hi guys just like to know how i can remove the cat and if it will release any more bhp i live in mexico city so im not too bothered about staying emmissions legal as with a few pesos the police gezzer will be happily on his way.lol.
i have heard that i can simply punch hole in it,???????
But wont the exhuast gases simply leave through there?
or what would you recommend? please advise.
p.s its a 94 gt mustang 5.0 ho?? lump..
seems to me 0 miles to the gallon.lol ahh well thanx for the help.
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That's the illusion removing your cat will do. It will ADD hp, but it will also move the HP up the RPM Range and make it seem as if your TQ has lessened.
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[QUOTE=Dan02GT]That's the illusion removing your cat will do. It will ADD hp, but it will also move the HP up the RPM Range and make it seem as if your TQ has lessened.[/QUOTE]
Hey Dan, when you say, "make it seem as if your TQ has lessened," do you mean that it doesn't kill your bottom end? I'm thinking of the Off road X with straight through mufflers, but I'm also getting the 4.10's.
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I think I got my o/r h pipe for like 109 from a mail order catalog. Or u could go the ghetto route like my buddy did take yours off and get a metal rod and punch out all the catalytic converter guts. and put it back on. He still got the o/r h-pipe benefits.
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It doesn't kill your bottom end at all.
It adds much more HP than it does TQ, yet it still adds quite a bit of TQ...just the difference is so large people think since their top-end is pulling that much harder...that their bottom-end has vanished.
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[QUOTE=Dan02GT]
It doesn't kill your bottom end at all.
It adds much more HP than it does TQ, yet it still adds quite a bit of TQ...just the difference is so large people think since their top-end is pulling that much harder...that their bottom-end has vanished.
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well when i removed mine...i just took the whole thing out so basicly it was nothing beyond the headers...and low end power sucked! this was on a ford probe gt 2.5 V6
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well when i removed mine...i just took the whole thing out so basicly it was nothing beyond the headers...and low end power sucked! this was on a ford probe gt 2.5 V6[/QUOTE]
Heh, that's why! A V8 has 2 more cylinder and far more cubes. Can't compare modifications between 2 different motors like that...Smaller motors like that actually depend on backpressure getting them off the line. This doesn't apply to V8's at ALL unless you virtually run open HEADS. When you effect exhaust velocity...that's when you've removed too much backpressure from a V8, and the only way to do such on a V8 would be running open heads like I said above ;)
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