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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 12:50 PM
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About a week or two ago my exhaust connector came loose from my y-pipe to my cat back, and i took the complete cat-back off. How hurtful is it running without a exhaust?? It ends after the y-pipe. Only drive the car about 1-2 times on the weekend, sometimes a little more.
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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 01:03 PM
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About a week or two ago my exhaust connector came loose from my y-pipe to my cat back, and i took the complete cat-back off. How hurtful is it running without a exhaust?? It ends after the y-pipe. Only drive the car about 1-2 times on the weekend, sometimes a little more.

You're not hurting anything at all. You just have an exhaust with no muffler to restrict it..
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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 02:38 PM
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people were telling me i would burn my valves out and what not. Thats not true??
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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 02:39 PM
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people were telling me i would burn my valves out and what not. Thats not true??
Nah.
There would be a slight chance of that if you were running open headers, but not from just removing your catback.
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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 02:50 PM
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Ran mine like that for a few weeks with no problems.
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ha, i took my ypipe off and ran it out of the cats. you will have no problems man
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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 02:56 PM
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thanks everyone, people were getting me nervous as **** telling me different things. Just going to run it like this till i get the exhaust back on in a week or so. Even though i will miss how loud this bitch is now, it sounds like a drag car and u can so hear the cam now.
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Old Jun 5, 2005 | 03:08 PM
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dude.....just leave it off lol

i had mine off at the auto fair they had out here, i was only bolt ons then but man it was awesome, i just felt like i had 100 more hp lol
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