Does anyone have any comments about pacesetter cat back systems. i have one on my 84 Z28 and i need to get a new one just because this one is all hacked up and wont fit my car correct.... it has a 3" intermitent pipe and it sounds ok i guess but i wondering if it is worth buying again or if i should go for the hookers because i have heard that they are decent.... the rest of my system involves Edelbrock headers and a dynomax high flow cat.....need suggestions!!!!

 

I actually asked this question before ...Few months ago a guy brag about his pacesetter cat-back....
he was very satisfied with it.

 

I am one of the few with the Monza Pace-Setter Cat-Back.

If you are looking for a VERY quiet performance catback... this is the one for you. There is absoltley zero interior resonance, even with my headers. It is fairly quiet outside of the car as well, but does sound very good. Unfortunatly, I have no basis of comparison as far as performance goes.

 

I have heard nothing but bad about pace setter


granted most of it comes from the rx-7 world but from what I have heard is there are problems with the stuff fitting, rusting, sound quality being real raspy and/or tinny, or just plain falling apart, I have heard of them warping and stuff like that


all in all with what I have heard with there rotary line I would never use one on any other car I ever own.

but if you are looking for a cheap cat-back then this would be the one for you
and again though dont know how they do in the boinger world
but if you find good results with it let me know please

 

I wouldn't recommend it. The muffler inlet is 2-1/2" swaged out to fit the 3" intermediate pipe - silly, and restrictive. Otherwise, the I-pipe and tail pipes are fine.

I put a Flowmaster in place of the Pacesetter muffler that came with the set. Should have just gone with the Flowmaster cat-back.

As for Pacesetter in general, I put a pair of their 2-1/4" turbo mufflers on the '57 when I put a 350 in it 11 years ago. I cut them out of the system last year when I put on the current exhaust. Even with the 396, I would only gain a tenth when uncorking the headers. I gave them to a fellow racer with a '68 Camaro 327 4-speed - he immediately picked up 2 tenths over the Cherry Bomb header glass packs he'd had on forever. After having the engine rebuilt last summer, he's a full second faster than he ever was with the 'Bombs.