mypontiac

I have a 91' TA with flowmaster exhaust and love the sound.

I want the performance gain of the 3" SLP exhaust, but I was wondering what type of sound it gives.

Is it similar to flowmaster?

Louder?

Quiter?

I will be adding headers later too. What difference in sound will this make?

Thanks.

John Rock

I think that SLP is just plain better. Im gonna be ditching my flowmaster for SLP any day now.

Lounge Lizard 6

There is a little similarity in sound. Had a friend that tell me that a couple of times.

mypontiac

Hi John,

You must be pretty sold on the SLP if you are going to ditch a 3" flowmaster for them!!!

I just have the stock 2 1/4" flowmaster on my 91' TA right now. Got them strictly for sound before I realized that I should have been thinking about performance at the same time.

So let me know how you like them.

Thanks.

Anyone else out there that has this set up???

Mark A Shields

You might pick up 1 HP over the switch, if you already have a cat-back, I wouldn't waste the money.

The headers will help the sound a lot.

mypontiac

So Mark,

You are telling me that my stock 2 1/4" pipe and cat with the flowmaster exhaust is only 1 HP in difference from a 3 " SLP cat back set up????

This is so contrary to what I have been told and have read on other posts.

For instance some members said that the SLP 3" cat back will give better gains from what I have than by even adding headers!!


Please clarify this with me as I would rather not spend the extra big $$$ if I don't need to.


Thanks.

Mark A Shields

Oops, I got confused as to who had what in this post.
Going from the stock 2.25 to 3" exhaust will definately help you.

Though I would say adding headers will give you better performance than the cat-back, unlike some may have said, I see the stock manifolds and y-pipe be far more restrictive than the stock cat-back. Still, go for the whole exhaust and it will wake the car up quite a bit.

mypontiac

Hi Mark,

Yea. That was John Rock who was going to ditch the 3" Flowmaster for the 3" SLP.

Guess it is more a matter of taste for him.

Thanks for clarifying it with me. I was puzzled there with your response to me. I wanted to save the $$$, but I had a feeling you got me confused with my response to John's 3" Flowmaster.

I'll be upgrading probably at the end of the year when I can get some time off from work with the holidays.

Thanks again.