| Fly Boy, that's what I call the old Integra, has been | | | | looks just like the Ferrari prancing stallion and let's face |
| jetting me around town for 5 years now. I bought it | | | | it; they make a dirt cheap performance system. |
| from my Grammy when she got her new Crown Vic. | | | | Yes, yes, like all the other exhaust brands, Pacesetter |
| The thing was pretty sporty right out of the box, but I | | | | rambles on about mandrel-bending and precision |
| just couldn't leave it alone. When I started drifting with | | | | standards. All that info really means nothing to me, so I |
| the boys I knew it was time for some mods. Right | | | | decided to crunch some numbers. The Pacesetter kit |
| away I added a short ram intake and a performance | | | | for Fly Boy runs about 250 bones, depending on |
| chip. I was quickly crowned King Drifter of our local | | | | where you shop. Not bad for a name brand system |
| abandoned Sears parking lot drift track. | | | | that runs from the cat back. |
| Soon though, the competition stiffened up. Johnny Utah | | | | How about Flowmaster? Of course, Flowmaster also |
| got a new RSX and started to blow door on my old | | | | yammers on about mandrel-bent this and that-blah, |
| Fly Boy. Shakey's rickety old CRX was also giving me | | | | blah, blah. These exhaust guys really have to come up |
| and Fly Boy a run for our money. And occasionally, this | | | | with something a little more fresh. |
| cat named Li'l Puppet comes up from the South Side | | | | Anyway, Flowmaster has also been around for nearly |
| with his super-fast Celica just to kick some butt on our | | | | 30 years and made a name for themselves in the |
| local boys. | | | | world of hot rodding. Their systems seem to be |
| Well, after the last whipping I took from Li'l Puppet, I | | | | popular with other drifters and I see their name |
| decided that Fly Boy needed some more work. I | | | | plastered all over the events that me and Fly Boy |
| checked out the tuner mags and forums and | | | | attend. Of course, the only advertising going on at our |
| narrowed it down to 2 brands-Pacesetter and | | | | clandestine drift races is the fist pumping and smack |
| Flowmaster. Both makes are super popular with the | | | | talking of the winner. |
| tuner crowd; in fact each brand has a pretty rabid | | | | The Flowmaster system for my Fly Boy costs less |
| following. After listening to a bunch of mindless | | | | than 200 bucks; which is a $50 savings over the |
| propaganda, I decided I'd have to get to the bottom of | | | | Pacesetter. Of course, this is only a flange-back |
| this myself. Let's start with Pacesetter. | | | | system, so I'm guessing it will extract a little less power. |
| Pacesetter has been in the performance-exhaust | | | | It truly is a beautiful system though; well thought out |
| game for over 30 years. They started with their now | | | | and solidly built. |
| famous Monza system that was a huge hit with VW | | | | Since my bottom line is winning, not saving 50 bucks, I |
| hot rodders back in the day. They took the same | | | | finally decided to go for the Pacesetter kit. And guess |
| design and tweaked it for a number of late model | | | | what? Me and the Fly Boy are once again setting the |
| tuner rides-like the Fly Boy. They have a cool logo that | | | | pace down at the Sears lot. Yeah! |