kiker14

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hey everybody - long story short - I don't have a cat converter, tried to pass emissions today by using the ole dry gas trick, almost worked, but almost is only good in horseshoes and hand grenades. That being said, I do HAVE a cat converter, and the air pump is still there and everything. But, I have a custom header on the car, and i do not have the original manifold. So what i am wondering is, have any of you ever gone to midas to have them make a pipe for you to, like to connect the cat to the muffler? I am just trying to figure out how much approximately that would cost me. Also, I do not want it to just be welded on because I would like to remove the cat and the pipe they make afterwards and put my straight pipe back on. If anybody has any approximate prices i'd appreciate it a lot! Thanks!

Stevan

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Connect the cat on, if your'e able, and drive to the nearest shop. Be sure to let up on the pedal if you see a police car at any distance.
I drove with just the exhaust manifold to 3 or 4 places, one of them was half the price of the others,$40 from the exhaust manifold to the RB muffler. I supplied the flanges though, cut from the cats.
I can't imagine it being more than that for that short a pipe.

kiker14

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yeah, getting the flanges will be a bit of a problem for me, since I don't have any "extra" flanges anywhere... maybe if I cut them off of the y pipe from my 87...

any body else have any ideas/approximations?

Shaggy's Dad

RB has the flanges by themselves and the thicker tubing. The standard tubing in exhaust shops will last 6 months tops. If this is just for a "test pipe" to hook the cat up for its once a year emission test, then midas is no problem except that some shops are strict about the no tamper rule. I've had better results with independent shops paid in cash

kiker14

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ok people, who thinks I should just bite the bullet, and go for a RB header, Bonez high flow cat, RB flange/piping to my RB PP muffler? I also figure with the high flow cat i could un-wire my 5th and 6th ports (gsl-se) and put my actuators back in...

my dad fronted me next years allowance, and this would take away a huge chunk of it. But I would replace my "custom header and straight pipe" which I'm not sure of the quality... (previous owner got it them both a few years ago...)

anybody else have the RB header to bonez high-flow cat to straigt pipe to RB muffler setup?

White Rice

i tried to take my car to midas for the same thing except i had bought a flowmaster universal cat to bolt on to my RB header...they wouldnt work on it unless i bought an entire cat unit from them...i found a place to put it on (they supplied the flanges) and it ended up costing me around $300 for everything (including the price of the cat)...the cat was extremely restrictive and i think it is not even functional anymore (the car revs just as free as it did when i had a test pipe) ... i still failed emissions ... so i had to get my sticker the "ghetto" way... in total, the cost i spent for my sticker would have been enough to buy me a brand new bonez cat unit that i could have bolted on myself and probably would have been functional

coldy13

I had midas make me an over axel pipe for a new muffler. It didn't flow the best, but it lasted for over a year and still looked fine when I took it and made my turbo exhaust.