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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 09:47 AM
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As you may or may not know, the fine for not having cats has gone up (at least from what I knew it was) and the penalty is worse. My inspection place will pass me if i install the shell on the oustide of the exhaust just so it appears that I have cats, which is not a big deal.

but if i'm going to go through the trouble of doing all this, I was wondering if it would be wise to install cats;
I got to wondering if the DMV/state gov't would start doing actual tailpipe sniffs to verify that cats are on cars and working??

i already get around the computer part no problem
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 08:42 PM
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anybody... lol. or am i just another person worrying about stupid inspections
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 11:44 PM
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If its bugging you that much, then yes put the cats back on, also your rasp will go away, and our cars seem to sound alot nicer.
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Old Oct 13, 2006 | 11:53 PM
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high flow cats arent that bad unless you are running FI or spray.

I lost ~10hp N/A and close to 20 with a slightly different config. This is with high flow cats from KooKs. Based on my own back to back testing on a Mustang Dyno.
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I just don't want to not install cats... and then go get inspected and get sniffed and be ******. I have some high flow cats from FLP, going to cut off the flanges

and only problem here is i'm going FI with the STS kit, and yes i realize its going to hurt my HP figures.
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