Hi,
I'm having some noise in the rear area of my exhaust and was wondering if the thing closer to the engine from the muffler was a catalytic converter or just a resonator? Can it be deleted and simply replaced with straight pipe? Would this have legal ramifications, and would it effect performance?
Thanks
N/A exhaust resonator/cat question
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N/A exhaust resonator/cat question
1993 Legacy L AWD 5-sp wagon
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I'm guessing your talking about the cat. You certainly can replace it with a straight pipe, but it most likely will not pass emissions. It would be less restrictive, and probably a bit louder. The effect on performance probably wouldnt be noticable. I have 3" TBE, with 1 resonator, but I don't have to pass emissions, so its great for me
1991 Subaru Legacy SS 5MT: Revtronix Stage 2 Set-up with a few other "tasteful" mods :D
Yes there are two cats on the non-turbo cars
Josh
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This guy http://www.mufflerexpress.com/ made me a stainless mid-pipe without a cat (put a resonator in place) for ~$80. John is his name, and he's a hell of a nice guy. He also made me the stainless intermediate pipe, and I'm going to have him make me the tailpipe to which i will weld my muffler of choice (all stainless). I told him that people on the board would probably be interested (especially at that price for mandrel-bent stainless) and he said he'd definitely make more for whoever gets in touch. His pipes were direct fit with my system, very high quality OEM duplicates, but you can get larger pipe too. If anyone is interested, email him (mufflerexpress@bellnet.ca) and tell him I sent you from the boards, he says "he'll help out."
I was about to write a review on them anyhow.
I was about to write a review on them anyhow.
Cheers,
morgan
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