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Old Oct 24, 2018 | 07:36 PM
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Hi I’m Martin from Maryland and I drive a 2011 gs corvette So I just installed kooks long tube and x pipe which removed the cat and after about 45 min my check engline light came on what should I do to make it go away or truck the computer
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Old Oct 25, 2018 | 12:31 AM
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You need to take it to a corvette shop for a tune.
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You can't remove cats without changing the parameters in the engine control module (ECM) so like he said you need a dyno tune.
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Originally Posted by Cherokee Nation
You need to take it to a corvette shop for a tune.
Major exhaust mod such as you've done requires a tune of the ECM to get all the sensors playing together.
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