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mate just paint your car red and that it as long as ou car is red its fast everyone knows the RED IS FAST lol dont listen to these guys      

Can't argue with that comment! :auto:

A good cat can cost upwards of $500 plus another couple of hundred $$ or so for fitting so just changing the cat alone may not be a "bang for buck" modification if a complete (used) system is available for only a few hundred more (don't forget to factor in fitting if your not a DIY person). The full system should give better performance than just a cat change but only once other mods such as injectors and tune are done.

WTF??? Where are you pricing your cats from?? The persian kitty store!

I can get a metalcat for under $300, hell BCL runs an x-force cat, I can get a brand new one of them for $220. No more than 100 to fit them either. And there is such a thing as too big an exhaust.

Yeh I may of overestimated the price, I actually paid $290 for a Magic cat myself but I'm sure the fitting was at least $200. Bugster paid $180 according to one thread I read. You can buy cats for $500 or more, I was quoted $400 for a 3.5" X-Force, there is also a thread on the forum about 5" Balistic cats for $450 and I think your good friend Jeff mentioned recently about a cat available from C&V for over $500 that is supposedly the best flowing one around. Anyway, it was just a ballpark estimation, better to be up than down in price I reckon, that way he will have a pleasant surprise when he goes to get one fitted.

I think your good friend Jeff mentioned recently about a cat available from C&V for over $500 that is supposedly the best flowing one around.

that's correct Ross its $500 fitted.

CV PERFORMANCE

Ross is correct, I paid $300 for my 3.5" MetalCat and $180 to have it fitted. Also did the centre muffler replacement mod (with hot dogs, not straight through pipes) purely for sound. With the rest of the zorst stock CV still managed a comfortable 308rwkw.

$500 for the CV cat (fitted) sounds like great value to me - had I known about it before I did my zorst mods I would almost certainly have gone with that. Reason I didn't go for a full system was mainly to keep the wife happy and to retain a 'stock' appearance.

EDIT: Laner, I think you'll find that a single 3" system actually flows less than the stock twin 2.25", sorry to break that news to you. You'll need to go to a 3.5" system to start seeing any real gains I think.

Edited 26/03/07 03:12 AM26/03/07 03:12 AM by bugster70

I paid $280 for the metal cat and $100 for fitting

I'm very impressed with the stock exhaust, with stock cat there are some big numbers being put through them, even higher rwkw number's with a cat (simon from xtreme knows how good they are). I am personally of the opinion that unless you're changing the engines bottom end, you don't need one (as is nizpro with their cobra kits). Having said all that, a better exhaust will let you produce the same power with lower boost which will help the valve springs etc. do it easier.