I am thinking of punching out the converters on my 01 SS. Are there any downfalls to this that i might consider before hand. The reason is mainly for the sound. I have the factory SLP Center Flo exhaust that sounds great but its just too quiet. Thanks for the help.

 

you would be better off just getting off road pipes.

 

Are you offering to buy them for me? If I only had one Camaro intead of three a set of off road pipes would not be a problem. I am only looking for a cheap/easy way to wake up the exhaust tone a little untill I can afford to do more. Thanks for the reply.


69 Z10 Indy coupe
69 RS Z/28
01 SS

 

umm.. 3 camaros? dern man. and..um.. i dont think the '69's and sh*t even had cats man.. that stuff wasnt around. unless you rebuilt the car (or that exhaust) and you live in an auto hater state like cali

and i dont think he offered to buy 'em

/tek.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tekker
[B]umm.. 3 camaros? dern man. and..um.. i dont think the '69's and sh*t even had cats man.. that stuff wasnt around. unless you rebuilt the car (or that exhaust) and you live in an auto hater state like cali

and i dont think he offered to buy 'em


Tekker, If you read my post and had enuf sense to understand my question then you might have understood that I was asking that question about my 01 Camaro, not a 69. I could tell you just about anything you wanted to know about a 69, I have owned several over the years. I am new to the 4th gen Camaros, my question is simple and streight forward, I would appreciate an equal response.

 

I was thinking about doing the same thing on my '01 Z28. Not for the sound though. I think to just punch them, you mess up the smoothness of the flow a bit, not sure how this affect performance in this engine. I have heard of people punching them and then putting a piece of pipe through the cat. I know it will make the sound a little more raspy, depending on the exhaust.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jeremiah
[B]Jeremiah, watch your tone.. Geesh.. ya dont have to be an @ss.
anyways, I suggest getting the off road pipes just because why mod half @ssed when you can do it right? Want it louder? Get a cutout.
But really, you are new here and we dont usually badger people that offer help. Just be kewl..

 

for about eighty bucks...i had a shop replace a resonator with a straight pipe on my old car.

so i'm pretty sure for around a hundred dollars, which really isn't that much at all, you could prolly shop around and find a shop that will replace your cats with straight pipes....

...of course, one way or another, you're gonna have to get o2 simulators i believe...so you're gonna have to be spending some money no matter what.