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50DADDY
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My car just passed with the front two cats hollowed out.Its a stock 4 cat h-pipe with 10 year old factory cats.And it was well within spec too.
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Most cars pass with catted midpipes. Ive known of quite a bit of people to pass with longtubes and cats too.(Obviously) over looking a visual inspection

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Over-engineering then i guess.

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My Explorer had 2 cats and one was bad, it always passed smog.

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96-98 GT's come with a 6 cat h-pipe.... All bad, if you want to replace.
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My tacoma passes with a bad cat, and my old ws6 passed with longs tubes and hiflow cats.

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My car passes with no cats, then passes like a prius would with cats. [patriot]

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quote:
Originally posted by NEIGHT:
My car passes with no cats, then passes like a prius would with cats. [patriot]

Damn its probably slow as fuck then! Lol [Wink]
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quote:
Originally posted by RONIN:
96-98 GT's come with a 6 cat h-pipe.... All bad, if you want to replace.

my 96 passed several times with 2 hiflow catted x-pipe.
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quote:
Originally posted by NEIGHT:
My car passes with no cats, then passes like a prius would with cats. [patriot]

Stop it

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Couldn't pass with catted x pipe. Stock heads, cams, and headers on 04 Cobra.
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quote:
Originally posted by xchpstang:
Couldn't pass with catted x pipe. Stock heads, cams, and headers on 04 Cobra.

Couldn't pass bc of asshole tech? Or...?

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Reason is the newer cars aren't allowed the pollution percentages that the older cars emit. Therefore they load them up with 4-6 cats to get them to pass the allowed emmisions...

[ February 16, 2012, 05:47 AM: Message edited by: HaulinAss Motorsports ]

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