SLP or Borla?

[UGAkilla]

If I were going to purchase a cat-back exhaust, which would ya'll recommend? SLP or Borla? I've read that they will yield about the same HP gain (8-12HP). From what I can tell, the biggest difference between SLP and Borla is the material, with Borla having the better material. Would a set of headers also help me out? If so, how much?

Now, I've seen a lot of people saying that if you go with too big piping, you will loose back-pressure and hence, torque. So, if you put a "better breathing" exhaust setup on your GA, wouldn't you loose some torque? Thanks!

[Xidion]

there is a post up tops with links to exaust sites exc and headers. Id go borla.

[kubiache]

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[UGAkilla]

OH NO!!! I beat the horse to death. I think I might go to hell for this.

Sorry guys. :bash: :doh: :kick: :isuck:

[ccarr8705]

THe SLP is louder

[Kristi]

Borla's my number one choice.. The tips are very sweet!!!

[bumpin2000gagt]

well, to be honest, the differences are slp (loud) is 2.5" and borla (quiet) is 2.25". i went with slp. they both are made of stainless steel though. i believe borla also uses a resignator (makes exhaust not flow as well and quiets the exhaust). i recommend slp, but that's me. i really really really love my car even more with the slp on it. makes heads turn all the time. i would listen to clips of the different sounds each exhaust makes and go from there. good luck.

[Pte Socks]

I like borla

[matts]

me too, but i like flowmaster too

[Eldaron]

Thing is, where can a person find decent quality recordings to make comparisons?

[matts]

http://www.exhaustsoundclips.com/gm.html

it was posted a couple weeks ago. and from the tones i can verify they sound pretty close. you can tell it's a recording, but it's going to be close to impossible to reproduce the sounds to sound like they're right there in front of you. but some of those are pretty accurate :)

[UGAkilla]

You're right. They do sound almost the same and they both claim the same HP gain. So why the $200 difference in pricing?

[ccarr8705]

Borla has better quality tips maybe thats the price difference.

[matts]

possibly, i think they're just proud of them lol. i was going to order some borla tips for my woman's car. i was going to get some that were actually square dual tips with a slight angle cut to them. i was going to order 2 of them so she would have 4 tips. $250 for just the tips......then i still gotta get them here. the rest of the tips were like $40-50.....not these.......$124.95 a piece!

[bumpin2000gagt]

those borla tips do look sweet, but i don't think they're worth the extra price. for an extra 200 i would put some more performance in the car. just my opinion.

[Pte Socks]

true, im not going with borla tips, 175 up here is way too expensive

[eric99gt]

When I bought my borla, I really didn't know to much about cars. I figured, hey it cost more is should be better. Well I'm not saying I don't like my exhaust, but if I had to do it again i would probably go slp. The only thing about my borla is that it does have that characteristic borla sound albeit quite.

[30thAnnGAGT]

Well according to the clips and what I've heard in person. I'm a Borla fan. That SLP sounds raspy, even tinny at times. Like I'm just hitting the muffler from the inside with a tack hammer. Borla seems a little deeper :)

Just my opinion though! :)

[jason0617]

I had Borla on my old '93 Probe GT. It was great, and if the cash flow is good when I'm exhaust shopping for the GA, that's what I'll get again.

[GTManiac]

video with high qaulity sound with a slp car on dyno (has eaton S/C too, so you won't get the whine unless you have the s/c too.) followed by a borla car on the dyno.

Borla gets my vote.

Also proved where the rev limiter is at the end of the video. 128.

http://evicerator.com/evicerator/movies/dynorunsborlaslp.mpg

enjoy.

[RamAirGAGT]

Originally posted by GTManiac
video with high qaulity sound with a slp car on dyno (has eaton S/C too, so you won't get the whine unless you have the s/c too.) followed by a borla car on the dyno.

Borla gets my vote.

Also proved where the rev limiter is at the end of the video. 128.

http://evicerator.com/evicerator/movies/dynorunsborlaslp.mpg

enjoy.

That's weird... I am not getting it to come through. I wish I could!

[RamAirGAGT]

Originally posted by RamAirGAGT
That's weird... I am not getting it to come through. I wish I could!

Nm.. got it. Just had to wait a little longer. Pretty long vid.

[bumpin2000gagt]

what did you use to open it? won't work at all with my windows media player.

[RamAirGAGT]

I clicked it and it ran itself. Be patient. I didn't think it would run either, but had to wait for it do dl for about 3 or so mins on DSL.

[bumpin2000gagt]

mine eventually goes to error.

[Themeneea]

its 18 megs.

those were loud exhuasts, and why was crap flying out of the exhaust?

[bumpin2000gagt]

i got mine to work, and i must say, that's the best sounding borla clip i've ever heard. much better than the normal i've found. i think both sound nice, but i still love that untamed crazy sound.