Taking the cats off????
Melting Slicks
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From: Palm Beach
toss the cats. I did. just have the shop weld a bung for the 02 sensor straight to the pipe. Im running catless with duals to 2 flowmaster 40's. love it love it.
ill let the tree huggers worry about global warming and ****. the green movements are more of a gimmick than anything.
ill let the tree huggers worry about global warming and ****. the green movements are more of a gimmick than anything.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Hialeah Florida
Pro
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From: vero beach florida
Well you were the giver or taker. Either way I work for the police dept here and no officer well give someone one of those citations unless the noise is ridiculous and utterly obnoxious there are honda civics here with OPEN header and they get by. There is no way my car will be even slightly close to producing the noise levels that one of the rice burners make at all rpms or not to mention the duallys around here. WOT might be another story but when will I be at WOT.
Your lucky, I know of several area's that will, especially in a residential area.
Heel & Toe
Joined: Sep 2009
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From: MIAMI FL
hey any muffler shop that knows what their doing can cut out the cats and weld pipes instead without molesting the sensors. i just had my 95 done on monday, it will be loud but not disturbing and i have no center muffler and running borlas.
Le Mans Master
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Well I have a 94 c4 with the Billy Boat exhaust and an x-pipe. Before the x pipe I had straight pipes and in my opinion sounded much deeper and rougher. Now it has a smoother raspier tone. But I want it to be louder. Would taking the cats off make it louder? And what needs to be done? Just cut them out and replace the piping? Any muffler shop should be able to do this right? One muffler shop said i needed delete pipes and another said they would make them and charge me about 150 for everything. Is that about right?
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Burning Brakes
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From: Hialeah Florida
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From: vero beach florida
Damn your picky, just thought of something.
Why not take out the resonator, cheap and a lot easier than cats.
I have long tubes, bullit cats and stock cat back, mine is pretty quiet till I get on it. If still not loud after that, then try different mufflers or even muffler eliminators.
Why not take out the resonator, cheap and a lot easier than cats.
I have long tubes, bullit cats and stock cat back, mine is pretty quiet till I get on it. If still not loud after that, then try different mufflers or even muffler eliminators.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Hialeah Florida
I don't have a resonator. I have an x- pipe in its place. I got my Billy Boat tri flo exhaust for free and they will stay there for life. Lol. Idk only thing left Is the cats.
4th Gear
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I had the same idea you have right now for my '88. I thought about it long and hard and decided to keep the cats.(I live in Cali though so the emissions here suck) All I did was remove the system from the main cat back....so just the mufflers. Now I don't know if your '94 has the same exhaust set-up but my vette definitely sounds like there is a V-8 under the hood. Other than that I would suggest you go to a local muffler shop and have them bend you like a 3-inch pipe to use as a downturn for the exhaust so you don't heat up the fuel tank. It only cost me $50 and I can put the old mufflers back on for SMOG. Hope this helps with your decision.
Thomas
Thomas
Melting Slicks
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From: Palm Beach
Instructor
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Hey MK42 - You must you like talking down to people like a man who talks down to his wife spewing that ' a word of advice, you are a fool ' BULL****.
Calling people morons and ignorant isnt logical especially when they simply disagree with global warming and the entire SCAM that was hoisted upon the american people by socialists.
And has recently been shown that the same people who pushed it,
have been lying for years since there emails, etc, have been exposed.
I appreciate your military service, I was also in the air force many years, but you sir burned more jet fuel over the skies of this
country than a guy removing his cats. hypocrite.
Im not your wife so save the insults.
Calling people morons and ignorant isnt logical especially when they simply disagree with global warming and the entire SCAM that was hoisted upon the american people by socialists.
And has recently been shown that the same people who pushed it,
have been lying for years since there emails, etc, have been exposed.
I appreciate your military service, I was also in the air force many years, but you sir burned more jet fuel over the skies of this
country than a guy removing his cats. hypocrite.
Im not your wife so save the insults.
Pro
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From: Poinciana Florida
A Set of long tube headers with the B&B and an X pipe will after a period of time drive you and others nuts. There is a distinct difference between obnoxious noise and a pleasant loud rasp. Don't expect to carry on a conversation with your passenger.
My X pipe lasted two days before removal. It's one thing for people to hear you coming. Another to have them meet you at the curb ready to go because they heard you coming while still in the house watching tv.
When I drive through a parking lot at the old peoples home, I set off car alarms.
Also, beware of your neighbors. Over a period of time they will hate you with a vicious passion. Especially when you start the car in the early AM or arrive home late at night.
To each his own but beware the consequences.
My X pipe lasted two days before removal. It's one thing for people to hear you coming. Another to have them meet you at the curb ready to go because they heard you coming while still in the house watching tv.
When I drive through a parking lot at the old peoples home, I set off car alarms.
Also, beware of your neighbors. Over a period of time they will hate you with a vicious passion. Especially when you start the car in the early AM or arrive home late at night.
To each his own but beware the consequences.
Team Owner
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From: Boston, Dallas, Detroit, SoCal, back to Boston MA
only stupid answers
If you don't ask, how are you suppose to learn.
We don't want people doing damage to their cars because they were afraid of looking stupid.
well maybe you do...
Instructor
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From: NC
the air will be just fine if he takes the Cats off. it sounds better anyway. i took mine off, new headers, the works. and i love it. i added about 25 hp by redoing the whole exhaust.if the emissions are a big deal to you, think about this, the aircraft that you have posted for everyone to see is so freaking environmentally unfriendly its insane. i also am under 25, you sound to be in your 40's.
the point of this forum is for people to ask questions about there car, so they don't **** it up. if you don't have anything to say to help out, then just leave it alone.
Melting Slicks
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From: Reno Nv
Loud- yes, but, you can run it thru the neighborhood at low RPM and not **** anyone off. Doesn't bother the cops at low RPM.
And at highway cruise, it's quiet.
