fine for running catless
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fine for running catless
does any one know what the maximum fine is for running catless??? ive talked to a variety of people about it and i get a lot of different answers.
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i believe it is a fix it ticket and you get sent to the Ref....
I had a TX-s Stealth back with a high flow cat in it but you must take out the stock DP and Up pipe to get good gains especially if you are goin get a bigger turbo..
I had a TX-s Stealth back with a high flow cat in it but you must take out the stock DP and Up pipe to get good gains especially if you are goin get a bigger turbo..
Originally posted by dz
Let me guess, you live in Berkeley...
I had a pair of aftermarket converters on my Mustang (the car had 6 stock). The aftermarket cats burned cleaner than the stock cats did but I still got busted for running them. I was faced with a choice:
Pay a $30,000 fine (5K for each converter removed)
-or-
Go to a referee every year for the next 5 years to have my car gone over with a fine toothed comb
I picked #2
Let me guess, you live in Berkeley...
I had a pair of aftermarket converters on my Mustang (the car had 6 stock). The aftermarket cats burned cleaner than the stock cats did but I still got busted for running them. I was faced with a choice:
Pay a $30,000 fine (5K for each converter removed)
-or-
Go to a referee every year for the next 5 years to have my car gone over with a fine toothed comb
I picked #2
my comment was if you do an exhaust, have a cat. it's better for the environment and potentially your wallet... for what 10 more HP.
so why did you run cats on the rustang? probably for the same reasons that I stated. do you live in berkeley? I just don't want the BA to turn into LA.
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Originally posted by En3D
It sounds like the berkeley comment was toward tree hugging hippies who care about the planet. sooner or later we all or our children will pay for the environment pollution.
my comment was if you do an exhaust, have a cat. it's better for the environment and potentially your wallet... for what 10 more HP.
so why did you run cats on the rustang? probably for the same reasons that I stated. do you live in berkeley? I just don't want the BA to turn into LA.
It sounds like the berkeley comment was toward tree hugging hippies who care about the planet. sooner or later we all or our children will pay for the environment pollution.
my comment was if you do an exhaust, have a cat. it's better for the environment and potentially your wallet... for what 10 more HP.
so why did you run cats on the rustang? probably for the same reasons that I stated. do you live in berkeley? I just don't want the BA to turn into LA.
Maybe you didn’t see the part where Dan said he car burned cleaner using aftermarket cats instead of the 6 factory ones, but still got a fine for it
and if you were really upset about the state of our environment, you would be more upset about big businesses around the state that are allowed to dump 10x more pollutants into the air because CARB made a deal with the EPA. Less pollution from the cars and the EPA let them allow factories and refineries to pollute more then ever before.
yay for caring about our environment
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i'm just gonna see how much hp can be squeezed out of the stock DP. catless is not an option for me, and i really have second thoughts about running an aftermarket cat.
does anyone know the law on when it is legal to replace a OEM cat with an aftermarket? isn't it 60k miles?
does anyone know the law on when it is legal to replace a OEM cat with an aftermarket? isn't it 60k miles?