i think my cats are stopped up on my 02 pontiac trans am ls1, i called the muffler shop to see if they could just weld a pipe in for them, he said he could but my car wouldnt start or run. i think hes full of it , but maybe.hes right
i think my cats are stopped up on my 02 pontiac trans am ls1, i called the muffler shop to see if they could just weld a pipe in for them, he said he could but my car wouldnt start or run. i think hes full of it , but maybe.hes right
take em off gut em and put them back on then sell the stuff that you take out of them to a scrap metal dealer but you may have to get an downstream o2 sensor fooler
Shane
How do you fool the O2 sensor? I'm pretty interested.
I gutted the cats on my 99 explorer, everything seems normal no check engine or codes, but it worries me. I noticed my milage went low but the power increased.
I have to laugh, do you realize running a gutted cat is a federal offense. The muffler shop guy must be out of his mind or totally ignorant of the laws. A junk yard in Rhode Island had to pay something like $150,000 in fines for selling used cats and installing gutted cats. It's your life, but I don't think I'd be bragging about running gutted cats on a popular web site. On the bright side the feds don't really care much about what private individuals do. But they're really looking for businesses to make examples of.
I have to laugh, do you realize running a gutted cat is a federal offense. The muffler shop guy must be out of his mind or totally ignorant of the laws. A junk yard in Rhode Island had to pay something like $150,000 in fines for selling used cats and installing gutted cats.
I have to laugh, do you realize running a gutted cat is a federal offense. The muffler shop guy must be out of his mind or totally ignorant of the laws. A junk yard in Rhode Island had to pay something like $150,000 in fines for selling used cats and installing gutted cats. It's your life, but I don't think I'd be bragging about running gutted cats on a popular web site. On the bright side the feds don't really care much about what private individuals do. But they're really looking for businesses to make examples of.
Is it a federal offence if the guts blow out the pipe? it broke down and went out the back ......without proof that it didnt can anything be done.
Shane
Even if you never get caught gutting the cats your vehicle will most certainly fail an emissions test. Don't have a regular emissions test now? Who's to say you won't in 10 years, five years, next year?
KULTULZ has the best idea. If they're bad buy some good high flow cats from Summit or whoever sells them.
Gen 4 F-Body's were used in various classes/forms of racing, so there are a lot of exhaust system components available. Google LS1 or LT1 Off Road Pipe.
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