Cutting of Cats
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Cutting of Cats
Well I may sound dumb for posting this but i couldnt find anything about it. I am very tight on funds at the moment so i want to cut the cats off of my FC and weld in a straight pipe. I have heard good and bad. The good is of course slight hp gains, the bad was that since you lose back pressure the car doesnt want to start. I have no idea. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Well I may sound dumb for posting this but i couldnt find anything about it. I am very tight on funds at the moment so i want to cut the cats off of my FC and weld in a straight pipe. I have heard good and bad. The good is of course slight hp gains, the bad was that since you lose back pressure the car doesnt want to start. I have no idea. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Now since i'm guessing a rx7, i got a 88 n/a with a r/b header straight back into magna flows, and i have ZERO problems starting, even with it being below 20F, takes about 2 revolutions and fires right up
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Slight hp gains until i get the money to buy the racing beat exhaust kit i want! the financial problem is being a college student, and nothing is gonna fix that
But thank you for clearing that up.
But thank you for clearing that up.
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OK, but you are proposing something that will cost time and money. It isn't a good idea to go forward with this project unless the cats are so clogged that they are severely affecting gas mileage. Anyway, as mentioned above, it has zero effect on starting.
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it's been about 10 years since i started saying this but it still holds true for most anyone. if you have a stock engine you are better off leaving all the emissions equipment in place. only a turbo engine has any real benefit from removing them.
if your cat is dying or dead just have it replaced, this usually costs no more than $200 and you won't smell like a dirty hooker at a gas station when you drive. if you want to remove it and deal with the auxiliary ports and an activation system for maybe a 10horsepower increase(if you actually follow through with a proper auxiliary port activation device), have fun with that.
in all my time working on these cars the non turbos that perform the best are usually the ones where no one has been ******* around in the engine bay. it's almost a pleasure driving a 100% stock car that doesn't smell like raw gas, is loud as a banshee and feels like i'm crawling because the noise still doesn't give me an impression of a faster speed... the non turbo stock engine cars run best all around with a somewhat restrictive exhaust system. i drove a non turbo s5 recently with a dual header into a single 3" mid-car and i was unimpressed, it was slower than a stock s4 non turbo car(not to mention it sounded like a hornet stuck in my ear), maybe the nitrous will wake it up..
if your cat is dying or dead just have it replaced, this usually costs no more than $200 and you won't smell like a dirty hooker at a gas station when you drive. if you want to remove it and deal with the auxiliary ports and an activation system for maybe a 10horsepower increase(if you actually follow through with a proper auxiliary port activation device), have fun with that.
in all my time working on these cars the non turbos that perform the best are usually the ones where no one has been ******* around in the engine bay. it's almost a pleasure driving a 100% stock car that doesn't smell like raw gas, is loud as a banshee and feels like i'm crawling because the noise still doesn't give me an impression of a faster speed... the non turbo stock engine cars run best all around with a somewhat restrictive exhaust system. i drove a non turbo s5 recently with a dual header into a single 3" mid-car and i was unimpressed, it was slower than a stock s4 non turbo car(not to mention it sounded like a hornet stuck in my ear), maybe the nitrous will wake it up..
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Damn, didnt mean to offend, and I do appreciate it, its my second one, my first one got slammed by an 18 wheeler that didnt give a f*** and ran a light, my bad though
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