Your first mod was / will be...
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Car Info: Giant Bowery '84
Originally Posted by imprezilization
my first mod was the CAI, but i would definitely recommand turbo back + uppipe, get rid of the damn cats, it makes a difference. then wheels/tires, sway bars, spring/shocks,
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Originally Posted by TygerStile
I think most people throw their cats back on for emissions. I'm not sure what the passing rate is for a catless system, but I'm kinda curious as to how it would test...
dp w/ cat
exhaust w/cat
do up pipe have cats? do you need all those cats or is one cat good enough?
well you dont go under load when they test they just rev the car to 3k RPM so i think the down pipe with teh two will pass maybe the one in the up willpass, the sniffer that is. visually you will fail right away
Not sure how many you would actually need to pass. Yes, the uppipe has a cat, so stock... we have 3 total. I'm hoping that one(or maybe two) would be sufficient, but I'm not sure...
yeah they do. my freind does smog inspections and i asked how do they know what they are looking at. he said they have a book with pictures of all the cars and what to look for
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Originally Posted by sigma pi
yeah they do. my freind does smog inspections and i asked how do they know what they are looking at. he said they have a book with pictures of all the cars and what to look for


