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Old May 26, 2008 | 12:27 AM
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Thumbs up The Hooker Aero Chamber Muffler

If your running stock exhaust system with cats , this is the one . After trying many different set-ups this is the one that absolutely sounds the best . From idle to crusing, it gives that deep V8 growl and when crusing , it has that great highway rumble . Kinda like a Ford ! Damn , did I really say that ?
At last I'm satisfied with the sound of my 02 Z . And now I won't have to go to all the trouble & expense of headers and or TD's . Plus my car won't have that disgustingly awful unburned fuel smell .
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Old May 26, 2008 | 03:28 AM
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I have the Hooker catback with LTs and ORY it sounds so good! the unburned fuel smell good to me.lol
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Old May 26, 2008 | 08:26 AM
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I have the Hooker Aero Chamber, and love the way it sounds .I puts Flow master to sham in my opinion.
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Old May 26, 2008 | 08:38 AM
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i had one and pulled it and sold it. it was awful and broken up between 2k and 3k. everyone gave me compliments though. mine was with LTs and ORY. it sounded badass at WOT though.
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Old May 26, 2008 | 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by 01ssreda4
i had one and pulled it and sold it. it was awful and broken up between 2k and 3k. everyone gave me compliments though. mine was with LTs and ORY. it sounded badass at WOT though.
well i got the aero chamber muffler and when i had stock piping and cats i couldnt even hear the exhaust at all. maybe a little louder then stock. i like a little rumble. but i got my LT's and Y pipe and it is a little broken up and raspy. but i get nothing but compliments from people. WOT is pretty badass also
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Old May 26, 2008 | 10:55 AM
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Im going to make some WOT vids today so stay tuned!! Im going to record my buddies car its a 2001 WS6 his mods are LS6 Engine with full boltons except underdrive pulley. He has pacestter longtubes and a custom y pipe and a hooker aerochamber muffler
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Old May 26, 2008 | 11:06 AM
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I love mine...should get louder with the LTs hopefully coming soon
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Old May 26, 2008 | 12:08 PM
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The cam and compression, and headers .Is what make the tone from a muffler ,The more compression you have the louder the sound and the cam will determine the lope, and the headers will determined the tone. I know there's other things that can determined the sound, like timing among others,But to me the top three is the main. With my LS2 418 ,it shakes the ground at idle and is loud as hell at wot with the Hooker Aero Chamber with a 3" (Y) pipe.
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I love the sound of a Hooker Aerochamber also, so much so I built 2 cat-bak style setups, one for my LS1 car and one for my LT1 car. The LT1 car still wears hers, my LS1 car had to shed hers because it was a sort of bottleneck back there. I pulled it while running a street class that I couldnt have cared less about (12 Oh class no faster) I normally run 10.40s and it (the Aero chamber) was slowing me to 10.80s and I lost about 5 MPH. Anyways I stood it on the bumper while running a Moustang and he gave up before the 1/8th. He won because I ran a 10.42 on my 12 flat dial. The crowd went crazy though.

I sure do love the sound of it on the LT1 car though.
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Old May 26, 2008 | 01:10 PM
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I have one sitting around and I'll probably put it on my M6 car. I think it sounds good with the exception that it is very quiet. I thought it would help with rasp when I put LT's on my A4 car. It was a lot quieter than the GMMG but still raspy.
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Old May 26, 2008 | 01:23 PM
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I have a hooker aerochamber, hooker mids, and hooker o/r y... I love the way it sounds!

rev vid: http://youtube.com/watch?v=DaDNovGZQg0

take-off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkuaRGW0Hkk

and... fly-by: http://youtube.com/watch?v=V2YKZ86XL78
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Old May 26, 2008 | 01:38 PM
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^ Sounds good!
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Old May 26, 2008 | 01:53 PM
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Magnaflow is a straight thru design which is very effective...just my 2cents
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Old May 26, 2008 | 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Torkman15
I love the sound of a Hooker Aerochamber also, so much so I built 2 cat-bak style setups, one for my LS1 car and one for my LT1 car. The LT1 car still wears hers, my LS1 car had to shed hers because it was a sort of bottleneck back there. I pulled it while running a street class that I couldnt have cared less about (12 Oh class no faster) I normally run 10.40s and it (the Aero chamber) was slowing me to 10.80s and I lost about 5 MPH. Anyways I stood it on the bumper while running a Moustang and he gave up before the 1/8th. He won because I ran a 10.42 on my 12 flat dial. The crowd went crazy though.

I sure do love the sound of it on the LT1 car though.
damn then it wont work really all that well for a turbo set up then huh
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Old May 26, 2008 | 01:57 PM
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I love mine, and I get alot of compliments too..
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Old May 26, 2008 | 03:13 PM
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i am running the jethot LT's and ORY and a Hooker catbeck and get tons of compliments and its sounds awesome
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Old May 26, 2008 | 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by omcar
Magnaflow is a straight thru design which is very effective...just my 2cents
ehhh, not the one that comes on their catback, its pretyy much like the hooker but smaller and stainless

magnaflow is lighter, the hooker muffler is heavy as a ****
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