Wake the dead
Tourer
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 456
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From: Upstate NY
Yeah, you can spend the big bucks to replace your headpipe with one that has no cat. Sure. No problem if you have the funds. Or just gut the mother f'er for next to nothing. All ya need is a cutting wheel and a welder.
Extreme HDF Member
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,045
Likes: 36
From: ST. Louis
I would remove the cat this way:
Cut like an inspection plate
cut, pry, grind it clean
weld inspection plate back on
This way the lenght and placement of the mounting points on the muffler doesn't change.
Because cutting it in half and welding back together could be off.
Cut like an inspection plate
cut, pry, grind it clean
weld inspection plate back on
This way the lenght and placement of the mounting points on the muffler doesn't change.
Because cutting it in half and welding back together could be off.
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: May 2008
Posts: 3,078
Likes: 0
From: Iowa
I would remove the cat this way:
Cut like an inspection plate
cut, pry, grind it clean
weld inspection plate back on
This way the lenght and placement of the mounting points on the muffler doesn't change.
Because cutting it in half and welding back together could be off.
Cut like an inspection plate
cut, pry, grind it clean
weld inspection plate back on
This way the lenght and placement of the mounting points on the muffler doesn't change.
Because cutting it in half and welding back together could be off.
Stellar HDF Member
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 2,906
Likes: 11
From: Grottoes Va.
What, no straight pipes? Heard a few touring scoots with drag pipes on them, you could hear them for blocks away with the windows rolled up. Drag pipes are the cheapest you can get and the LOUDEST things out there. To me they sound like crap but to each their own.
Outstanding HDF Member
Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,727
Likes: 6
I've never heard the knock offs and have only seen pictures of them. I know they have a rivet in the side I don't like the looks of. I just threw that out there in case you wanted to check it out, I cannot recommend them.
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 9,206
Likes: 372
From: Central Illinois, Between I-80 and I-74
Find a sports car "tuner" forum and find that fart can muffler the kids are running on their Japanese cars. Plenty loud and you can't get more obnoxious.
