Man how badly does this hurt your MPG? Lmao, I dunno what good flames can do.

what if my compression is a bit low? will that affect it in anyway? were not talking super low but mildly ( i know its mild only because i still have the same power output but occasionally i have crappy starts, although that may be because my vaccum hoses are shot)

but other than that, your saying just remove the cats and put a straight pipe, with no other tampering, and it can be done? what if i put a silencer or holow out a cat that way i can atleast pass a visual test? will that affect it?

Thank god for Alabama. We have laws for emissions but no way to enforce it. No yearly checks or anything, and Ive never heard of anyone being ticketed for no cats around here. Hell I ran my freinds T2 around here for a few days with no exhaust at all on it, just dp, and no cops ever turned to look.

I have a n/a with a racing beat road race (true dual) exhaust and stock mufflers and I cant shoot flames

Dave

it's like a brand new paint job. it does nothing but looks pretty, costs alot of money....but again, it looks cool!

I got a ticket once and the cop noticed and looked under the car and seen no cat so he wrote me a ticket and said get your exhaust replaced and bring it when you pay off your ticket. So i just put the stock exhaust back on luckly I still had it. I then took it off and put back on the 3" turboback as soon as I got home lol.

in my last n/a i would only shoot flames if i drove it cold it will pop and if i had it a high rpm's it will do the same.....after i had a muffler fall out from the driver side it would pop occasionally..

So it doesn't hurt it or it does? At first you make it sound like it doesn't then you said it costs alot of money.

Let me simplify things for you. If you get rid of your cats and run a straight pipe, you will shoot flames. A resonator will only deepen or change the exhaust note. If there is nothing hindering the flow of the exhaust, you will shoot flames.

When I was shooting flames, I had the stock header, a bonez straight pipte, and Apex GT spec exhaust. Popped flames all the time. Then I switched to Racing Beat header, but I put in a cat (for the aux port activation) and kept the same exhaust. No pops, no flames. I know if I punch out the cats, I'll be shooting flames again, but I'm over it.

Now as far as the police are concerned. CA officers are harsh on any kind of modified import vehicle, because the import scene is really big out here and there are a lot of youngins running around. Not to mention the smog. That's why emissions is a big deal out here. I've even heard that officers are setting up check points at freeway entrances with mobile smog check units down in San Diego.

popping at idle only serves a couple purposes.. it looks cool, its a conversation starter, and it scares people.

I didnt do anything special to make my car do this... just RB downpipe presilencer, and no mufflers. It runs rich, very rich, i get like 12mpg... my engine is on its last leg... 215k miles on stock build.

its not BAD for the car... its just bad when you only get 190 miles to a tank.:fawk:

Yeah, they are talking about doing that here in sacramento as well. man.. i need a super stock geo metro type of car that gets 45mpg... and cops never look at.

Haha, sounds like my car...
:p Gotta fill up every week. D:

man, if only it was once a week! lol i fill up at least 3 times a week. i wouldn't mind having bad gas millage if gas wasn't 3something a gallon :mad:

I miss the days when it was only 78 cents a gallon! lol and i thought it was expensive then!

i have a turbo and if i took my cats off wouldnt that mess something up???
dont u have to have a certain amount of back pressure???

Damn you, thread-necromancer.

I was at a cruise night here last summer and the traffic doesnt move hardly at all. There was this one asshole that thought riding my ass would get it to move faster though. I freereved it like 5 times to 8 grand shooting a flame evertime and he was only about half a foot away:rlaugh: . I think it charred his bumper but couldnt tell. He was pissed. That was when it was n/a still though.

Go ahead and try it.
Make sure you have money for the new motor though.

ND rocks, no noise ordinance in my town and no emissions. I run NO exhaust, I'm talking manifold and thats it. Its realy effing loud but this is hick country so the chicks like it.

Why would taking the cats out make your motor blow??? From what I know the less backpressure on a turbo car the faster it spools. You dont need any for a turbo car.

everyone said it already... striaght pipe/ highflow bonez... maybe a header.. it gets boring after a while... i wanted to shoot flames for so long and when i did... i didn't like it as much... i love seeing it but dealing with the fumes was simply exhausting. hah

You don't need any backpressure. Backpressure is bad. Period.

Except...the turbo will boost creep with too much exhaust flow, and if you don't port the wastegate and let the boost get too high, you can blow the engine.

--Alex

reatrdedspleen. lol 19mpg? i wish i got that. I'm working on rb headers, straight pipe to rb mufflers. thats about it. should do it but this is only till i get my turbo 2 engine eventually. mmmmm i can't wait. I've never heard the true sound of a rotary and now I'll finnaly be able to.

somebody was telling me that if you dont have backpressure on a turbo it can close your 5th and 6th ports???

anyone have fire balls? not just the flames? It seems to happen to me everyonce in a blue moon but I will downshift getting off the highway and I see 1 HUGE orange ball in my rearview mirror and my side mirror. Just a huge ball ball of flame!

Turbo's don't have port actuators...
Flames are cool at night... I think you'd look pretty stupid if your car was slow and shot flames..