Re: Removing Cats

[STEADIRIC@aol.com]

>I see quite a bit of comments about removing cats and removing the 
>elements of the cat. I was quite surprised not to see anyone warn 
>people not to do this. A few good reasons not to do it. The first and 
>most important is the later models cars were designed to have the cat in 
>the system and removing can cause a lost in HP as well as increasing 
>emmissions. Second is the increasing inspections coming to all 50 
>states not just California and one of the future test may include 
>taking temp. measurements before and after the cat. So if you insist 
>on doing it at least save you good cat and gut a junk one so you can 
>bolt it back on when the time comes. O also forgot to tell you about 
>the $2600 fine that you or/and a service shop can be fined for 
>tampering with any emmission controls. We use to do all that kind of 
>stuff back in the early days but the laws have gotten very strict and 
>as a service facility we are an easy target for the smog police. So 
>just beware of the negative sides as the cats now are very high flow 
>and the benifits are small for the risk taken. 

Several things:

Please explain how I'm loosing HP on my car if I'm decreasing 
backpressure, Increasing Exhaust Flow, Getting the heat out and allowing 
the turbo to spinup faster..... My exhaust emisions are LOWER than the 
state mandated Mins in EVERY State In fact for the most part the exhaust 
gases are as clean as the air that I'm pumping it into.

Later!


Eric Fletcher
'87 5KCSTQIA2RSR2B

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