90 I got a really good merge installed. Also important to note is that I gained notibable power as well. Apparently at my power the horrible merge design of the Pacesetter unit was restricting flow a lot
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Just as i went to respond lol, i see I'll have to modify my ypipe, heck I may just try that and the tips for now lol. Bet i notice a difference in sound to boot. Wish i would've researched when I bought the ypipe lol, o well. Looking at the ypipe why didnt i question that before i bought it jeez smh. Thanks for your help man. Will report back when I do it.
Glad to help man. Yeah the merge on these pipes is extremely important to both sound and power. It kills a lot of that rasp since the transitioning of the exhaust is much smoother, and by that same principal power is obviously enhanced too. If you do a search on here you'll see lots of info on this. Looking forward to your results
The merge is no doubt better than what you have, but to get the most out of it you need the correct size. 3" in to 4" out is best. Not sure what the specs on that one are, but Flomaster has all the different sizes. Then there's the matter of weather it will perfectly fit your headers or not. With your current ORY you know it fits so that's a non issue. What does this one cost?
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149.95 plus shipping hawks motorsports. Lists that it fits the hooker headers, however just came across this searching the web. I trust your judgement just seen that and was like sweet. But yeah definitely probably better to modify mine with that flowmeter merge then.
Agreed. That merge is much better than the curent hooker y you have. Looks somewhat close to my ARH Y-pipe merge. Not a bad price too. That hooker merge is the same as Kooks use to use. That always suprised me considering the level of kooks product, price, and exhaust experience. Ultimately thats why I went with ARH.