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Postby Omegah » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:15 pm

Hey, i was wondering if taking the cat out will give performance increase with the standard exhaust?

and would 4A-GE spark plug leads fit on a 4A-FE.

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Postby LEV_101 » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:36 pm

Omegah wrote:Hey, i was wondering if taking the cat out will give performance increase with the standard exhaust?

and would 4A-GE spark plug leads fit on a 4A-FE.

Thanks!


did it on my levin 20v and felt the increase of power and NOISE !!!

integra b16a no increase of power felt again incrase of noise but not much.

and did it to my altezza 3sge and didnt felt any power gain but much deeper tone in noise.

but for the lead 4afe have square plugs and on the 20v 4age has circle one, not too sure about the blue or red tops.
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Postby AE82 FXGT » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:43 pm

cats are worth good money btw, exhaust shops usually pay to take them off your hands, not sure what the money like though
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Postby LEV_101 » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:45 pm

AE82 FXGT wrote:cats are worth good money btw, exhaust shops usually pay to take them off your hands, not sure what the money like though


i heard that there is a law taht you cant take it away ?
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Postby MR2SIK » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:47 pm

did you hear an aussie say it?
We have lax as emissions laws here.
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Hey, at least it sounds like a 3s.

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Postby LEV_101 » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:10 pm

MR2SIK wrote:did you hear an aussie say it?
We have lax as emissions laws here.


i when to a exhaust shop. they say i cant take it away :S WTF ...
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Postby EVL20V » Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:56 pm

hey, if u remove it from a 20v ae101 levin does it give that rank noise when u get to like 2500rpm? sounds like a tractor from 2500-3500? did it on b18c integra :lol: yuk
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Postby LEV_101 » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:19 am

EVL20V wrote:hey, if u remove it from a 20v ae101 levin does it give that rank noise when u get to like 2500rpm? sounds like a tractor from 2500-3500? did it on b18c integra :lol: yuk


farting noise actually :lol:
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Postby Bumpy » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:19 am

MR2SIK wrote:did you hear an aussie say it?
We have lax as emissions laws here.


lax as emissions laws???
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Postby tex » Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:40 am

They say you can't take the thing away cos they stock piling the suckers up the back and cashing them in. Yes they are worth a fair bit..
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Postby thegreatestben » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:00 am

There's a specialist wrecker round the corner from my work called the cat man. Pays about $60-70 for a cat. Pretty good. Everytime a car gets dumped down at my storage unit I'll pinch the Cat.

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Postby thaphatty » Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:28 pm

they've got some particularly expensive metal in them in small amounts

dont think it was platnum but cant rememer. probably not as platnum is stupidly expensive
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Postby Grrrrrrr! » Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:37 pm

thaphatty wrote:they've got some particularly expensive metal in them in small amounts

dont think it was platnum but cant rememer. probably not as platnum is stupidly expensive


Yep, it is platinum, and yes, it is stupidly expensive. So are some of the other metals used in cats like palladium and rhodium.

Current value of platinum is about US$42 per gram. So a few grams in each catalytic convertor soon adds up. And there is 2-8 grams in most cats from what i have read. So if you ever see a forty foot container of scrap cat convertors you're looking at quite a bit of bling ;)
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Postby Boosted_162 » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:00 am

Ive got my GT4's cat sitting on the driveway :o. What places take them?
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Postby sk1dlet » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:20 am

most scrap metal places
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Postby Emperor » Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:07 pm

True 8O I got ripped off then.. When I put a new system in my old Subie, they took the cat out and never payed me for it :cry:
When I was so young and naive.. lol
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