cats and a big cam?
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cats and a big cam? unfortunately i have been hearing many stories of the police cracking down on cars not running cats. over the winter i will be installing the headers, true duals, heads and cam i bought. the cam is a MS4 so i'm worried it will kill the cats if i do install them. anyone had any experience with this? i dont know if this topic has been discussed before but search is down so i'm postin up. thanks in advance
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i am running lg pro hearders and x-pipe no cats, b&b prt exhaust and a big cam and its not overly loud. my vette is also lowerd 2 inches about so if a cop wants to try and crawl under there and look hes going to have a hard time trying to see anything
OFF TOPIC: that's why i'm getting collector's registration...i won't have cats with my turbo setup
ON TOPIC: my cats have held up fine with my setup for the last 6000 miles (3k of that was with Heads & Cam)
ON TOPIC: my cats have held up fine with my setup for the last 6000 miles (3k of that was with Heads & Cam)
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i'm most concerned about the smell. any cop will know i am BSing with a gutted cat. besides, they will throw the book at me if they do realize my car is gutted
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Originally Posted by qwikz28
its a felony if i'm not mistaken. it varies from state to state.
i see your in cali, i'm pretty sure cali is the strictest with their emissions.
i see your in cali, i'm pretty sure cali is the strictest with their emissions.
Ky its about a $2500 fine IF you GET CAUGHT or reported by some ******* shop (VERY unlikely there). Ruin the cats? only if you run really rich after all the installation and tuning. restriction? more than likely. i second the gutted cat idea. If your not running rich then the smell wont give you away (cats typically stink only as they warm up). I dont know how big the cam is but that might give you away. Imho
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I hear its the death penalty in Cali, firing sqaud most likely
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Originally Posted by iamsickofitall
nope...they make you wear sandpaper underpants for a month and jog a mile a day during that time period
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Go no cats w/ a cutout + maybe a magnaflow bullet. I dont know how the cops are on the east coast, but theyre absolutely bi*ches out here in CA. Your car will be plenty loud, but if youre watching for cops youre not going to be gunning it. I've cruised right by cops 5 MPH over the speed limit with no cats, and they havent even looked at me. If they caught me at WOT that would be a verfy different story. As for the penalty I believe its $2500 per cat as well as impound! They'll pull you over for nothing and then be like oh ya you were pulled over for your front plate...can you pop you hood? Someone needs to invent that thing where it switches your plate around like the old 007 movies! Then I'd cut some bacon off their back and gun it, couldnt catch me 
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i guess the consensus is magnaflow bullets with a cat shield
and i know running rich kills cats so i can imagine a cold start up would kill the cat. i didnt know that cams run rich when cold, so that would explain the cams killing cats story.
and i know running rich kills cats so i can imagine a cold start up would kill the cat. i didnt know that cams run rich when cold, so that would explain the cams killing cats story.
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Originally Posted by qwikz28
i guess the consensus is magnaflow bullets with a cat shield
and i know running rich kills cats so i can imagine a cold start up would kill the cat. i didnt know that cams run rich when cold, so that would explain the cams killing cats story.
and i know running rich kills cats so i can imagine a cold start up would kill the cat. i didnt know that cams run rich when cold, so that would explain the cams killing cats story.
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Originally Posted by 1nicec5
i am running lg pro hearders and x-pipe no cats, b&b prt exhaust and a big cam and its not overly loud. my vette is also lowerd 2 inches about so if a cop wants to try and crawl under there and look hes going to have a hard time trying to see anything
they would hurt their back looking at my exhaust also---I know I do. not as low as you though i bet... Last edited by NHRAMAN; Sep 3, 2006 at 02:57 PM.
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Originally Posted by NHRAMAN
they would hurt their back looking at my exhaust also---I know I do. not as low as you though i bet...
yeah our cats are honeycomb if i'm not mistaken
