Brianbanscak

What would you guys put your money into on a mild bolt on DD? Tune or cat back? Exhaust is stock. Have a 3000 stall from FTI, lid and ported TB/MAF

LunarWillow

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It depends- has the car been tuned for the converter? If it hasn't, then go with the tune to maximize the benefits of the stall converter. If it has, then go with the cat-back, and get a tune after you add LTs/ORY.

justin hover

Essentially you'd need a tune for your converter..though many drive untuned with no issues. It would be nice to get rid of the stocker exhaust for many reasons. I guess I'd say get your converter tuned..he can also increase line pressure, and some other things. The next time you'd really need a tune is for a set of LTs. But I would try getting a new catback asap...flows better and sounds tons better.

T AM

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Do both.

94 White T/A

I would say catback on an otherwise stock car, but get a tune for the stall

black_phoenix

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$40 Cutout for cheap alternative and frost tune

ramairetransam

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exactly the tune is only 150 , so buy a loudmouth for 300 bucks and be done

JDEP162

both, but if only afford 1 right now, catback, let it breathe first, then get a tune down the road.

ULTIMATEORANGESS

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dyno tune and catback.


id also go with a bigger converter.

mjs1012

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This. I run a 3600 stall with a frost tune and its great. Id wait to get headers before getting a tune.

Blackpanther99

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Get everything before the tune IMO.

jerrito98ss

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straight pipe and tune!!!

BigMac76

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Why do a tune just to later down the road add more bolt ons and then retune it again?

Do all the work beforehand and then have it tuned. The converter and exhaust along with the lid and tb port won't affect drivability as much as you think. I have lt's, a catback, SLP lid and a few other minor mods done to mine and was verified by a local guy that it's pretty good as it is.

So do all your bolt on mods first, then get your tune done.

Blackpanther99

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This.

justin hover

Straight pipes...your kidding right

thunderstruck507

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It's a performance car...not a 1978 3/4 ton farm truck.

sleepinghawk

I would get the exhaust, but I would really search alot of exactly what exhaust before just buying just to be buying. Then I would do the FROST thing after some mods were done. First thing I did was the exhaust sound, mine was a DD also,but I didn't research it enough. Then after the ARH and other stuff, I had it tuned, then I got it tuned by FROST later.

Redfire 03

Lol @ straight pipe comments. By straight pipe I assume he means muffler delete. I actually ran that setup for a while on my old SS and it didn't sound bad actually. Quieter than most would think.

My advice would be to get the mail tune solely for the converter and just add a cutout for now.

RevGTO

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Depending on the model of your car (esp. if it's a Formula or Z28) you can build your own "catback" for cheap. You definitely want to get rid of that horribly restrictive stock muffler. And longtubes are going to make for huge progress.

But the best overall performance investment you can make is a tuning program (EFILive or HPTuners). Frost is great, but you can learn to tune yourself and make adjustments many times over if you own a tuning program.

Tire Fryer

I have a 2000 ws6, magnaflow catback, and SLP lid. What can I expect to gain with a Frost Tune?