Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
11-21-2007, 05:37 PM
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RE: Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
ORIGINAL: 92lxsleeper
and when you take the cat off, you can give it to me if you don't want it... i collect catalytic converters.... every car ive had, thats my first mod, (pull off the cats)
and when you take the cat off, you can give it to me if you don't want it... i collect catalytic converters.... every car ive had, thats my first mod, (pull off the cats)
11-21-2007, 05:50 PM
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RE: Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
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Why do you keep the cats?
ORIGINAL: 92lxsleeper
and when you take the cat off, you can give it to me if you don't want it... i collect catalytic converters.... every car ive had, thats my first mod, (pull off the cats)
and when you take the cat off, you can give it to me if you don't want it... i collect catalytic converters.... every car ive had, thats my first mod, (pull off the cats)
11-23-2007, 09:31 AM
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RE: Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
ORIGINAL: mopman93
good for salvage, thye have platinum in them
ORIGINAL: MustangGuy93
Why do you keep the cats?
ORIGINAL: 92lxsleeper
and when you take the cat off, you can give it to me if you don't want it... i collect catalytic converters.... every car ive had, thats my first mod, (pull off the cats)
and when you take the cat off, you can give it to me if you don't want it... i collect catalytic converters.... every car ive had, thats my first mod, (pull off the cats)
11-23-2007, 01:45 PM
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RE: Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
you don't. you send it to some jackass company in california and they cut you a check. actually a lot of cat theft has been going on with imports and such in cali because the scrap prices for their converters are so high. i think import cats can go for a hundred or two. the average american cat is like 20-50.
11-24-2007, 10:21 AM
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RE: Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
slight word of caution, I'm sure that burning fiberglass has to be some sort of cancer causer simply because of just putting fiberglass in my attic requires masks...not that I'm a doctor or anything, but I do play one on tv...J/K
11-24-2007, 10:32 AM
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RE: Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
not to sound like a hippy-tree hugger even though trees have feelings too (I love how they scream when I fire up the chain saw),but a proper high flow cat is environmentally safe, keeps you legal at the sniffers, all the states are going to have emission laws eventually. I also saw for myself on the dyno that a non-clogged"monolith" style cat cost the engine one horsepower and increased the torque by 2 ft lbs, and that was above a straight pipe exhaust system! The dyno doesn't lie.
11-24-2007, 10:43 AM
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RE: Muffler guy stopped being a D$%&!!
I was just thinking...the cats on your car are probably the original, and any cats over 5 years are going to have clogging and failure due to use...I would replace the restrictive crap the factory installed 10+ years ago with a new set up. We never dyno'd it, but I know when I replaced the original H-pipe on my old '87 mustang notch 302 with a new X-pipe with cats I felt a huge improvement in power, throttle response and my fuel economy improved by 3 mpg. and really that motor was stock except for a set of 351 heads from arizona speed and marine w/full aluminum roller rockers.