It just arrived this afternoon in the back of a FedEx truck. Borla's stainless steel adjustable cat-back for my '86-'92 Fbody's.
I have this very same exhaust on my 4th gen LT1. Bought it many, many years ago when it first hit the market and I've always had the opinion that Borla was the highest quality, best sounding exhaust available for the 4th gen LT1 cars.

I bought a second car last year (an '88 L98 Iroc-Z) to get around in while I finish building up the 396 stroker for my '93 Formula Firebird. I decided that when I upgraded the exhaust, I wanted something that wasn't as "attention getting" as the Borla was on the Lt1. I had already received more "excessive noise" tickets than I could keep track of and I didn't want to go through all the hastle over again with the new Camaro.
I ended up going with a Dynomax cat-back. It's a great exhaust, flows really well, looks factory-stock while producing a deep, low sounding rumble at idle and has a nice smooth tone cruising around town. Best part is, it doesn't attract the attention of the cops and that's the main reason why I got it.

Problem is though, as much as I like the smooth, refined sound of my Dynomax, I couldn't stop thinking about the sound my 4th gen made running an open Borla. It's just so different compared to every other exhaust available for these cars. It's got a sound all it's own. Totally different then anything else out there and on top of that, whenever you buy a Borla, you're buying "exclusivity".

I know that may sound kind of shallow, but it's a pretty cool feeling knowing you have something on your car that stands out and really gets people's attention. I see Flowmasters and Magnaflows and Aerochambers everywhere. Around here, 99% of all Fbodies run one of those 3 brands. You've heard one, you've heard them all. I love Borla 'cause it sounds DIFFERENT!!


Last Saturday, I watched some video me and some friends filmed of my LT1 driving around and doing burnouts etc. etc. Hearing the sound that exhaust made was driving me nuts. It was the final straw - sort of speak, I made the decision right there and then, I was going to buy a second Borla for my second Fbody If I end up getting more tickets for excessive noise, so be it.

Placed an order last weekend, and part no. 14888 arrived at my house Thursday afternoon.

In case any of you are wondering about this exhaust, here are a few key features...

It's a full 3" stainless steel manderal-bent cat-back. Comes with Borla's inter-changable plates (to adjust the volume/tone of the exhaust) Borla's XR-1 stainless steel muffler with 3" inlet/outlet, duel angle-cut stainless tips , stainless clamps, stainless hangers (starting to see a pattern here? ) and all other necessary hardware to install the system (yes, even they're stainless steel too)

The only gripe I have (and it's a minor gripe mind you) is the exhaust tips. The tips are nice, but I prefer the "intercooled" duel/square tips that come with the 4th gen kit. But like I said, it's a small gripe I have and obviously it's just my opinion. Others might love them, to each there own. I think these would look much better on a Formula/GTA then they do on a Z28/Iroc.

On 3rd gens, especially the Camaro's, I don't like the look of any exhaust pipes coming out the back, so in all likely hood, I wont even install these tips and just buy a set of turn downs. I just like the clean look of not having exhaust tips on Iroc's, maybe it's just me....

Regardless, I'll put them on just to see what they look like. Maybe I'll change my mind when they're on the car.

Anyways, now my entire exhaust will be made of stainless steel from the headers all the way back, so I won't have to worry about snow and salt rusting anything out.

Stay tuned for installation photo's and sound clips once it's been installed.
I have yet to see a single 3rd gen in person that has this exhaust, so I'll definitely have something different in the sense that I'm not running the same Flowmaster/Hooker Aerochamber exhaust everybody else runs.

I can't wait to hear what this sounds like on my L98.....

Here are some pic's I just took. Any questions you have, feel free to ask...



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Here's a few more....

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Good luck with it the next time around. Don't forget to post some sound clips when its done.

 

Oh I will. Just got to figure out how to install the damn thing

The 3rd gen version is made up of like 9 sepperate pieces. When I bought the 4th gen version for my '93, I'm pretty sure it was only 6-7 pieces. I was under the impression that both 3rd and 4th gen exhausts were very similar to each other and only required slight modifications to the brackets that hold them in place, in order to be interchangeable with each other. Apparently not.

There's obviously a bigger difference than that between the two styles, but I'll only be able to see things better once I'm under the car and putting everything in its place.

Stay tuned for pics/video's/sound clips