At night, mmy cats and exhaust manifold are red while the car is only idling. I looked under the car once after work and they didn't appear red. Also, I am getting somewhat bad gas mileage (250 miles/tank) but that could just be my driving. Power lets out at high RPM's (its intermittent, kind of a "blah blah blah" noise accompanied with no power) and the car seems a bit lethargic, period.

so what do you guys think, gut em?

110k miles on car.

 

you cant tell if your primary cats are collapsed because of the bends... and these are prone to collapsing. My cats used to glow red, until i gutted them. After i did that she ran STRONG.

 

Maybe I should gut my cats...they don't work anyway.

 

well, they are (almost) completely gutted.

 

you should take em off and just sit there and destroy the **** out of it (on the inside) tahts what my bro did to his FD and was running much much cooler at least it seemed like it
TwEaK

 

that or fix the problem. buy another cat or get a racepipe. gutting cats is ghe-tto.

 

or go to a muffler shop chop it off and ask them just to put a straight pipe shouldnt be more than like 50 which that is around the same price one would cost you new and installed...
TwEaK