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I was wondering, since I don't have to go thru all that emissions crap down here, could I just run a piece of pipe in place of my cat converter? I'm guessing if I did that I would have to pull off all those pipes that go to the air cleaner and everything too. Its just something I was thinking about as I was looking at it on jackstands yesterday waiting on parts, ha. Would it hurt the gas mileage? I just noticed earlier this year when I was driving down the road with the hatch up (went to lowes and had a box for a backyard canopy sticking out of the back and 10 bails of pinestraw, ha) that the exhaust sound coming out of the back while driving kinda sounded like it was sputtering. I really don't know how to describe the sound other than it just didn't sound right to me.
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I took my cat off my 88 and used a tire tool to clean all the guts out, then reinstalled it and hooked all the pipes up as they were originally. It's been 3 years and 32,000 miles now and i have had no problems.1960 willys pickup
1967 jeep cj5
1988 festiva
1989 festiva
1990 festiva for parts
1991 s-10
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" —Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -
that is what i did, no guts left in it...
Mike, AKA the sasquatch
1990 LX, bp+T/g25mr, 9psi dynoed at 194HP, turbonetics t3/to4e 57trim, haltech E6X standalone, 550cc injectors, turbosmart wastegate, synapse BOV, walbro 255 fuel pump, aeromotive FPR, AEM wideband, 3 inch exhaust, huge FMIC, 9LB flywheel, 6 puck clutch and way more parts that im forgetting i installed lol...Comment
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Sounds like a plan....now to see if I can get it off, ha
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i would take the cat to a junkyard because junkyards (around me at least) will buy your cat for good money. I have a friend who bought an old chrysler 5th ave. from a neighbor for super cheap(somewhere around 300 if i remember correctly), took the THREE cats off and nearly paid for the car with the money he got for the cats91 lx 4d hatch - first car and would be my father's dd if he would fix the waterpump
91 lx 2d hatch - parts car
92 lx-e - the quick, beat-up rustbucket
98 se - the luxury dd
in search of a festy...
Going quickly in a slow car is more fun than going fast in a fast car, cause anyone can go fast in a fast car, but you take a car that is essentially not that powerful, and make it do things that its not supposed to be able to do, well that's where the real fun is. - Jay LenoComment
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