exaust, cad converter Options

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does any body know if i will get any hp form cutting off my can converter ? or will it just hirt my car more then it would help .

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QUOTE (NEVERSTOP @ Nov 30 2002, 11:55 PM)

This does add hp but you will need a freer flowing exhaust other than stock or you will create back pressure... also it's illegal... which makes no diff to me cuz the cops around here all know me by name... kinda sucks where there 1/4million people that live here.... back to the cat... the best thing that you can do if your worried about it being legal is to remove the cat temporaily, get some straight piping that is just a hair smaller than the stock pipe leading into the cat and insert it into the cat. inside your cat is this honeycomb stuff.... hammer that new pipe threw the honeycomb stuff and then remove the pipe. clean it out and put it back into your cat. trim the edges and hook it back up to your car... you will bypass the cat this way and still look legal to any nosey cops...

unless he has to pass emissions in his county...
that's one thing to check man, it may make a check engine light come on, and it's gonna screw w/ the emissions of the car, and you might have to turn around and buy a new cat after you do that. if you wanna do somethin similar to what NEVERSTOP was sayin, make a test pipe. basically, you measure from flange to flange on the CAT, then make a pipe that long, and put a matching flange on each side. that way, you can interchange the 2 by unbolting/bolting on whichever you need on emissions day, and you don't ruin a perfectly good catalytic converter. also, that's gonna make the exhaust a little louder, so w/ a larger after-cat exhaust, you'll wanna think about makin sure you keep a resonator on there, or else it'll rasp out the mufler and sound like a big ol assbag.
-John-