Adding cat to custom exhaust, looking for advice about placement
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Adding cat to custom exhaust, looking for advice about placement
I bought the car with a full-back 3" exhaust which had only two resonators in it. I've since replaced one of them with a magna flow straight through muffler, which did tone the sound down somewhat. Now I need to add a cat to pass md state inspection, and I'm left wondering if I should just replace the other resonator with the cat, or add it in addition to the resonator. If I added it, it would have to go behind the resonato, since it's currently sitting just behind the flex pipe that's behind the down pipe, so there's really no other way to go but back. Would this be a problem - as in, would it make the cat less effective for some reason?
Any advice is appreciated.
Any advice is appreciated.
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Nah, the guy caught the fact that it was a resonator and that I didn't have a cat. The safety inspection is really tough - it's at least 100 points. The check for the cat during this inspection is for "presence and function", but they don't do the sniff test until the emissions. I know, it makes no sense. In 3 more years I'll be able to qualify for classic car tags though, which is no inspections ever.
Do you think there's a chance that I'll fail the emissions even with the cat on board? It seems like an easy test now since they removed all of the dynos from the emissions facility. They essentially just get in the car and rev it a little bit without loading it up. I figure the car can't be making that much exhaust gas under that condition... Guess they figure it's not worth keeping the dynos when I'm sure at least 95% of their traffic is OBDII port scan only (MY 96+).
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