Exactly what I have. I went to get inspected and when they did the emission testing part I passed and then they looked said I didn't have cats and failed me. Bought some cats off of AM had a guy gut them and put them in and sounds no different
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Exactly what I have. I went to get inspected and when they did the emission testing part I passed and then they looked said I didn't have cats and failed me. Bought some cats off of AM had a guy gut them and put them in and sounds no different
Exactly what I have. I went to get inspected and when they did the emission testing part I passed and then they looked said I didn't have cats and failed me. Bought some cats off of AM had a guy gut them and put them in and sounds no different
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Well since you haven't heard your car catless it will sound different. It will be louder and meaner like having an O/R mid pipe.
You have any problems with a "check engine" light? I also wonder about a significant drop in mileage. The reason I ask is... I gutted a truck cat once because the honeycomb guts had crumbled and it sounded like gravel churning. I soon noticed a check engine light when pulling off a highway to stop. The cat cooled quicker than normal, and the light came on. I also noticed higher fuel consumption. I assume the gutted cat wouldn't stay hot, so the computer dumped in more fuel to try heating it up. The tailpipe stayed black and fuel smoke was visible until I replaced the cat. After that, everything was normal again.
No. If you have mufflers on it you wont ever get stopped. If you run no cats no mufflers there is a chance but thats how my old car was and I never got stopped.
I gutted mine today and started it with no mufflers and took her for a drive. Came back and put my mufflers back on. Way too loud for my taste without them.
You take them off, once they off you can cut them in half and get all the mesh type metals out. After that you weld them together and put them back. Orrrrr you can just put a pipe there and sell your cats to a scrap yard for 100 bucks or so. Then you will have a free offroad mid pipe
Ha, I've had a set of cats for almost a year that I can't sell to save my life. As for the gutting method, that's what I was thinking just making sure that wasn't the hard way.
I did it before were I just took them off and beat the living daylights out of the inside and it didnt get all the metal so that way doesnt work too well. But all you gotta do is go to a scrap yard
Yeah I have done the same and then one of the guys told me that In my area that they were starting to do emissions checks and the fine would be $10,000.
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And the $10,000 dollar fine would be for the person running it and the mechanic who did it.
I'm running almost straight pipes just with cats but everybody I know loves the sound of my car and I love watching people turn there heads when they here me coming. I like the sound better than my friends car with flow masters plus my car is way louder
I removed my cats & mufflers. Just running Long tubes, off-road h pipe, and straight pipes out back. Sounds freaking amazing! Be warned though, above 4k rpm it will be LOUD! I live in a state where emission checks don't exist, so I'm good on that.
I have cut out switches on my 08 gt and flowmasters but recently the got stuck open and I've been riding around with them open and haven't had any attention from cops
I ran open headers on my car for a couple minutes when swapping out midpipes. On idle it sounded so beautiful, I almost didn't want to put the midpipe on.
It shoulda good but I want some headers to get rid of the last two I have and it really will open up but I need a tune because I get a big power gain and better mpg when I have them closed
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