Right now im running a gutted stock cat, removed resonators and a straight through muffler...... This setup used to sound good until i gutted my cat, now its got a very nasty sound and not too smooth. My choices are either cutting off my cat and finding a muffler shop to install a straight pipe, or buying a Catco high flow cat from summitracing for $70 ,free shipping. Not sure which to do..........any input?

 

get the Catco cat....you'll lose low-end with the straight pipe and being that you have a VG, the top-end(or lack thereof ) won't compensate for that loss! ask Maximum5spd he lost ~.3 second off his 0-60 using a stright pipe! go with the hi-flow cat!!

 

- Y-Pipe (Warpspeed, Cattman, Stillen, Etc...)
- Straight Pipe
- B-Pipe (your choice)
- And keep the stock muffler (they don't add much HP anyways, but they can add a lot of noise)

If your stock muffler is getting old, get a 2001 Maxima SE muffler.

That's my setup, for what it's worth.

 

Do u think on a VQ the hi-end will compensate for the low end given a straight pipe?

 

Unless you don't care about your exhaust smelling like rotten eggs, I would drop the 70 bucks (not a bad price at all) and get the cat.

 

yeah thats another con....as well as being illegal!

and as for gains on a N/A VQ, I dunno...but I've heard stright pipes on most moderate HP N/A cars don't make big gains period!

 

The cat will help to build some torque, which is what every street car needs. A friend of mine dyno'd his '95 Impala SS, with cats, and without, just to see what happens. Horsepower was the same, but he lost about 12 ft/lbs of torque across the whole range without the cats. When you're moving a 4400 beast like an Impala, you need all the torque you can get!

Stay smog legal and have more power...a cat isn't going to rob horsepower, especially a high-flow ones like Catco or Random Technology. Only old hotrodder's think emissions kills horsepower.

 

str8 pipe. ask sprite about his

 

What one of the Catco high cats are ya get?

I thank you for this Post as I was going to buy a 2nd Stock Cat to Gut... After reading this I might join ya and get the Catco high Flow one...

For the $$$ it's not that Bad.

 

How much do those babies(catco) go for?

 

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I am looking for a better price..!

 

I'm looking into getting a High flow cat for a 97 maxima. Where do i go, who do i call, and how much will i be spending?

 

Date I am looking into getting one so I will look on the web and see what I can come up with. I'll post whatever I find