O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
08-07-2004, 06:05 PM
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O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
I just bought the MAC O/R H-pipe from AMP performance (yes thats right the god awful AMP performance that supposedely is horrible). Right when I got out some guy with a white cobra starts talking to me out in the parking lot. He says he just got pulled over a few days ago by a cop cause his car sounded to loud and they went under and checked for cats. He was running a High Flow H-pipe with magnaflows and they pulled him over for being to loud. So it made me question right after I bought it do I really want to take the risk of getting caught. I'm only 18 so If I get caught my insurance is gonna go up soooooo much. I'm just wondering is there a big performance and sound difference between the O/R and the Hi-Flow or will I be better off just going with the Hi-Flow and playing it safe?
08-08-2004, 05:57 AM
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RE: O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
Are you 100% sure that is the case in all states? Also if I did get a ticket because they found out I have no cats how much do you think that would cost me? My main concern was about if I get a ticket my insurance going up I dont mind as much just having to pay some money if they find out I have no cats.
08-08-2004, 01:47 PM
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RE: O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
Insurance only ups for moving volations. Besides that cop must have been really bored or the Cobra guy have have been ripping the pedal. I go by cops all the time with my O/R pipe and the don't bother(knock on wood).
08-08-2004, 08:14 PM
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RE: O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
BTW, the cats are a federal law. They have to be on every vehicle that is on the road in the entire USA.
This is why I always say get a catted pipe, it's not worth the consequence if you get caught. Hell, I had a state trooper literally lay on his back and look under my car for cats...
Exhaust violations ARE moving violations, they are surchargable in all states.
This is why I always say get a catted pipe, it's not worth the consequence if you get caught. Hell, I had a state trooper literally lay on his back and look under my car for cats...
Exhaust violations ARE moving violations, they are surchargable in all states.
08-16-2004, 07:51 AM
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RE: O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
what happened to me was i was pissed one night and went by a cop at WOT and i had off road h and original 2 chambered flows and he pulled me over and he said i was speeding and he said my exhaust was to loud. so he checked under the car with a flash light and saw i had no cats so he wrote me a ticket for speeding and illegal exhaust and i was forced to get a mid pipe with cats and 300.00 ticket to boot and i through a way my stock h-pipe so to not get more fines i had to buy an hpipe with cats and i had to bring the off road h-pipe to them and they confinscated it. so i was screwed. so its better staying with a legal exhaust. probally cant notice the difference in power with out the cats anyway. youll just loose some sound and a little hp. but high flow cats will help with the power and sounder better than stock.
08-17-2004, 01:06 AM
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RE: O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
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what happened to me was i was pissed one night and went by a cop at WOT and i had off road h and original 2 chambered flows and he pulled me over and he said i was speeding and he said my exhaust was to loud. so he checked under the car with a flash light and saw i had no cats so he wrote me a ticket for speeding and illegal exhaust and i was forced to get a mid pipe with cats and 300.00 ticket to boot and i through a way my stock h-pipe so to not get more fines i had to buy an hpipe with cats and i had to bring the off road h-pipe to them and they confinscated it. so i was screwed. so its better staying with a legal exhaust. probally cant notice the difference in power with out the cats anyway. youll just loose some sound and a little hp. but high flow cats will help with the power and sounder better than stock.
what happened to me was i was pissed one night and went by a cop at WOT and i had off road h and original 2 chambered flows and he pulled me over and he said i was speeding and he said my exhaust was to loud. so he checked under the car with a flash light and saw i had no cats so he wrote me a ticket for speeding and illegal exhaust and i was forced to get a mid pipe with cats and 300.00 ticket to boot and i through a way my stock h-pipe so to not get more fines i had to buy an hpipe with cats and i had to bring the off road h-pipe to them and they confinscated it. so i was screwed. so its better staying with a legal exhaust. probally cant notice the difference in power with out the cats anyway. youll just loose some sound and a little hp. but high flow cats will help with the power and sounder better than stock.
U have to be sh!ttin me! They confinscated it? They are illegal to run, not to have. I would think they would give you a fix it ticket. Thats your personal property!! How could they just take it? I paid like $370 for my Bassani X and f they want it thats exactly what they will give me for it. The law goes way to far sometimes.
08-17-2004, 02:03 AM
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RE: O/R H-pipe vs Hi Flow H-pipe
WTF state is that you live in? Sounds like Russia or something, they cant confiscate your property, get a lawyer and get it back thats bulls#t. In Pa any violation except speeding will not be reported to your insurance nor affect your rates, not sure about other states.
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