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Old 12-26-2008, 08:53 PM
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I went from tsp true duals to a hooker catback, and slp cats. My car was tuned with the td's and I know cats lean out the car a bit, how important is a retune at this point?
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I really wouldnt worry about it, the main reason people do TD's is for the sounds IMO, from all the dyno sheets ive seen TD's flow just as well as a good catback
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thanks, but im not so much worried about the exhaust as I am the cats, anyone know how much it leans the car out
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Originally Posted by JTelesone
thanks, but im not so much worried about the exhaust as I am the cats, anyone know how much it leans the car out
after headers and ORY my car runs rich, but its not something thats going to kill your car, just your gas mileage LOL. not sure the lack of cats caused it to be rich, or if it was just the LT's.

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what Im saying is my car was tuned to a good AR with the td's w/o cats (12.5). The addition of cats will lean it out a tad right? If so, now that I have cats Im worried about it running to lean. Just how much leaner will it run? unsafe?
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i wouldnt think it leaned out that much.i wouldnt retune until you got somthing along the lines of an intake or heads and cam.
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if it does lean it out a little bit i wouldn't worry about it. I would think the computer would take care of it. If you have a way to scan, look at your fuel trims and you will see what the computer is doing.
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Originally Posted by 99345hp
if it does lean it out a little bit i wouldn't worry about it. I would think the computer would take care of it. If you have a way to scan, look at your fuel trims and you will see what the computer is doing.
i agree
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thanks guys, sounds liked a good idea.




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