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Dec 10, 2002 | 07:00 PM

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WALLstAL

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Re: Took the cats off..... (OliverM5)

You can always get those electrical cutouts that open and close from a control inside the car. I think Gary Brown (MR. WCCC) just had a set installed.

Dec 10, 2002 | 09:41 PM

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bparker

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Re: Took the cats off..... (C5Noir)

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The smell will go away after about a week ;)

It didnt go away - you are just dizzy from the fumes.. :lol: :lol: :lol: :jester

Yep - mine does still smell and I take a huge whif every morning to start the day off right... :D

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Dec 10, 2002 | 11:21 PM

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Re: Took the cats off..... (C5Noir)

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The smell will go away after about a week ;)

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Dec 10, 2002 | 11:22 PM

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bruce1

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Re: Took the cats off..... (OliverM5)

Same smell here..... I am looking to go with the high flow cats too.
:cry

Dec 10, 2002 | 11:25 PM

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Re: Took the cats off..... (bruce1)

There are some nice sigs in the thread. :eek: :thumbs:

Dec 11, 2002 | 09:23 AM

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Re: Took the cats off..... (bparker)

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Yep - mine does still smell and I take a huge whif every morning to start the day off right... :D

I guess I'm not the only one out there who likes the smell. :D

Dec 11, 2002 | 09:41 AM

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Rx7Rob

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Re: Took the cats off..... (Face)

The smell is absolutely non-existent as compared to an uncorked Rx7!!!

I think it takes 30 start cycles before the error code gets set. I seem to remember a year or so ago one of the vendors did before / after dyno tests on a typically modded car (exhaust, airbox, maf screen, stock exh manifolds) and got 17 rwhp.

Hey, and with the latest changes regarding emissions output from the dirtiest power-plants, car emissions is waaaaaay down in the noise :-)

Dec 14, 2002 | 06:06 PM

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Re: Took the cats off..... (OliverM5)

I took off my cats and put in o2 sims and had to go back 3 d later for a chk engine light (bad simulator). The power increase is noticeable. High flow cats are not really "high flow". We had the pipes off and looked at the catalytic converter material, it's a very dense honeycomb of material and it has to be an impediment to flow esp in forced induction cars. The guys at GM Express in Miami race alot and they were very insistant that the cats should come off my car. The smaell isn't bad and it is a little louder but pleasureably so. Not sorry I did it :yesnod: :smash: