this morning i got my hood popped and popo looked under my car to see if i got a cat....anyways, my car is F-CON tuned for 12psi (stock turbo and everything)....i have no cat and a full cat back exhaust. my car is quiet but very stinky, if i stand towards the back of the car while its idling... it kinda burns my eyes and nose. so my question is.. if i weld a new cat on and keep my cat back exhaust... will i be able to get rid of some of the stinkyness? because i think it was the smell that got me pulled over.

 

If it stinks and burns then it may be oil. Look into that.

Cheers,
iSP33D-for-J3SUS

 

nope my car hardly burns any oil...i can confirm that... my engine only has about 55k on it (not rebuild).

 

Seems pretty normal for having no cat. What do you have before the catback? What brand of downpipe, and what after that. Depending on the brand of downpipe, there should be a cat that is a direct fit do no welding is involved. Just remember that you can't use just any cat on a rotary, especially a turbo one. The extreme heat will kill a normal cat.

 

Sounds like a rich idle mixture.

 

it burns your eyes because you have no cats, i have several freinds that love that smell from my cars

 

before the cat back its a apexi down pipe and then after that it is a apexi gt spec full cat back exhaust with 2 pre silencers on it. the air pump has also been taken out.

 

yeah your right.... the mixture has been tuned with a HKS F-CON do you think the stock cats will be able to suppress some of the smell?

 

yeah i don't mine the smell either....but i live in socal where fat pigs loves to pull over imports..... my car is not loud but the smell was just too much, which i think that was the main reason why i got pulled over.

 

my old NA did that to me. even if i had the windows rolled down i would get a migrain from it.. i never figured out why i think i was just running pig rich the whole time.. but i did have gutted cats at tthe time.

 

did your car did the samething before the cats were gutted?