What is the cheapest/best way to remove the cats from my 96 z28?

 

The 96 has two cats, One on the passenger side and one on the drivers side. The passenger side is like a normal cat right before the Y pipe.
The drivers side, however, is a funny lookin thing that comes right off of the drivers side manifold and crosses over to the Y

What else do you plan to do with the exhaust? Because taking it all apart just to remove the cats would be a waste of time

 

You could just hollow them out, or have test pipes welded in.

 

i plan to leave the stock exhaust manifold on but do a magnaflow cat back