Hey guys.. I know removing the Catalytic Converters are illegal in Oz.. but with our cars can it pass the emission test if we are to remove it? Brad & Gly - has it been done?
I'm going to go for a high flow cat instead of removing it. I don't want to waste good money on fines when I could spend it on go fast bits Lee
It does make the car go a bit better, especially at the top end, I don't know what the laws are like over there, but here you can remove the cat without a problem
1) You will never ever pass an emissions test without it. 2) The fine is issued by Dept of Environment and Heritage, not Dept of Transport, and can be anything up to $10,000... 3) A decent high-flow cat would have a negligible effect on performance.
personally if we had emmissions laws over here, (which we dont, so i dont have one) i would fit a high perfromance cat.... the boys in the UK have had great success with them, better than the factory ones, and lower emmissions... cat's only have a limited life span anyway, probabilly should be replaced after 5 years? or 80000km i beleive?
There's no way in hell you'll pass an emissions test without it. If you could...they wouldn't fit them would they? lol Mitsu seem to fit decently flowing cats from the factory, their only issue is the diameter of them. But I was running the stock 2"(2.25"?) cat on my magna which had a 2.5" exhaust otherwise with custom extractors etc and there were no restriction issues that warranted getting a high flow. But, of course, the galants could be totally different.
Decating would also make the exhaust even louder, i know of a few guys that want to quiet down their exhausts, Droning is not cool kids. The only reason i would decat a car now is if i was going to track it
maybe you can find a second hand stock cat, gut it and put it on your car. when you get done by epa put your stock one back on , do the test and your home free.. if you get caught i didnt say anything.lol
Anthony - because there isn't an additional O2 sensor after the cat there will be minimal change either way due to the less restriction, not due to the ecu tuning it differently.
