RelentleZ

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I am looking to go with a catback for my 99 M6 Z28. I was thinking about a Hooker system. What do you guys think? Im looking for cheap. Also, im considering a ORY.

weaponZ

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hooker catback's are nice.flow good and sound good.easy on the wallet too.sounds like a mix between borla and flowmaster.i had one on my old lt1 car after hearing it on a friends ls1 car.

Lithium

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ORY and Hooker are a good combo.

RelentleZ

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anyone know where i can get fair prices on the two?

Lithium

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You looking for used?

Or the best deal new?

RelentleZ

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either really. ill buy used if its in decent shape.

kpowr82

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I've got a Hooker Cat-Back that's got one season of drivin on it (~3000 miles). No rust at all. The only problem is, I had to modify the tailpipes for my CME. The tips are also in GREAT condition.

v8hunter

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I recently put on some pacesetter long tubes with ory and hooker cat back on my 99. I got the hooker cat bak for $275 from tsp. I ditched my flowmaster cat back and got the hooker since it (supposedly) flows much better. I would say that the flowmaster sounded better than the hooker, but was noisier at idle & light throttle. I also didn't like the hooker tips...I thought that they looked kinda cheesy so I got some other oval ones welded on for more of a sleeper look.

I used the tsp ory...it took nearly as long to get the y pipe fitted up nicely as installing the headers themselves.

There is my .02

bastien

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It's very quiet with stock manifolds. It's a little louder with LT's and ORY. It's quiet with LT's and Catted-Y. I run my cutout open 99% of the time.

White.Lightning

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Get some LT's when you buy the Hooker catback. I run a FLP LT/ORY setup to a Hooker catback. It sounds AMAZING. I had the Borla (open) open on there but it was WAY too raspy for me. As stated above, it will be quiet with stock manifolds. Save for some LT's as well and do it all at once. Your ls1 will come to life. Full exhaust is a great investment.

Andy

RelentleZ

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im not ready to move to LT's just yet. would just the catback and ORY be a good investment?

sidewayz28

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y pipe will need to be different size once you get lts right?

lgobraves

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no reason to get a new y-pipe. You'll need a new one when you do headers. Maybe gut your cats if you want to wake it up

skewba98z28

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Just put a Hooker on my car with LT's and a ORY and I love it. Very deep and quiet inside. Normal driving it's real tame then at WOT it opens up. On stock manifolds and cats. It's very quiet.

you2slo

If you can't do the entire exhaust at once, just put the Hooker on. You will not be dissappointed! You'll gain flow and a great sound.

slow trap

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one more prop here for the hooker cat-back also.

Juiced2000SS

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Had a Hooker Cat-Back on my thirdgen with Hooker LT's and for normal driving it was great, light on the gas and I could hardly tell it was there. WOT sounded awesome too. I went with a Borla this time for the stainless and I like the tips alot on a 4thgen.

KilerTA

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I bought my hooker cat back from texas for $313 shiped goot it with in 5 days im very pleased im getting read to buy a set of qtp headers and catted y but im torn between gettigna ory.

fasteddyss

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My hooker sounded great with stock manifolds and cats. After a cam, headers and high flow cats it was way too loud for me. I ended up with a dual/dual.

Also, it seemed louder as it aged.

Good luck

2000Z28M6

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When I had my car stock first things that went in was the Hooker Catback, the sound was good but not really louder than stock at idle or cruising rpms as soon as you hit WOT you knew it was a lil louder. Since then I upgraded in steps, first gutted the cats and installed a free flowing Y-pipe, that made it very pleasant and still sounded good at idle, but it sounded like I had shorties. Now that I have hooker LTs and the Hooker Y and Catback it sounds like a real muscle car. At idle you can tell LTs are installed, its not bad even at cruising rpms, but when I hit WOT it sounds very very loud , by the way my cam makes idle a lil louder because of the lope. Hope that helps.