Anybody have a suggestion how to eliminate the catalitic converter?

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Black L 01 #4140 of 6381
Diablo chip;Single blade throttle;
Cold air intake;Electric fan;
DS loop;410 gear;X exhaust;
5lb extra lower sc pulley;
rear traction bars;retrax roll top;

 

you could try a torch!! ....JR

J/K

 

Or maybe a sawzall...lol....

 

Plasma Cutter!!


just kiding.


Unless you have long tubes I wouldn't even waste your time trying to run without cats. I tried it with a full bassani exhaust and shorty headers and it sounded worse and I lost power and low end TRQ.

 

plasma cutter nice clean cut...love the plasma

 

This brings up a very good point. We need an "Off Road H Pipe" like the 5.0 Mustang guys have. The GM guys use Oxygen sensor simulators to fool the OBD2 computer into thinking the cats are still working.
I guess it's just a matter of time until somebody sells them ......

 

It's been my experience that good high performance cats offer virtually no additional backpresure vs. a straight pipe.

Do the environment a (small) favor and run with cats, even at the track.

Coldie

 

It's been my experience that the cat wastes fuel (3/4 less MPG) and costs HP (Vette won't run 12's with cat in).
Enron pollutes more in one minute than my rarely used race car ever will in my lifetime.

 

I'll agree that OEM cats waste HP/MPG (basically the same thing really since you're wasting HP, it takes more fuel to do anything), but a nice high performance cat system doesn't hurt any car I know of.

Coldie

PS: true about enron, but still, it makes me feel slightly better.