Yes, but I didn't weld mine. I didn't want to dink around with that either. Here is what I used:

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku

I cut out the old cat, removing exactly the right length of pipe, then clamped it in. Works great. I also removed the cat and drove it with a piece of exhaust piping in place of the cat for nearly a year. Last year, I left the cat installed. I haven't been driving it nearly as much since I have been doing body work on it since roughly May.

 

/\ but if they get the hunch and do check your SOL... I've had friends who have gotten nailed by the guys hearing their cars and then checking...but only if they really wanna be an A-Hole

 

Friends in Austin? Sounds like weak BS to me. I wasn't aware that there is a visual anywhere in Texas. A quick revies of the TXDPS site confirms this. The whole **** started in Dallas and spread to the other nonatainment areas after that. There is a federal law that makes it illegal to tamper with the but nowhere does Texas attempt to codify enforcing this federal law-as far as I can find. I would be quite surprised if your friends are being harrassed in Texas except for not passing the sniffer.

I think your friends were having problems with the noise regs.

Cali is a different matter. There is a visual, but I seriously doubt that a Cali inspector will make you take apart the exhaust to see if there is a brick inside the housing.

 

no tune up needed i can get it passed if you like

 

if anyone knows how to get around the georgia emissions please msg me

 

This was a long time ago. However, there may not be a visual inspection but if they want to they can look underneath all they want. If there is no cat they can fail it all they want. I'm not tryin to start an argument or anything I just know if they want to look for some odd reason, IE, "heard an exhaust leak" or just cause they have a hunch. It is not in the books stating they HAVE to look, just more so what they want to do themselves.

 

Smog testers generally have no clue what they're looking at anyhow. California smog laws make me go every 2 years, and I never use precats. Get yourself a big cat off a v8 car/truck and weld it to the flanges (or have someone at a muffler shop do it).

I didn't even have to use any alcohol or air pump tricks, and my numbers last year were:

15mph:
HC: 53 ppm (121 max)
CO: 0.36% (0.76% max)
NO: 12 ppm (807 max)

25mph:
HC: 96 ppm (96 max <-- exactly the max lol)
CO: 0.40% (0.65% max)
NO: 10 ppm (746 max)

Like how low the CA limits are? Might just register in Nevada or Arizona some day...