a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
08-20-2006, 08:41 PM
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a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
okay... im new to this forum, but i have a big question to ask... my boyfriend has a 1998 mustang gt, he's already installed the flowmaster exhaust... and now he wants to put his bbk performance off-road x-pipe on... which means he'd have to remove the catalytic converters... would he be okay legally with that? or would he have to get the x-pipes with the cats?
08-20-2006, 08:54 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
Legally you have to have cats on the car. Thats the law anywhere you go. With that said, there are a lot of people on here, myself included, that run the off road pipes. It all depends on how strict the emission checks are in your area. I live in east TX and they could care less about emissions here. I just got mine inspected and the didnt even look under the car or make the first attempt to check for cats. If he deos decide to go with the off road pipe, make sure he keeps whatever is on there just in case. It's pretty easy to change them out so if need be he could always go back to the stock pipes.
08-20-2006, 09:03 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
So I gotta put cats on my 56 f100? damn[&o]
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Legally you have to have cats on the car. Thats the law anywhere you go. With that said, there are a lot of people on here, myself included, that run the off road pipes. It all depends on how strict the emission checks are in your area. I live in east TX and they could care less about emissions here. I just got mine inspected and the didnt even look under the car or make the first attempt to check for cats. If he deos decide to go with the off road pipe, make sure he keeps whatever is on there just in case. It's pretty easy to change them out so if need be he could always go back to the stock pipes.
Legally you have to have cats on the car. Thats the law anywhere you go. With that said, there are a lot of people on here, myself included, that run the off road pipes. It all depends on how strict the emission checks are in your area. I live in east TX and they could care less about emissions here. I just got mine inspected and the didnt even look under the car or make the first attempt to check for cats. If he deos decide to go with the off road pipe, make sure he keeps whatever is on there just in case. It's pretty easy to change them out so if need be he could always go back to the stock pipes.
08-20-2006, 09:06 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
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So I gotta put cats on my 56 f100? damn[&o]
So I gotta put cats on my 56 f100? damn[&o]
ORIGINAL: hotrod7687
Legally you have to have cats on the car. Thats the law anywhere you go. With that said, there are a lot of people on here, myself included, that run the off road pipes. It all depends on how strict the emission checks are in your area. I live in east TX and they could care less about emissions here. I just got mine inspected and the didnt even look under the car or make the first attempt to check for cats. If he deos decide to go with the off road pipe, make sure he keeps whatever is on there just in case. It's pretty easy to change them out so if need be he could always go back to the stock pipes.
Legally you have to have cats on the car. Thats the law anywhere you go. With that said, there are a lot of people on here, myself included, that run the off road pipes. It all depends on how strict the emission checks are in your area. I live in east TX and they could care less about emissions here. I just got mine inspected and the didnt even look under the car or make the first attempt to check for cats. If he deos decide to go with the off road pipe, make sure he keeps whatever is on there just in case. It's pretty easy to change them out so if need be he could always go back to the stock pipes.
08-20-2006, 09:08 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
I was talking about the 98 she was asking about. It was somewhere around 85 that the cats became mandatory. Anything made before that didnt have to follow those laws.
Sorry I didnt make that too clear [&:]
Sorry I didnt make that too clear [&:]
08-20-2006, 09:09 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
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I was talking about the 98 she was asking about. It was somewhere around 85 that the cats became mandatory. Anything made before that didnt have to follow those laws.
Sorry I didnt make that too clear [&:]
I was talking about the 98 she was asking about. It was somewhere around 85 that the cats became mandatory. Anything made before that didnt have to follow those laws.
Sorry I didnt make that too clear [&:]
08-20-2006, 09:19 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
Cats came out sometime in the 70's, I think my 76 camaro had them. They were there from the factory, but nothing said you couldnt delete the cats off until mid 80's.
08-20-2006, 09:51 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
ORIGINAL: hotrod7687
Legally you have to have cats on the car. Thats the law anywhere you go. With that said, there are a lot of people on here, myself included, that run the off road pipes. It all depends on how strict the emission checks are in your area. I live in east TX and they could care less about emissions here. I just got mine inspected and the didnt even look under the car or make the first attempt to check for cats. If he deos decide to go with the off road pipe, make sure he keeps whatever is on there just in case. It's pretty easy to change them out so if need be he could always go back to the stock pipes.
Legally you have to have cats on the car. Thats the law anywhere you go. With that said, there are a lot of people on here, myself included, that run the off road pipes. It all depends on how strict the emission checks are in your area. I live in east TX and they could care less about emissions here. I just got mine inspected and the didnt even look under the car or make the first attempt to check for cats. If he deos decide to go with the off road pipe, make sure he keeps whatever is on there just in case. It's pretty easy to change them out so if need be he could always go back to the stock pipes.
well as far as i know where i am we don't have emission checks... none of the cars that we have had gone through that... he does keep everything that has been changed or replaced on the car... that's just him...
so we could still go ahead and put the off-road pipes on and be okay as long as we keep the old ones just in case?
08-20-2006, 10:07 PM
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RE: a couple questions about a bbk performance x-pipe
Technically, he would not be legal. It does depend on where you go. Here in PA, there is emssions checks BUT, the guy that I go to just goes past that portion of the test. If you find an inspector that will wave it through, you will be fine. BTW, I have an offroad BBK x-pipe and it sounds real nice.
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