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Old Oct 25, 2007 | 09:54 PM
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A friend of mine had a set of unused 3" high flow round brick style converters that are about 11" overall and about 4.5 of catalyst. They were given to me at a deal, 30.00. I was planning on using these on a ls6 cammed 5.3 in my s10. Are these worthwhile converters that I can get a long service life from or should I just go ahead and buy a set of the spun metallic magnaflows??

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I've never heard of them before.. Maybe see if they have a website or something to find out more about them?
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I traced them back to e-gay. spun mets it is.
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Good thing it was 30.00 worth of spare parts laying in the garage and not cash.
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Old Feb 27, 2008 | 12:18 PM
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I just bought a pair I'm gonna try on my Z06, i'll report back
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Old Feb 27, 2008 | 12:25 PM
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I've been using them for a year now. Still good.
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How bad could they be?

Check the trader ratings. If the product was pure crap, they should have horrible feedback. For $30, they're probably worth a shot. Sure, they probably won't last as long or flow as well as a Magnaflow bullet cat, but for $30...may as well try it.

Magnaflow bullet cats cost over $100 a piece. It's like $250 shipped for 2 cats. You paid $30, so what can you honestly expect?
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Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369
How bad could they be?

Check the trader ratings. If the product was pure crap, they should have horrible feedback. For $30, they're probably worth a shot. Sure, they probably won't last as long or flow as well as a Magnaflow bullet cat, but for $30...may as well try it.

Magnaflow bullet cats cost over $100 a piece. It's like $250 shipped for 2 cats. You paid $30, so what can you honestly expect?
I paid $160 shipped for my magnaflow metallic cats.
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Originally Posted by speed_demon24
I paid $160 shipped for my magnaflow metallic cats.
where from ???
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Originally Posted by speed_demon24
I paid $160 shipped for my magnaflow metallic cats.
So did I, but they recently had a price increase.
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You can get the Thunderbolts in metallic for I think $60 each
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