Taking ALL 4 cats off!

[woaface]

I think it's a really good idea...I mean, I've got some rusty ass headers, 4...FOUR catalytic converters (2 pre-cats) and a Y pipe to one big ol' beyond restrictive muffler...

So according to the EPA, it wouldn't be a bad idea at all (Hey, might as well give the NY Times credit for SOMETHING!)

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question66.h tm&url=http://www.junkscience.com/news2/catalyt.htm

[jgc61sr2002]

James - Removing the cats in New York would be a violation and your car would fail the yearly inspection. Probably the same in most states.

[rookie1]

I think removing the cats in any state is against the law.

James, I continue to be impressed by the wide range and scope of reading materials you expose yourself to. It is very uncommon in myexperience with people your age. You should check out junkscience.com, it will give you plenty of things to argue with your teachers about. Just an example:

Global Warming
Richard Alley, Penn State University Glaciologist

Richard Alley discovered something 10 years ago that made him worry the Earth's climate could suddenly shift, and it changed his life. It was a two-mile long ice core, pulled up from the center of Greenland. It contained bubbles of air that reveal what the Earth's atmosphere was like over a period of 100,000 years. The ice core showed that at one point, in as little as 10 years, the global climate had drastically changed. Soon after that discovery, climate change became a personal crusade for Alley.

John Christy, University of Alabama Climatologist

Last fall, the Senate debated a bill that would have created regulations to combat global warming. Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK] led the opposition, and went so far as to call global warming a hoax. He based that statement, in part, on the work of John Christy, a professor and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Christy is a respected climatologist, but he's also a maverick who argues that global warming isn't a problem worth worrying about. His major contribution has been to analyze millions of measurements from weather satellites, looking for a global temperature trend. He's found almost no sign of global warming in the satellite data, and is confident that forecasts of warming up to 10 degrees in the next century are wrong.

[woaface]

John Christy, University of Alabama Climatologist

Last fall, the Senate debated a bill that would have created regulations to combat global warming. Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK] led the opposition, and went so far as to call global warming a hoax. He based that statement, in part, on the work of John Christy, a professor and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Christy is a respected climatologist, but he's also a maverick who argues that global warming isn't a problem worth worrying about. His major contribution has been to analyze millions of measurements from weather satellites, looking for a global temperature trend. He's found almost no sign of global warming in the satellite data, and is confident that forecasts of warming up to 10 degrees in the next century are wrong.
Thanks Rookie...I'm more inclined to believe Mr. Christy...:up:

[Dr Caleb]

I'm more inclined to believe Mr. Christy...:up:

After all, he makes such good cookies . . .

[TripleTransAm]

James - Removing the cats in New York would be a violation and your car would fail the yearly inspection. Probably the same in most states.

He'll also get a lovely tan from the incessant Check Engine light on his dash due to the missing cats.

enjoy...

[woaface]

He'll also get a lovely tan from the incessant Check Engine light on his dash due to the missing cats.

enjoy...
I wouldn't actually take them off without a PCM retune and have it profesionally done...so...

never...