Ok I now understand I need to put cats as close to engine as possible for them to be efficient at what they are designed to do.
I need to look under my car to see what space I have to splice in cats up front. I'm running an X pipe now, not an H. The X is just aft of the bell housing so it's closer to the front than some of the other aftermarket X and H pipes I see online now. I like the current X I have because just aft of the X is my wideband sensor. I like it there since it will sample a mixture of both engine banks. I dont want to change to a pipe that puts an X or H aft of the wideband sensor.