Cat-back exhaust system kits come standard with tailpipes, a performance muffler and exhaust tips. The inclusion of our wider, mandrel-bent tailpipes means cat-back exhausts are your go-to for increasing your performance gains along with boosting your sound. While horsepower and torque gains vary from vehicle to vehicle, you can expect anywhere from a percent gain in horsepower and torque after installing a cat-back exhaust system.
You also need to be careful when tightening the bolts on the cat back. Over-tightening can damage the system, so just make sure they're tight enough to hold everything in place. It's important to make sure that the cat back is properly aligned with the exhaust pipe. If it's not, you could end up with an inefficient or even dangerous exhaust system. Competitors often rely on generic silencers or gimmicks that claim to cut out drone without any real knowledge or development involved.
By running pipes from the catalytic converter to the muffler and from the muffler to the exhaust tip, cat back exhaust systems improve exhaust gas flow, providing small performance boosts. However, your performance gains may be limited if your catalytic converter restricts gas flow, as a catback exhaust system is installed ‘downstream’ of the converter. Header-back systems are increasingly rare, namely because of modern emissions systems. Since removing your vehicle’s factory emissions components is highly illegal, the previous two options are more common. However, header-back systems are still available for some older, pre-emissions applications. In these cases, header-back systems offer more performance and volume than cat-back or axle-back systems