one thing I can not understand is on an 03 you have stainless exhaust. if you switch to flowmaster you replace a stainles with alumized. I will never really understand this. I would just get stainless flows and weld them in even if I like flows.
Wow, talk about waking up an old thread. I originally made this post in October of 2004!!
Anyway, i did go with the Flowmaster cat-back and it sounds great.
As for the rusting issue? There is none at all. Almost 1.5 years later not a speck of surface rust anywhere and it still is the same aluminized finish as when i installed it. The Flowmaster cat-back on my 5.0 is 3 years old...and same thing. No rust at all.
I don't understand the rusting issue...because i'm not seeing it.
I ended up selling the stock cat-back to someone for $50
WTFMATE???? People complain about someone asking the same question that someone hasn't asked in two weeks, saying he or she should do a search on the topic first before creating a new one. Now someone brings back an old thread and you complain about that, too? Make up your minds.