Anyone make a cat delete that just bolts in
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Anyone make a cat delete that just bolts in A friend and I were talking the other day and he said that Id make so much more power if I altered my exacus and ran catless.....
Well everyone knows that Im in the middle of a build up and have gone with shorties as a compromise to pass CA smog stuff. My rational was I dont want to have to pull my headers every two years and then re-install them afterwards...this would also mean Ive got to have and store a smog legal exhaust system at home ...akkk more junk in the garage!
But..I started to think..what if I just had a set of tubes that replaced the stock cats...same angles....flanges ..everything except the cat....that only involves 5 nuts to pop in or out...three on the flanges that attach to the headers and two ito the Y pipe....easy..that Id be willing to do every two years..and If I got stopped on the street by a cop who stuck his/her head under my car and found I was not running cats (Im assuming its just a fix-it ticket) I could just pop the cats in..get it signed off and be done..
Dose this have merit?
Edit..I guess its not that far fetched..I found these for a Mitsu
Well everyone knows that Im in the middle of a build up and have gone with shorties as a compromise to pass CA smog stuff. My rational was I dont want to have to pull my headers every two years and then re-install them afterwards...this would also mean Ive got to have and store a smog legal exhaust system at home ...akkk more junk in the garage!
But..I started to think..what if I just had a set of tubes that replaced the stock cats...same angles....flanges ..everything except the cat....that only involves 5 nuts to pop in or out...three on the flanges that attach to the headers and two ito the Y pipe....easy..that Id be willing to do every two years..and If I got stopped on the street by a cop who stuck his/her head under my car and found I was not running cats (Im assuming its just a fix-it ticket) I could just pop the cats in..get it signed off and be done..
Dose this have merit?
Edit..I guess its not that far fetched..I found these for a Mitsu
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Originally Posted by LILWS6
Have a shop mandrel bend you a piece of pipe Your not going to gain a huge amount of power by passing the cats but you'll gain sound
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I've read that the cats only hold back a minimal amout of corked up horspower. I would check around to see if anyone has a back to back test.
One with cats and one with aftermarket cats along with no cats. While the stock cats are not the greatest perfomance part they are not the biggest thing holding you back from all out power. Glad i'm not in cali. My car just did emissions testing in St. Louis and passed fine. Love my O2 sims.
One with cats and one with aftermarket cats along with no cats. While the stock cats are not the greatest perfomance part they are not the biggest thing holding you back from all out power. Glad i'm not in cali. My car just did emissions testing in St. Louis and passed fine. Love my O2 sims.
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Mufflex....But dammed expensive
Ok but now my next questionis....do i need to do anything else..will the car start to throw codes etc?
Ok but now my next questionis....do i need to do anything else..will the car start to throw codes etc?
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you can do something like this there was a guy selling one in the forsale section
http://www.ws6project.com/user_stor/...4fdfff6d547607
http://www.ws6project.com/user_stor/...4fdfff6d547607
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Originally Posted by youngrigo
you can do something like this there was a guy selling one in the forsale section
http://www.ws6project.com/user_stor/...4fdfff6d547607
http://www.ws6project.com/user_stor/...4fdfff6d547607
"Due to manufacturer policy, we may no longer ship this product to California customers, we apologize for the inconvenience"
Originally Posted by lsx24
I remember reading in the internal section several months ago, on a medium head/cam setup, cats only cost 10 rwhp. Ymmv. I don't think they reduce that much hp.
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