cat back

[Neuspeed007]

http://164.109.57.200/images/LPSCatBackExhaust.jpg
anybody know if the cat-back exhaust system at nopi.com is loud our quiet? any performance gains?

oh ya this is for an 89 accord..

[pmip]

I've heard people say that it rusts out fast, and it doesn't offer much (if any) performance gains. Most people buy it for the piping, then weld on a differant muffler. I haven't heard anything about sound though.

Check out this thread: Click Me! (http://www.3geez.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9694&highlight=pacesetter+exhaust)

[anchovies]

Not that loud. But gets louder later on and then the tip rusts, tip falls off, muffler rusts, chambers inside rusts, falls off, rattles inside muffler....you get what you pay for. Mine started rusting about 3 months after I put it on.

[Neuspeed007]

damn that blows, well im glad i asked. thx you guys

[Whitehonda]

Get it for the mandral bent piping, then weld/clamp on your own muffler. Mine is loud as all hell, but I don't have a cat. Along with intake, header, and no resonator. They pacesetter muffler just sucks.

Cameron

[Jims 86LXI HB]

Originally posted by Neuspeed007
http://164.109.57.200/images/LPSCatBackExhaust.jpg
anybody know if the cat-back exhaust system at nopi.com is loud our quiet? any performance gains?

oh ya this is for an 89 accord..

http://www.3geez.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=30263&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

Definately a subject that would show up using the search feature on the board, same question has been asked repeatedly in the last few month's. Here's what I had to say 11/4/02


It's not worth buying because of it's build quality and because it doesn't make very much power at all. For about the same money you can have a muffler shop create a custom cat-back with a Dynomax Super turbo muffler and you'll make allot more power.

GrassRootsMotor sports magizine did a test where they took a car that was simular in displacement, rev range and tuning and dyno tested several different cat back combinations. One of those was the pacesetter, it made the least power of every system they tested, like 1.6hp. One of of the mufflers they tested was a Dynomax Super turbo that they had a muffler shop create as a cat-back system, didn't even have mandrel bends btw. It was the 3rd most powerfull, 2nd and 1st place didn't make much more power and cost allot more, 1st place had about .6 more hp. It was a thermal research rebuildable muffler.

[1988starter]

I bought it and it sucked but then I welded a dynomax on and it was all good again.