I'm currently strapped on cash and would like to open up the beastly LS1 What would you recommend for the best overall catback for the the least amount of money? Kind of like pacesetters are the best bang for the buck with headers?
I have a Hooker catback with Mac mids. I dyno'd the car with a Borla catback before I put the Hooker on it. The Borla(blue) with it's $900 had no more power than my Hooker catback(red).
but to OP... you really can't go bad with whatever catback you choose and they will all basically put down the same amount of power like shown in the graph above. one main key difference is the muffler choice as basically a resonator will free up and lot of restriction and then the rest is all in the brand name
__________________ - 2002 Z/28 M6 All Stock My Garage
I forgot to mention that those numbers were through the muffler and the cutout closed on the passanger pipe. But yeah any catback is gonna be an improvement over stock. If you look around long enough you can find a deal on a used catback.