to be legal or not to be legal

[tidnab]

Seems to me that you could rig a butterfly valve up and go through your cats or... NOT go through your cats... and you could flip the valve with a button... hence being street legal... ... it's the only reason I haven't put on long tubes and mid pipes on either of my trucks...

check this remote butterfly valve out.... anyone used anything like this??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAzo1F8Ck0&NR

 

[Django]

Cut 'em off and weld 'em back at inspection time.

Django

 

[Hamrhead]

I went with long tubes and high flow cats.

Fortunately in my State, if you keep the vehicle under 5,000 miles per year, you get a waiver for emissions.

Further, if you go over the 5,000 miles per year, in an OBDII vehicle (On-Board Diagnostics 2 - 1996 and up), all they do for the test is plug into the OBD port and check for trouble codes. No trouble codes = no problem ---> you pass.

 

[JRSVIPR]

Seems to me that you could rig a butterfly valve up and go through your cats or... NOT go through your cats... and you could flip the valve with a button... hence being street legal... ... it's the only reason I haven't put on long tubes and mid pipes on either of my trucks...

check this remote butterfly valve out.... anyone used anything like this??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAzo1F8Ck0&NR

Not positive, But i think Ferraritruck has something like that.

J.R.

 

[tidnab]

Cut 'em off and weld 'em back at inspection time.

Django

i'm more worried about the chp looking under and saying wtf ... maybe i'm just paranoid... but it's a big $$ ticket...

maybe high flows are the best bet.... you could do neat things with that butterfly valve though...

 

[Django]

i'm more worried about the chp looking under and saying wtf ... maybe i'm just paranoid... but it's a big $$ ticket...

maybe high flows are the best bet.... you could do neat things with that butterfly valve though...

I got a ticket last summer on the I-10 out near Palm Springs...... The CHP pulled in behind me in a white Camaro ...He said I was doing 90..... He didn't say a fkn thing about my exhaust system, noise or anything like it.......

We talked for about 20 minutes.... He cut my speed down to 80 mph, aplogized for giving me a ticket and drove away......

SD

 

[womsterr]

http://store.summitracing.com/egnsearch.asp?N=115+-101834

 

[RedRamRules]

FerrariT has his manual cutouts, sound cool when opened up. I dont think he noticed an improvement in power though :dontknow:

 

[Prof]

Cut 'em off and weld 'em back at inspection time.

Django

Silent D has the plan (my plan too). I may try just clamping in flow-thru's in place of the resonators, that are in front of the magna flow...then clamp the resonators back in after inspection.

 

[tidnab]

yeah, that sounds like a pretty good plan I was just thinking you could bypass all 4 cats (with a butterfly valve) but still have the cats in place lol...guess it would be a lot of extra pipes under the truck though but it'd be legal

 

[Prof]

No one buys this truck with the intent to be legal...

 

[includemeout]

i'm more worried about the chp looking under and saying wtf ... maybe i'm just paranoid... but it's a big $$ ticket...

maybe high flows are the best bet.... you could do neat things with that butterfly valve though...

Get another mid pipe assembly, cut the cats off as close to them as possible,
Knock out the guts, go to Harbor Frieght, buy a tubing expander, make the hole big enough for a section of exaust pipe to fit through, insert pipe, weld pipe at both ends of cat, grind off excess material for factory look , then weld them in place. Looks stock:rock: , but will be straight thru. Will need some Sims though.

 

[tidnab]

Get another mid pipe assembly, cut the cats off as close to them as possible,
Knock out the guts, go to Harbor Frieght, buy a tubing expander, make the hole big enough for a section of exaust pipe to fit through, insert pipe, weld pipe at both ends of cat, grind off excess material for factory look , then weld them in place. Looks stock:rock: , but will be straight thru. Will need some Sims though.

that sounds like a great idea except for one problem... i'd catch me my trucks and most likely the house on fire if you put me anywhere near a welder... i'd need a shop to do this for me... and as cool as DC performance is.. i doubt they'd do it although I can always ask I suppose ... hey maybe that sponsor down in vista.... that's not too far

 

[includemeout]

that sounds like a great idea except for one problem... i'd catch me my trucks and most likely the house on fire if you put me anywhere near a welder... i'd need a shop to do this for me... and as cool as DC performance is.. i doubt they'd do it although I can always ask I suppose ... hey maybe that sponsor down in vista.... that's not too far

Just tell the shop the Cat Mod is for an Off Road Application, He He, then have them installed at another muffler shop

 

[RAM82A1]

No one buys this truck with the intent to be legal...

You got that right.:rock: