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Old Mar 17, 2005 | 08:19 PM
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Cost me 90 bucks for a 3 inch press bent cat back exhaust, when I provided the muffler. Considering the degree of bends too, they did an excellent job I thought.
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Old Mar 27, 2005 | 10:22 PM
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Be wary of the Buschur Catback with the maganaflow muffler....they only use 2 hangers which causes the muffler to come out crooked....which causes melting. I fixed this by tying the midpipe to the 3rd hanger using galvanized wire........apparently it came loose because my bumper is now melted to the muffler and the muffler is sitting crooked as hell.

They really need to redesign this thing....jesus!
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Old Mar 28, 2005 | 11:01 PM
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I heard you'll lose some power in the low end with the catback(over the axle back)
But Im guessing these people are just working off theory alone and they actually dont know for sure.

Reason I ask is cause I drive an automatic.. so lowend is all I got most of the time. Would the catback be worth it?
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 11:08 AM
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I'd suggest doing other things first, like intake, header, throttle body, intake manifold, and some suspension mods. I'm waiting on the catback to avoid the whole noise problems and the lose in low end torque.
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 11:14 AM
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Our cars don't have much lowend to begin with so putting a cat-back on won't be all that bad but I do agree with ambystom01 that you should get an intake first. This is the order of what I did:

-Intake
-Magnaflow Cat-Back
-Header w/ downpipe

Next I'm going to do is:

-Bored TB
-Intake Manifold
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