Removing catalytic converters?
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Pro
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: MA
Removing catalytic converters?
Is there kit or pipes you can buy that will eliminate the cats? No welding or altering the stock exhaust. Something that can be bolted in and out as needed. It would be for a '03 Z06 my buddy has, I did a search and am aware of all the downsides.
Thanks for any info.
Thanks for any info.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: Des Moines Iowa
No real benefit to removal of cats, and you'll do harm to the air quality, and you'll get the rotten egg smell. The '02 to '04 Z06 came with a better cat. and without the hp robbing (5hp) 'pup-cats'.
Race Director
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From: West Norriton PA
St. Jude Donor '08
Also you can't sell the car that way. Buy some hi flow cats if it's that big of a concern to ya.
Safety Car
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From: San Rafael CA
Vendors like Katech are getting nervous about this whole "engine modification" issue, especially tampering with the cats. That's why they are making posts and setting policies like this ....
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=2042367
I cut this from the NW Regional EPA web site ......
The motor vehicle tampering provisions of the Clean Air Act apply to everyone. The Clean Air Act prohibits removing or rendering inoperative any emission control device or element of design installed on or in any motor vehicle or engine designed to meet federal standards. The tampering provisions also prohibit the manufacture, installation, sale or offering for sale of any part or component used on any motor vehicle, including motorcycles or motor vehicle engines, where the primary objective is to bypass, defeat, or render inoperative any emission control device, such as the catalytic converter, or element of design of any emission control system. The maximum civil penalty under this section of the Clean Air Act is $25,000 per violation for a manufacturer or dealer, $2,500 for any other person, . This law applies across the U.S. regardless of whether the vehicle is registered in an I/M test area.
The EPA already wacked the guys who were making/selling O2 sims .... it appears they are going after both the catalyst issue and also the issue off "tuned" engine management software.
Posts on these forums aren't very "smart" asking for help removing the cats .... kinda like posting "I want to rob a bank .... are there any sites that will tell me how to do it???"
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Pro
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Dont gut the cats!!!!!! Those ****ers are work 200 bucks if youll just cut them off and give them to a recycler.. My guy paid me almost 200 bucks cash on the spot.. I used the money to pay me back for my texas speed long tubes..
Instructor
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From: Houston TX
You're asking for flexibility of an aftermarket full exhaust systems like the LG's. Without any morality lectures, there's nothing I am aware of that will allow you swap in a straight pipe for the cats in an off-road application.
Your best bet barring custom exhaust fab is what was recommended above by RonSS- buy a used H-pipe do what you need to the cats and swap the entire the H-pipe as needed.
Your best bet barring custom exhaust fab is what was recommended above by RonSS- buy a used H-pipe do what you need to the cats and swap the entire the H-pipe as needed.
Drifting
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From: Akron Ohio
Here you go, for factory manifolds
http://www.lethalperformance.com/pag...ad-x-pipe.html
One more.....
http://www.superchargers4less.com/ba...e_pictures.htm
http://www.lethalperformance.com/pag...ad-x-pipe.html
One more.....
http://www.superchargers4less.com/ba...e_pictures.htm
Drifting
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From: Annapolis Md.
bassini
Here you go, for factory manifolds
http://www.lethalperformance.com/pag...ad-x-pipe.html
One more.....
http://www.superchargers4less.com/ba...e_pictures.htm
http://www.lethalperformance.com/pag...ad-x-pipe.html
One more.....
http://www.superchargers4less.com/ba...e_pictures.htm
That Bassini set up looks awesome. are those straight tubes fake converters? I see the sensors.. and also i have 4 sensors and i just see two on that set up is there two more connected further up??????
Also, I noticed some CALIFORNIA boys seem a little hard nose about the environment.[ Come on ]the smog capital of the world speaks out. Yeeeeeeeeeeee
Anyway, i guess they are more strict on enforcement of cats there. I went to emmissions in Md. after spending a grand puting cats on and they gave me a two year waiver. cause my FRC sits so low they couldn't get there mirrors under vehicle to check. What a waste of freakin money. 
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Pro
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From: MA
Here you go, for factory manifolds
http://www.lethalperformance.com/pag...ad-x-pipe.html
One more.....
http://www.superchargers4less.com/ba...e_pictures.htm
http://www.lethalperformance.com/pag...ad-x-pipe.html
One more.....
http://www.superchargers4less.com/ba...e_pictures.htm
Le Mans Master
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From: Wichita KS
They go for $250 on the auction site!! I have no cats and the smell sucks and I get soot deposits after a good 100 miles of driving on my rear bumper.
Le Mans Master
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Drifting
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From: Annapolis Md.
smell
Luvmy C5is right. When u get a rotten egg smell,that comes from the cats. Tuner up,, if u have a radical cam the valve overlap smells like tear gas! Ohh how i love that smell!!! Take the damn cats off. Hell I would love to see a cop try to see my cats. I don't even think their visual robots could get 2 1/4 '' under my car. Yeeeeeeeeeeeee