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Apr 21, 2007 | 02:51 PM

Mustangmadness97

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Help with Cats

I have a 1997 mustang cobra with no cats and someone was telling me that the obd1 cats would work fine on the cobra i was wondering if this was true or if i had to buy the obd2 cats???

Apr 22, 2007 | 05:31 PM

03gtmustang

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Never heard them called obd1 and obd2 cats, is there a difference?

Apr 22, 2007 | 07:07 PM

SxyXc

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idk, but i know the cats that my 97 had stock are honeycomb inside. soo any with the honeycomb will work fine from what i have read.. but i have no idea bout taht ob1 and ob2 called cats

Apr 22, 2007 | 07:08 PM

venom

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Never heard that cats are made any diff dont they all have honeycomb.

Apr 22, 2007 | 08:11 PM

spike_africa

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Your car doesnt have to have cats to run. obd1 and obd2 are different types of ecu setups.

Apr 22, 2007 | 08:14 PM

venom

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Yes but what does it have to do with cats

Apr 22, 2007 | 09:31 PM

spike_africa

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Originally Posted by venom

Yes but what does it have to do with cats

Nothing at all he was given bad info.

Apr 23, 2007 | 05:04 AM

bassman97

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Magnaflow lists their cats under pre-OBDII, OBDII, and CARB OBDII. He may be refering to that. Eitherway, as long as it's the 3-way design, you're good.