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Old Oct 10, 2025 | 09:40 AM
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So I’m on the fence about what to do I’m for sure getting the Billy boat headers and high flow cats I’m putting an X pipe on so I’m stuck between the or borla stinger Corsa extreme and the Billy boat exhaust I’m getting kind of a mix of all of them and I don’t know what would be the best I’m looking to get someone’s opinion that has a similar set up
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It's very subjective

I personally like the Corsa systems for the balance of tone/volume and lack of interior drone.

We're dealers for Billy Boat, Corsa, Borla etc and would be happy to put together a package deal.

Have some Corsa/Borla systems in stock too


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I have LG headers, high flow cats, xpipe and b&b bullet exhaust. Nice deep rumble, all the axle back options you chose are loud and will drone, just FYI. Corsa extremes are probably higher pitched vs the deep rumble of the bullets, I won’t suggest Borla, I’m just not a fan of how it sounds.

Match the xpipe and cats with the header system. Get cats, it will help keep the louder axle backs noise down a little. LG, American racing, and kooks are the top 3 in quality, IMO, find a tuner that knows how to tune these things before you start burning a hole in your wallet. My bullet system is 20 years old and has over 80,000 miles on it if you’re interested in how long these last.
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Originally Posted by FORZAMOTORWORKS
It's very subjective

I personally like the Corsa systems for the balance of tone/volume and lack of interior drone.

We're dealers for Billy Boat, Corsa, Borla etc and would be happy to put together a package deal.

Have some Corsa/Borla systems in stock too


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yeah so I guess like what would you say is the difference in the tones from one to the other
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I have LG headers, high flow cats, xpipe and b&b bullet exhaust. Nice deep rumble, all the axle back options you chose are loud and will drone, just FYI. Corsa extremes are probably higher pitched vs the deep rumble of the bullets, I won’t suggest Borla, I’m just not a fan of how it sounds.

Match the xpipe and cats with the header system. Get cats, it will help keep the louder axle backs noise down a little. LG, American racing, and kooks are the top 3 in quality, IMO, find a tuner that knows how to tune these things before you start burning a hole in your wallet. My bullet system is 20 years old and has over 80,000 miles on it if you’re interested in how long these last.
yeah so I’m trying to find someone to tune I’m also in Canada too as well and it’s kinda hard to find somebody is there anywhere I can do like a remote tune where I can just tell them what my set up is and they can kind of build a file or make a file for it
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