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Old 04-28-2003, 02:23 PM
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gutting my pass side cat

i've been under my car checking things out and i dont see how im going to be able to guy my normal looking cat under the passanger side. the pipes bent too much to get anything in there. i have a 97 SS, i just want to gut them for a while untill i get my LT's and off road y-pipe. anyone have pictures ?
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Old 04-28-2003, 02:27 PM
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Why do you want to gut your cats?? I would suggest just waiting until you do headers. Because you won't see much of a gain, and the time that you would take to gut it is just too much considering the increase in power.
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Old 04-28-2003, 02:28 PM
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i just want the car louder for the time being. i'm not worried about performance.
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Old 04-28-2003, 02:59 PM
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You can't just gut your passenger side cat, well you can but there are two on a 97 (dual cat car) Gutting only one of them would likely cause more of a performace problem than a gain. You would have different backpressure on each side of the motor if you are leaving the driver side cat alone. I would just leave it alone until you do headers, it's a lot of work messing with the dual cat y and it's not worth any very minimal gain you may see from it.
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Old 04-28-2003, 03:44 PM
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dont worry, i was going to gut both, the drivers side one is easy to get to, its the other one i dont know if i can reach it without cutting it off first.
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Old 04-28-2003, 04:22 PM
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just pull the y pipe off.....if u wanna hear loud, roll around w/o a y pipe for a lil while, lol.
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