I don' know whether to buy Flowmaster catback ora Hooker one....Any Suggestioins...I have a 92 RS, Singlecat.....I want the 80 series muffler if I get the Flow, but it doesn't come w/ the American Thunder Catback. Do I have a 2.5" or 3" cat? how do u know....Also, I want an OE, but the guy said they don't hae Drop Base Open Elemenet, where can i get one? thanks

 

:hail: HOOKER, I LOVE MINE!!!!!!!!

 

search online for some research, i have hooker headers but a flowmaster muffler......just seems to make sense to me

 

jegs has drop base elements thats where i got mine...dont get a drop base tho get a non drop my 80 series flowmaster sounds pretty good and you should have a 2.5'' cat

 

almost all of the aftermarket cat backs flow the same, at least close enough that timakes little/no difference. teh only oen tha tout flows the others by a lot is the borla with the interchangable plates.
so basically if you are shopping fo rjust a cat back or a muffler just find one you think sounds nice and go with it.
if you ever wanna see any performance gain when you upgrade you headers you shoudl really swap the cat for a 3incher and get a 3inch cat back. it will help with the tone a lot, making it much stronger sounding, and be ready for when you wanna make more power.

later
tim

 

i hate to put down jegs, but anytime ive gone in with a question most of the time i get a bunch view based upon there opinion, and thier opinions only, if you really want truthful answers based on fact, rather then a mistake of a backyard mechanic, call summits tech line, those guys know what there talking about



mike

 

Hooker, that's what I've got. You can get a hooker with a 3-inch intermediate pipe, I don't know if flowmaster has 3-inch or not but I know dynomax has 2.5 inch.

The hooker exhaust is pretty loud. Probably not quite as loud as flowmaster though. I've gotten a LOT of compliments on how my car sounds since I put the cat-back on :-). I think the hooker has a better tone and sound than flowmaster.

Oh and you actually have a 2.25 inch cat. Not even 2.5 :-). But Hooker cat-back p/n HOK-16820 (that's a Summit part number, but Jegs ought to be able to find it by the "16820") has a full 3-inch intermediate pipe except the very beginning where it necks down small enough to mate to the stock cat. But if you ever go to a larger cat, you can just cut off the beginning of the I-pipe (where it necks down) and have a full 3-inch exhaust.

If you go with this part number (price was $233.95 when I bought it) the passenger side exhaust hanger is wrong. No idea why but everyone who has bought this exhaust has commented on it, Hooker just doesn't make the right bracket (for passenger side, driver side is perfect). It is pretty easy to fabricate the correct hanger, the one that is on the Hooker is just a flange with 2 bolt holes, I cut off the stock bracket from the stock exhaust, drilled two holes in it, and bolted it to the flange.

 

Im running the Flowmaster Force II system because it was 225$ and I didnt have any money at the time. I gotta say it does sound good. I picked up that and a 3" cat at the same time, gave me .2 sec on the track, but Im sure Ill pick up a lot more when I get my headders / y pipe on (I just orderd MAC headders! ).

My 5.0 friends even say it sounds good