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Old 09-17-2010, 11:40 AM
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I ran numerous H/C setups without cats....Ill never do it again. The car sounds much more refined and you dont smell like exhaust fumes.
Go with some hi Flow cats. You'll never notice the 3-5rwhp loss.
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Originally Posted by WSsick
Anoter vote for a cutout.
Times 3 for a cut-out
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Do you lose HP or gain HP from no cats? Someone said you gain hp, and then someone said you lose which is it?
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Originally Posted by SuRihtanil
Do you lose HP or gain HP from no cats? Someone said you gain hp, and then someone said you lose which is it?
You'll gain a little power, but it's not really enough to use that as the sole reason to remove them. The people who said you'll lose power probably buy into the "backpressure" myth.
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Agreed. It's not bad from time to time, but it gets old if you're driving the car all the time. Plus some people (wife/girlfriend/etc) might really not like it... you might start to hear them say "let's take my car" way too often for just this reason.

Originally Posted by Russ K
Removing cats also causes a very stinky exhaust.

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Old 09-20-2010, 01:43 PM
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The smell and cleaning thing isn't a big deal to me seeing how I clean my car all the time and we have a boat with thru hall exhaust and love the smell lol. Just sounds like a cut out is going to work best and is fairly cheap. Now all I need to know what a good electric cut out is?




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