Well you should sleep peacefully then lolAll I wanna make sure is my no A/C having wanna be car falls in the "mega power" category?
Then I will sleep well at night.
Just by removing your AC automatically results in you having MEGA HP. However, in doing so, people will become very jealous.All I wanna make sure is my no A/C having wanna be car falls in the "mega power" category?
Then I will sleep well at night.
The car is so much nicer to drive now with all of that back in place....and guess what....it didn't make a lick of difference to the performance.....and I can actually drive around without getting a headache from the exhaust fumes now.
I believe the removal of smog equipment to be more about cleaning up the engine bay than the imaginary HP gains. Or something stops working and they don't want to pay to replace it so they remove it. I'll be removing my smug pump and tab/tad soon and going with an o/r h-pipe. I've never had an exhaust smell inside the car but maybe I'm just lucky and some aren't.
I don't know if it was you or @Noobz347 that made a comment a while back about this kind of stuff but the comment went something like "i've realized that I can have my A/C and still stomp the occasional car at a red light"
If it ain't a show car, leave it alone....because to the rest of us, it doesn't' look any cleaner, it stinks and it opens up the door for a host of problems.
Off to the Prius forums you goYa and dont worry about those kids you're raising, they dont need clean air and water, since all that pollution stuff is just pain to the awesome sound I need.
A 5.0 without cats may smell just a tad bit worse that one with them but not by much. My old 88' LX didn't stink while driving in the car or stopped in traffic. The only time I smelled it was while standing behind the car while it was idling which is obviously normal.
Also, what host of problems (mechanically) comes from removing cats and the smog pump system?
Why pray tell is that? I've been using them for almost two decades, on various Fox bodies.....no issues, what so ever. Probably the best "bang for the buck" mod out there for a Fox.Do. Not. Use. Underdrive. Pullies. On. A. Street. Car.
As someone who just swapped out his O/R X-pipe, for a catted H-pipe, I'll have to whole heartedly disagree with you on that one. The difference in air quality between cats and no cats is VAST!!! To say it isn't, is just down right ignorant and silly. And that's not just at idle either. My car reeked of exhaust fumes at all times with the O/R mid-pipe on and is now barely noticeable....and even then only during cold start.
Removing the smog equipment is going to set off alarm bells with the ECU. At the very least, you'll immediately get a 44/94 code that you can't get rid of unless you pony up several hundred dollars for an ECU tune. You've also now got to deal with items like the EGR, IAC, and, PCV sticking and failing randomly, because of the dirtier environment they're now in. Mileage goes down, emmisions go up, oil gets dirtier, more quickly, carbon deposits in combustion chambers and around valves increase....which causes pre-ignition and detonation issues that in turn increases combustion temps, necessitating the need to reduce ignition timing....harming performance.
And then we've got driveability. Your O2's will get dirtier, sooner, causing them to not only fail sooner, but to in the mean time slow in their reaction and performance, making their operation less consistent. Idle quality can suffer because the other sensors are now not operating at a consistent regularity and the computer starts not knowing which end is up? But don't worry.....this probably won't all happen at once. It'll likely plague with with random issues over time, so you're constantly trying to fix one problem after another with the car. It'll certainly keep you wrenching under the hood, if that's what you like to do.
But hey, at least you got rid of that nasty smog pump located at the very bottom of the engine, that's hidden by the other accessories and intake tubing that you barely see anyway, right.
Do yourself a favour....hide you wires and spiff up the rest of the engine compartment and leave your smog equipment right where it is. You want a little more performance, swap out the stock pullies for a set of underdrives and factory mid-pipe for an after market high flow catted unit and call it a day. You'll get more from that than you will bastardizing the stock smog system.
You answered the question there. And down here, the underdriven waterpump is a poor idea with 100°+ heat indexes.Why pray tell is that? I've been using them for almost two decades, on various Fox bodies.....no issues, what so ever. Probably the best "bang for the buck" mod out there for a Fox.
Of course, one of the first things I've ever done to all of my Fox bodies, was upgrade to a 3G alternator.....and then I overdrive them on top of that.
I would NOT recommend a person use underdrive pulleys without doing so....but then again, I would NOT recommend someone keep their stock alternator in place either. The stock 75A unit was less than adequate for a bone stock car. Own an A/C car, with full accessories and that little sucker doesn't know what to do with itself. Throw a half decent stereo system into the mix and they're done.