Exhaust question?

2 questions.....


1.) Do you have emissions testing.

2.) Do you have "a hook-up"?

(only answer question #2 if you answered "yes" to question #1. If question #1 is a "no" , then go off road. If #1 is a "yes", and #2 is a "yes" .... go with an offraod pipe.)

I think you need to do some research mang....I'll try to help a little:

Oxygen sensors and catalytic converters are not the same thing and do not effect each other.

Your car only has two oxygen sensors.

Your car comes stock with four catalytic converters and two oxygen sensors, all housed in your stock H-pipe, also reffered to as a "mid-pipe".

Many aftermarket H-pipes are available. Most should accomodate your stock oxygen sensors. These H-pipes, as your stock one does also, have the catalytic converters built into them if so equipped.

Aftermarket H-pipes come in two forms- emissions legal H-pipes, which generally have 2 high flow catalytic converters, and off-road, which have no catalytic converters.

If you can, get a pipe with no catalytic converters- this will free up horsepower. If you have to (for emissions reasons), get a pipe with two high flow catalytic converters.

There are lots of different brands. I run a BBK off-road pipe. You can install it yourself if you are relatively car/tool savvy, if not, have the shop do it.

Good luck.

If I were you, I'd just get an aftermarket mid pipe. That way you can up the pipes to 2.5 inch (from the stock 2.25 pipes). And then all of your exhaust back from the headers will be new and 2.5 inch when you do that cat back you mentioned. And a new mid pipe will cost you about the same as buying cats and getting them welded in.

As far as deciding whether or not to do cats, it comes down to how loud you want your car to be. The cats muffle exhaust volume. So going with an off road mid pipe will make your car considerably louder, especially if you put some flowmasters on there. So if you want it really loud, then go no cats.

Of course off road mid pipes got their name for a reason. They are illegal on public roads in almost every state (though hardly anyone seems to get a ticket for running them).

if u have the cash, go with mac's pro-chamber..nice set up..
if ur starved for cash, get a upr o/r x pipe (which i'm running)..fitment is good and i would recommend it to anyone! just be prepared to let ur shop know to have it clamped up (since it doesn't come w. them) or else u'll have ur exhaust clunking when u go over bumps! lol

Also, F.Y.I., questions like this can be better "researched" if you search the forums on here using the "search" button above. Not that google is worse, but this will be faster to find exactly what you're looking for.