can taking off your cat. converter free up some hp ?
 

i didnt believe it worked but not too long ago i took mine off and replaced it with a piece of straight pipe and my car is faster and feels like it has more power and it make my exhaust have a nice deep tone . is it just me or does it work ?

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Um yes it works great but you really need some backpressure unless your turbo which i doubt so it might have a lil more topend but you lost torque. Ricer ;D

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not turbo yet but i have plenty of torque i can do way better burnouts than before i took it off, am not a ricer >:(

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you are a ricer

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This will keep you out of trouble and is cheaper then a random tech cat

http://store.summitracing.com/partde...art=CTO%2D2906


Your Mission: Install this piece yourself by welding it in and you shall loose your Ricer tag

Re:can taking off your cat. converter free up some hp ?
 

i was asking a serious question not trying to be ricey

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This comment ruined it for you riceboy:



Your such a ricer that you can't even tell that your own comments are ricey. Put back your bag-o-rice avatar, it fit you much better

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I took off my cat and now 2nd gear goes to 65mph. Before it only went to 59mph. Since removing the cat my floormats seem to repel dirt a lot more too. Oh yeah and my NA honda has a lot of torque.

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And I gave you a serious answer for once, also not trying to be ricey

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im cool with your answer jay but not with everyone else

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I thought you agreed to stop being a dipshit?

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you guys flame the ---- out this guy...its great

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I took mine cat off and ran a 16.1, it doesn't work. I blame my cat.

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holy ----, this guys totally right, i took off my cat and dynoed my car and it put down almost 200 hp on my N/A accord. i couldn't keep my head of my headrest ;)

black_del_slo, i think you deserve to be flamed for this one, the gains are only minimal in the top end

Re:can taking off your cat. converter free up some hp ?
 

well actually if your cat is plugged casuse its old, then removing it or gutting it can help alot.

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the only reason i see to take it off is to reduce turbo lag ;). besides that it just makes your exhaust loud and gay, theres no point to it.

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yes, but removing it because you're a ricer, it does nothing

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i took it off cause it blocked up and would turn red after a while

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Final answer, it does give you a litle more, but not much. Now when you go turbo, you will already have taken it out, so good for you, Now you know there's a go turbo before 400 post rule here right?






















J/k it was suggested one time I think, but not real. Go turbo soon and you will prove your not a ricer.
David :) :)

Re:can taking off your cat. converter free up some hp ?
 

im all set to go turbo but mani i had was hitting my raditor so im selling it on egay and buying a log style mani ,if it gets here by friday im boosting on saturday

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and blowing up your motor by sunday

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come on give him a chance, yes his posts are a little nigel and ricey but, we'll see what happens. Now don't dissapoint me BLACK_DEL_SOL, I've been sort off defending you for the last few post, but now you are pushing it, go turbo and don't blow it up in a week.

Re:can taking off your cat. converter free up some hp ?
 

i've been defending him too, i'm just jokin around, hopefully he won't blow it, but you never know

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i thought i could put my first setup together on the car in one day. it didnt happen

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I know what you mean, I've been trying to help a guy here do a HMT, well he says his mechanic said it was ok and won't blow up. Running a small turbo, with no wastegate, he doesn't have the vacuum hose connected and no fuel management. I told him not to do it, but he keeps saying his mechanic said it was ok. I'm like fine.
The point is sometimes you try to help people and they don't listen to your advice. Same thing here, I hope you know enough to get your setup in correctly and you don't blow it up. ;) ;)

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yeah, black del sol seems like a smart guy, he just has different opinions about wahts ricey and wahts not.

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Do you mean no wastegate whatsoever? or its just not hooked up?

My first HMT took about a week. Second one took morning till night and about 20 trips to lowes and autozone. Well, didnt technically FINISH it. It was non-intercooled and open down-pipe

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i have fuel mangement and im running on 6 psi of boost and i have an ic and i even got 2 stage colder plugs and im going be very careful

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make us proud leo...........

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Keep in mind it is against EPA law to remove a catalytic converter. Its a hefty fine and can result in impounding your car if they found out you've done it. And when you go turbo (if you do) and run rich you can expect to be shooting a couple sparks out that exhaust. This will draw attention immediately to the police.

And don't believe anyone elses bullshit that its not illegal, go look it up on the EPA's website. It is a FEDERAL LAW (that means that entire country) to have a catalytic converter installed on your car.

However, that doesn't mean you can't hollow it out. :)

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Well he has a wastegate, internal, but not connected, so the turbo is giving him all the boost it can, whatever it is, i'm sure is enough to blow the engine. He told me he ran it once, when he went to second gear something happened that the car just turned off and didn't want to turn back on, he still doesn't know what, I have a feeling that he needs a new engine already. Oh he also doesn't have any check valves or anything to fool the map sensor.

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Wastegates are kinda overrated anyway. Real men control boost with the pedal on the right.

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----, if i took offf my cats on my rx7 i would sound like a ricer fo sho, and it would free up a bunch of hp.

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haha, kain your hilarious. get a turbo.

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not worth reading the whole thread, but stopped here and it was enough. That quote says it all.

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i need to get a shitload of stuff just to turbo my car. its better to buy a trubo engine, tranny, and driveshaft and call it a day.o and a new ecu. lol.

but really if you want a video of how and rx7 sounds with a free flowing exhaust, then im me on aim.

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Kain, don't try and say ---- to me about Rx-7s, I know what they are like, and I decided long ago that they are gay as ---- up your ass.

The Na motors are completely different then the Turbo II motors, so to turbo your NA car, you need the engine, all electronics, transmission, driveshaft, and while you are at it you might as well get the rear end forma turbo 2(unless you have a gXL, then you already have LSD) but yeah Rx-7 burn way too much gas, it just isn't worth it in my opinion to own a FC.

My buddy has a bridge ported Rx-7 with a huge snail, now that things sounds cool at idle(burns so much ------- gass too has 1600cc secondaries).

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hahha that was funny mang

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There must be another BLACK_DEL_SOL on here that you are talking about because theres no way you are talking about the person who started this any every other lame thread posted in the last month.

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The day BLACK_DEL_SOL builds his own turbo kit is the day I go to Canada and ass rape Spenser. He'll probably just post pics of somebody else's turbo kit and pass it off as his own like he did before with his car.