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Old Nov 20, 2022 | 02:15 PM
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Did small cam (btr 1 v2) along with headers and off road midpipe. The exhaust smell isn’t a huge deal, but it’s annoying occasionally. Thinking about adding cats. Seeing 200/sq in and 400/sq in. The 200’s were recommended for high performance. Anybody know if the less dense (200) will clean up the smell? Any other suggestions or tips?
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Yes they will. My C5 Z06 was cammed with long tubes and I added Magnaflow universal 200 cell count cats to my X pipe and it cleaned up the smell nicely, wasnt bad at all after that.
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I have an A & A S/C with Belanger Custom Tri-Y Headers, and Magna Flow High Flow Cats (53956). Very clean, and passes smog test in Metro Phoenix, Arizona.
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FedEx guy just dropped off my cats. Back to work.
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Leave at at least 4" from the end of the collector spike, to the start of the cat combs (inside the end pipe where the collectors spike end in the pipe, to the start of the combs in the cats.

This will be enough room/volume to not disturb the Benelli effect of the header collectors.
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You can tune out most of the smell, by leaning the mixture at idle and reducing the idle rpm.
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