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I currently only have a lid and I wanted to know if I empty my cats would that give me more power or would it hurt me instead? I put a lid and I'm amazed that I gain 6rwhp. I dynoed my car and it made 291/320 to the wheels. When I put the lid it went up to 297/328. So I was just wondering if I cut my cats off if it would give me some more power.
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I would never remove them. Your exhaust always sounds worse after removing them, whether you have an aftermarket kit or not. I added a resonator to mine because the rasp w/o cats was so bad.
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The exhaust always sounds better without them, so long as you use some bullet mufflers in the Y-pipe, get true duals, or run a very low rasp catback.
Of course, if you run an ORY and Loudmouth, then yes it sounds rather shitty.