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'91CaliStang

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Yea Hi everyone..just wanted to know if you can take out your cats and how can you do that...i heard it will make your car a little louder
 

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Search the threads... and yeah, taking off the cats will make it louder and add some power... but if you live in CA, you might wanna find out your emissions standards before doing so.
 
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but how do you take them off
 

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you have to a) buy a new H/X pipe, or b) take ur H pipe off and smash the cats hollow with a hammer. The latter is cheaper. LOL.
 
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Yea pretty much what he said, take the stock h-pipe off and bash all the catalist out with a wooded pole and a hammer or something, just watch out for the 02 sensors if you have em. Or just pick up a cheap o/r h-pipe.

Edit: if you mean how do you take the whole pipe off it unbolts up near the headers/manifolds and down at the talipipes, it might be somewhat rusty could take a little work to get it knocked loose.
 
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is it easy to take the pipes off???
 

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4 bolts worth...but no not easy.

removing the header bolts are a ******

the flow tube bolts are ez....

if you do the whole exhaust at the same time it's ok , cuz you can cut the header bolts.

you will NEVER pass a cali smog w/ no cats...they will get you on the viz , then make you a "gross polluter"
 
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