NEW OWNER - Intake & Cat Back Help
Race Director
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 19,304
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From: San Diego CA
Best CAI intake (money-no-object): Callaway Honker $500 (relocates MAF to same location as with the C6 MAF)
Best bang for the buck intake: Halltech Stinger $300
Best cat-back: Well, forget HP increase, go for the sound. I'd say the best selling cat-back is the Borla Stingers. That's also what I have and its sound is tough to beat.
Sound clips of some popular systems: http://www.thx2.net/exhaust.htm
Best bang for the buck intake: Halltech Stinger $300
Best cat-back: Well, forget HP increase, go for the sound. I'd say the best selling cat-back is the Borla Stingers. That's also what I have and its sound is tough to beat.
Sound clips of some popular systems: http://www.thx2.net/exhaust.htm
Burning Brakes
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 993
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From: PA
OK, here we go, (Flame Suits on?... Good)
Vararam B2 intake, gets the air from outside the car (From the fog lamp cutouts), easy intall.
Cat-Back? I like my Corsa Indy Pace, but a cat-back is for sound NOT Hp. Listen to a few in person and decide for yourself. Pretty much all C5 cat-backs are built the same, just different sound.
Enjoy!
Vararam B2 intake, gets the air from outside the car (From the fog lamp cutouts), easy intall.
Cat-Back? I like my Corsa Indy Pace, but a cat-back is for sound NOT Hp. Listen to a few in person and decide for yourself. Pretty much all C5 cat-backs are built the same, just different sound.
Enjoy!
Team Owner
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 24,652
Likes: 298
From: NJ
St. Jude Donor '05-'08
Originally Posted by KTMAPPRAISER
I'm a new C-5 owner with low miles and am need of advice. What type of air cleaner & cat back systems work the best?
for the Cat-Back I would go to a few car gatherings and listen to as many cat-backs that you can. From there you should be able to make a decision.
For the Air intake - well I think that comes down to how much money you want to spend and if you want to do the work yourself. for me more money might have meant a few more HPs so I didn't think it was worth it. I also wanted to do the install myself and some of the intakes are really hard to work with.
I used both the Halltech Stinger and the Blackwing. Both are easy to install and both give about the same results. The only reason I changed to the blackwing was because I could do a cool air modification and I felt that cool air was better than the hot ari around the engine.
Team Owner
Joined: Mar 1999
Posts: 22,025
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From: At the beach in little Rhody
Originally Posted by Dave68
Best CAI intake (money-no-object): Callaway Honker $500 (relocates MAF to same location as with the C6 MAF)
Best bang for the buck intake: Halltech Stinger $300
Best cat-back: Well, forget HP increase, go for the sound. I'd say the best selling cat-back is the Borla Stingers. That's also what I have and its sound is tough to beat.
Sound clips of some popular systems: http://www.thx2.net/exhaust.htm
Best bang for the buck intake: Halltech Stinger $300
Best cat-back: Well, forget HP increase, go for the sound. I'd say the best selling cat-back is the Borla Stingers. That's also what I have and its sound is tough to beat.
Sound clips of some popular systems: http://www.thx2.net/exhaust.htm
Burning Brakes
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,202
Likes: 2
From: Bergen County NJ
Originally Posted by vettenuts
I agree with this. I had the Donaldson, the Vararam and the Honker. The Honker wins hands down. For the cat back, the Z06 titanium is a nice light system with a little more sound, the Borla's sound very deep like the 60's.
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