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Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 12:01 AM

screw you rich boy!

Brando56894 · 11-15-2005, 02:21 AM

dont be mad cuz i saved up money from stuff

Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 02:52 AM

yea, calling up mommy and saying "put more money in the bank for my car?" is really saving up, bucko :finger:

JL8Jeff · 11-15-2005, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER

ditching the cat is worth a bunch of power, my 91RS picked up more than a full mph of trap speed with no other tuning, little g picked up about 2mph of trap speed with appropriate tuning. that is way more than 3hp.

also, the fine in new jersey for failure to maintain your vehicle is $175, and i have never in my life heard of anyone getting it for ditching their cat.
the $10k fine everyoen always talks about is a federal highway fine for illegally disposal or handling of hazardous materials, which if they see teh trash bag of cat guts you can get nailed with, otherwise it is just a failure to properly maintain.

Well, a high flow cat won't cost you more than 3-5 hp so if you picked up that much then you had some serious previous tuning and maintenance issues that started killing that cat way too soon. I've got some articles showing that dual cats only slowed an 11 second car down .1 in the 1/4 mile. When they compared cats vs mufflers, the mufflers slowed it down by .4 compared to the cats .1 so cats are not restrictive like all you guys like to think they are. Now if you have a lousy factory cat(like the 1990 454SS pickup) then replacing it with a better flowing cat is a no brainer. Now if you leaned your car out too much with tuning then you probably damaged the cat from excessively high exhaust temps.

Tru2Chevy · 11-15-2005, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Ian

Bills camaro by itself was louder than all those combined!

Nope....Bill's Camaro was bad-ass alright, but it didn't compare to Randy and Matt together.

- Justin

Brando56894 · 11-15-2005, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Savage_Messiah

yea, calling up mommy and saying "put more money in the bank for my car?" is really saving up, bucko :finger:

i saved money previously *******

foff667 · 11-15-2005, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Tru2Chevy

Nope....Bill's Camaro was bad-ass alright, but it didn't compare to Randy and Matt together.

- Justin

yeah i didnt like the ear piercing sound coming from the exhaust at even part throttle...I liked my idle more then either of their cars though.

slasherbarb · 11-15-2005, 12:38 PM

kasey and brandon...if you need help with installing anything this weekend give me a call...im free sat morning...maybe you guys can help with the install of my new "goodie"..

Brando56894 · 11-15-2005, 03:07 PM

sounds good. could we do it at your place instead? i dont really think my cars up to driving to kaseys house at the moment

Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 06:20 PM

yea your car is a POS

John you have a lto of tools?

Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER

ditching the cat is worth a bunch of power, my 91RS picked up more than a full mph of trap speed with no other tuning, little g picked up about 2mph of trap speed with appropriate tuning. that is way more than 3hp.

also, the fine in new jersey for failure to maintain your vehicle is $175, and i have never in my life heard of anyone getting it for ditching their cat.
the $10k fine everyoen always talks about is a federal highway fine for illegally disposal or handling of hazardous materials, which if they see teh trash bag of cat guts you can get nailed with, otherwise it is just a failure to properly maintain.

I have a friend who is an EMT in my town, he knows some of the cops who have deleted their cats (mustangs), gonna have him get their word on it

Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 06:23 PM

actually he said "most cops most cops don't know what a cat is, and if they do, they prob work on their owns cars s o won't give a ****" and that they wouldn't check for one anyway... maybe it's just my town i dunno

slasherbarb · 11-15-2005, 07:35 PM

i dont have a huge selection of tools...but definately enough to install a cat/bullet muffler...but if ur talking about a cutter and that stuff...that i dont have...plus working by my house isnt really to possible...dont really have a whole lot of room by me...plus if i had an air compressor, things could go a lot easier...i think we should work by kaseys...plus brandon i can drive around in ur car for a bit to see what is really wrong with it...

Brando56894 · 11-15-2005, 07:39 PM

aight thats fine, as long as it doesnt blow up by then

i was drivin kasey around to show him what it was doin and when we got finished it was really bad.... he followed my to lot 6 (we were parked in lot 2) and it was shuddering like crazy and i was only doin 30

i hope its not something really bad..... if it is that really sucks, but atleast i have the money for it.

slasherbarb · 11-15-2005, 08:06 PM

yeah...now does anyone have a harmonic balancer puller so i can pull my harmonic balancer off...plus, kasey, u good at belts...i might change my belt around and could definately use help with it...

Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 08:34 PM

I can give it a shot as long as it's not me, tim and justin in teh dark in tim's driveway... we were teh sux0rs at belts that night

working at my house is cool but ive also got no sawzall

Brando56894 · 11-15-2005, 09:03 PM

so how are we supposed to get my cat off?

slasherbarb · 11-15-2005, 09:58 PM

i might be able to get a sawzall...ill ask my friend dave if i can borrow his...but the belt shouldnt be too hard to do...just running it will be a bitch since lt1=no room...and dont start with the v6=greater than all crap...

12secondv6 · 11-15-2005, 10:01 PM

Why not dyno before mod... then after... and ONLY tune to delete O2 codes and see what the gains are?

I just can't see that my car would benifit from no cat (bullet muffler) from a high flow cat.

My car would be ongodly loud/ ricerish

Brando56894 · 11-15-2005, 10:30 PM

thats what im planning on doing james, well about that, i was plannin on running it w/stock exhaust, then with a magnaflow, then with my car tuned for it. and thanks for tryin john, i could possibly borrow one of kaseys cats (u said u have 2 right?) cuz i wanted to see how much all that made a difference...

Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 10:33 PM

I have my car tuned for the bullet muffler and aisde from it being quicker (I have no before/after dynos or times from that mod only, sorry), I get better gas milage with the bullet on than the cat

Savage_Messiah · 11-15-2005, 10:34 PM

I have 2 stock LS1 cats at my house, just need to get one off of the y-pipe and... adapt it to your car

or... buy that bullet now and get it shipped my my house

Brando56894 · 11-16-2005, 05:19 PM

im gonna order it tonight hopefully it'll get there in time...

Savage_Messiah · 11-16-2005, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by 12secondv6

Why not dyno before mod... then after... and ONLY tune to delete O2 codes and see what the gains are?

I just can't see that my car would benifit from no cat (bullet muffler) from a high flow cat.

My car would be ongodly loud/ ricerish

I just can't see that my car would benefit from removing the windshield wipers.

Brando56894 · 11-16-2005, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Savage_Messiah

I just can't see that my car would benefit from removing the windshield wipers.

huh?