Ponyryd

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I haven't had too much experience with those, but I stand by my original post. Cats of late are very efficient from what I've seen, if you have any examples I'm interested to hear them.

Terminal Velocity

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Modern cats are not restrictive, maybe 2hp per cat at best, most guys pull them for sound. A cat-back will give you maybe 10hp and a much better sound, Magnaflow and Bassani are nice systems.???????




have you ever cut one apart? the magnaflow rep at the Powerama show in edmonton went over cats with me i was shown how restrictive they are even the supposed "high flow" cats . 99-04 comes with 4 so ya cant tell me you make power by obstructing your exhaust flow .I do realise you need a certain amout for backpressure.

Ponyryd

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Yes I have, if you don't believe me then prove me wrong, I'm talking about a stock or mildly modded car and I stand by my 2hp loss per cat, even so if you have 4 cats on your car and change the h-pipe only, I would doubt your power increase would be more than 8hp. I know everyone thinks you lose tons of power with them on, truth is you don't lose that much. I'm not trying to fight with anyone here, but if anyone has any proof of how much power they actually cost a stock or mildly modded car, I'm up for seeing it. A catted race car would lose some power for sure, a mild street car would not lose much is all I'm saying.
Even look at your 1/4 mile times, with your mods your best is low-14, I ran a cat-back equipped otherwise stock '01 to a 13.9@100mph with the headlight and silencer removed.

P.Meister

8hp is a lot and standard for an exhaust upgrade.

Most do it for sound anyway

Terminal Velocity

i never claimed it was going to launch you back in your seat for starters 8hp
is alot when your nickle and diming with bolt ons correct?
and before you Hack on my ET you might wanna take a look at altatude in
edmonton a stock 99-04 GT auto runs 15.5