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Old Nov 6, 2002 | 09:38 AM
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Hooker cat-back

How loud would you say the hooker cat back it on a 1-10 scale. 3 being stocke and 10 a cutout.
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Old Nov 6, 2002 | 09:42 AM
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With stock manifolds & cats? I'd say a 4 at idle and a 6 or so at WOT. Definitely not one of the loudest catbacks out there, but still very good overall.
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Old Nov 6, 2002 | 09:52 AM
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Cool that is what i want and everything is stock now.
Thanks for the quick reply
Old Nov 7, 2002 | 09:39 AM
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It is a bolt on corect? No welding?
Old Nov 7, 2002 | 12:12 PM
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The Hooker is a pretty much bolt in swap. You will need to either remove the stock band clamp or buy a new one for between the y-pipe and i-pipe (it's held on by a spot weld and a b!tch to get off). You will also need to remove part of the hanger on the rear of the i-pipe near the muffler which will take some work. Not too hard though, my friend and I installed it in his garage in a couple hours (taking our time). It does sound nice over the stock exhaust and mean at WOT.

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Old Nov 9, 2002 | 01:32 PM
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how did you get past the weld
Old Nov 10, 2002 | 11:40 AM
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To get past the spot weld on the band clamp, I simply bent the clamp up and kind of used a hacksaw to saw through the spot (it is smaller then a dime). I probably could have used a dremel, and that would have worked even better (didn't have one at the time). As for the part of the hanger, that took some banging and my friend ground it down a little on a sander.

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