RE: Removing Cats

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Also see the article regarding cats at the beginning of the recent (March??)
ec with all the project cars on the front.

Ian Duff, New Bedford, MA
1990 Coupe Quattro

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>From: 	Tim at ND[SMTP:turbotim@newdimensions.com]
>Sent: 	Monday, March 25, 1996 5:33 AM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Removing Cats
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>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. 
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>turbotim@newdimensions.com
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