I have a 94 T/A with Mac midlength headers, ORY, and Magnaflow exhaust. Do you guys think I should cut out my cat? What will I gain or lose from doing this, performance and sound wise? Just wondering because I heard that the car will backfire alot if I do cut it out. Also what is the cat replaced with? Do they just weld in a piece of piping or what?

 

"midlength headers, ORY"

that means you already don't have the cats...

the car will be louder, possibly pop a little more when you let off the gas at higher rpms...

but i think it's worth it

 

I bought the car in April from a guy in Tennessee so he had to move the cat further back to pass emissions

 

From a performance standpoint, you wont gain that much power by removing the cat.

 

Removing the cat made my car sound raspier, on top of being louder. Makes more of a whooshing sound, too

 

remove it.

 

You can take the cat off, hollow it out, and put it back on. So, you pass all visual inspections. It works, cause that's how mine is.

Zach

 

I say get new ones.. I like clean air.

 

Cats get hot...hot enough to start fires in grass (or anything else) tall enough to touch the bottom of the car. Fires cause LOT of air pollution...cut the cats off to save the environment!!!

Zach

 

i'm gonna cut it out. thanks guys

 

Im gonna run out and cut that cat out right now..... CAPTAIN PLANET!

 

LOL

 

Would be a good idea to keep them in your garage.. so if you ever end up selling it, you can put them back on.. unless you find a buyer that doesn't mind it being non emissions compliant.

 

There are several things that stop me from removing mine.


1) car is harder to sell if it is not compliant.

2) car has a lower value if it is hard to sell.

3) removing a functional cat does not help performance much.

4) A holow cat make a strange sound that I dislike.