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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 10:21 PM
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What do you guys think is the best performance cat back exhaust system besides borla?? for my 94 formula.

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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 10:30 PM
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some very light reading.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/lt1-lt4-modifications/339785-best-sounding-catback.html

Im pretty sure you could write a thesis on the topic
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 10:45 PM
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They all have similar performance except flowmaster which sucks somewhat compared to the others, and the mufflex 4" or something like that is somewhat better.

For the most part pick the one you want based on sound and cost, those are far more distinctive features than the relatively minor performance differences, assuming your just starting off with a catback. If you're designing a large series of major mods then you might look at it a little differently.
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 10:57 PM
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well in the future i am going to end up getting headers y pipe and a high flow cat..the only after market part i have right now is a k & n cai
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Old Oct 2, 2006 | 11:14 PM
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yeah with just that it doesn't really matter too much. just don't get flowmaster.

By major mods I meant heads/cam/stroker/turbo, etc.
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 01:44 AM
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i have a flow master, but then again i have it setup so i can flip a switch and bypass that, the cat is flanged so that can come out and i can run straight headers too lol
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 02:47 AM
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yeah with a cutout it doesn't really matter, that's going to flow better than any catback
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Old Oct 3, 2006 | 06:15 AM
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get anything that u like the way it sounds, and an elec. cut out for preformance, it out flows anything.
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magnaflow advertises a 15hp gain I believe. I have it and love the sound
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Originally Posted by infinitebird
yeah with a cutout it doesn't really matter, that's going to flow better than any catback
Good Call

A cutout is a cheap way to quickly dump the exhaust for a quick increase in HP by virtually eliminating all backpressure.

I had one on my truck, and after awhile it gets annoying. Don't get me wrong I love them, but I wanted a nice sounding exhaust.
Anyone who gets a cutout first will eventually get a nice exhaust to go with it, because running no back pressure all the time is not good for the rings, and who wants to run the cutout all the time.
( I know some of you crazy bastards do )

I love my Loudmouth. Sounds great all the time.
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Originally Posted by maybe2fast
magnaflow advertises a 15hp gain I believe. I have it and love the sound
It's not that large of a gain though, maybe 5-10 max.
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