CATS
 

I just wanna know how to take out my catalytic converter to make my exhaust sound louder..is it bad
for my car or it wont do anythin..

what exhaust setup do you have?

you will have to replace the section of pipe where your cat/cats is/are with regular pipe.

well you live in a state that is about as strict as it gets. I'm guessing you already did research and know that cats are for emissions and your car is going to fail unless you have some connections but if your ok with that either get a new exhaust setup or cut them out like zig said and fill them with reg piping

i have a V6..so i went dual exhaust H pipe..40 series flows..and SS crome tips 3.5

nice choice.

did u get rid of ur cats yet or no?

Bah! Balderdash!

all you gotta do is pull off the mid pipe, take a long tire iron and start jamming it down into the cat, keep doing this untill you break up the catalyst.

easy!

lol

that is 100% true.

but I stopped thinking that way a long time ago, kinda comes along with my profession.

its also 100% illegal. lol.

i remember sitting behind my wifes Kia in a safeway parking lot next to a very busy main road with a tire iron coring out her plugged cats thinking, crap i hope no cop sees me doing this shit.

lol..that is some shit..but il try that one time..and im thinkin to get headers too..so wat kind should i get..long tubes or the short ones

hang on hang on.......i kinda wanna do this now :P

how much force am i expectin to use? anything hp wise?

kinda sounds like a ricer thing though. had a friend drill holes into his muffler on his 92 civic cuz he didnt wanna spend any more money on a winter beater :P

drillin holes??LOL waht does that do to the sound or performance..wahta hekk lol

my serious rec is just to buy a offroad midpipe, first off if you ever need to put the cats back on, cats run several hundo each, a midpipe would be cheaper in the long run.

if you DO do it, basically the catalyst is a super small honeycomb type configuration. you really have to bash the hell out of it untill you get a hole all the way through, then after thart yer just breaking up the sides untill you clear everything out.

i wouldnt expect much HP. also, your exhaust will get to be a bit more raspy, and you will fail emissions next time you go

frea - trust me, he really riced it out...how can you go wrong with a 200 dollar car.

it did actully make a difference in the sound. didnt notice shit for hp though

jack- yea i dun think ide do that in the long run either. i broke one of my flanges right behind the cat and it just sounded wierd. kept back-firing and im not much for the o/r style. i like loud....but out the back where i can piss other people off and me, not so much :P

not in my state.