that cat will be welded on and then what ya gonna do?
Good or bad idea?
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From: Kinzers. PA
Good or bad idea?
Tomorrow when i come home from work i was thinking about pulling off my catilitic converter. Then taking a pipe and smashing it with a hammer straight through the cat. To take everything on the insides out and make it a straight pipe
Now is this a good idea for now? I dont need to worry about emissions but i dont want to put the money into a straight pipe right now, will this cause any problems, or hurt anything? If i do it ill take pictures of the prosess
Now is this a good idea for now? I dont need to worry about emissions but i dont want to put the money into a straight pipe right now, will this cause any problems, or hurt anything? If i do it ill take pictures of the prosess
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From: Kinzers. PA
Originally Posted by SIXFOOTER
why bother smashing anything, just remove the cat and bypass it, what can it cost? $10
Ps. With school going i cant work alot until im 16(in3weeks) so im strapped for cash cars kind of not getting new parts much, more of me working on things right now. Its hard being 15 with one, there money and time consuming.
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Doubt the cat will come off without major structural damage making any thought of reattaching impossible. Cats get super hot and if it's original, the clamps will seems like they are welded on. You could cut it off but that wouldn't allow for reattaching. Be patient and wait for new exhaust. 
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I cut the cats off a camaro once in high school and replaced it with glass packs. It sounded pretty mean.
I also had a stopped up cat on another camaro and I did what you are talking about and crushed all the stuff out of it and put it back on. Worked pretty decent.
(I was a cash strapped youth also at one time hahaha)
I also had a stopped up cat on another camaro and I did what you are talking about and crushed all the stuff out of it and put it back on. Worked pretty decent.
(I was a cash strapped youth also at one time hahaha)
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Originally Posted by LittleJake
I cut the cats off a camaro once in high school and replaced it with glass packs. It sounded pretty mean.
I also had a stopped up cat on another camaro and I did what you are talking about and crushed all the stuff out of it and put it back on. Worked pretty decent.
(I was a cash strapped youth also at one time hahaha)
I also had a stopped up cat on another camaro and I did what you are talking about and crushed all the stuff out of it and put it back on. Worked pretty decent.
(I was a cash strapped youth also at one time hahaha)
uses flanges with bolts at each end i say go for it as i think it will pop right out. last one i gutted for a friend i used a piece of rebar and worked for an hour. completely gutted the thing and and bolted it back on. he says it helped a lot it also changed the exhaust note for the better.
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Probably a bad idea. I've read somewhere that hollowing out a cat will only cause a big open chamber for your exhaust gases to bounce around in rather than to flow straight throw, so you may in fact loose horsepower over the original cat. Then again this is applicable to newer more efficient cats, anything may very well be an improvement over those old cats.
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From: Locust Grove GA
Originally Posted by kb2fzq
here's a pic of my test pipe...as you can see, it's not..."straight thru"
You may do more damage then good with your idea...
You may do more damage then good with your idea...
