PERFORMANCE EXHAUST

[Valsheda]

I DONT KNOW IF ANYONE HAS THOUGHT ABOUT MAKING ENQUIRIES ABOUT PURCHASING ONE OF THESE ,

I WILL SAVE YOU ALOT OF PHONE CALLS ,

I RANG AROUND A FEW VARIOUS MANUFACTURERS A WHILE AGO , WHILST DREAMING ABOUT HAVING ONE ON MY VAN , THE ONLY ONE THAT WOULD SUPPLY AND FIT A STAINLESS SYSTEM WAS ,
POWERFLOW EXHAUSTS , HAVE A LOOK AT THEIR WEBSITE THEY HAVE LOCATOR MAP SO YOU CAN FIND A SUPPLIER NEAR YOU ,

THEY QUOTED ME £450 BIG ONES FOR A , FULL STAINLESS SYSTEM INCLUDING A CAT BYPASS PIPE WHICH CAN BE REMOVED WHEN YOU GO FOR MOT AND YOUR CHOICE OF TAIL PIPE FROM A LARGE RANGE .

[madmark]

mate if you are going to get a suystem dont do away with the cat you will have loads of hassle! the ecu will not like it and your management light will come on! cat back will be ok though!

[Valsheda]

MANY THANX FOR YOUR ADVISE , THERE IS NO WAY I COULD AFFORD TO DO THIS , BUT IT IS DEFINATLY GONNA BE DONE AT SOME POINT , BUT WHEN IT DOES I WILL NOT DROP THE CAT ,

CHEERS MATE

[FredTransit]

Cat? I know nothing of this, and prefer dogs................

[Valsheda]

CATALYTIC CONVERTER , ITS ON THE END OF MY DOWN PIPE ON THE EXHAUST ,

WHEN I HAD MY EXAUST FITTED LAST YEAR , THE GUY AT AT THE GARAGE LEANED OVER AND SAID PRAY YOU NEVER HAVE TO REPLACE THIS PART AS IT WILL COST YOU A FORTUNE , I DIDNT HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK HOW MUCH AS I HAD JUST PARTED WITH A COUPLE OF HUNDRED ON THE REST OF THE SYSTEM , IVE BEEN PRAYING EVER SINCE

[FredTransit]

CATALYTIC CONVERTER , ITS ON THE END OF MY DOWN PIPE ON THE EXHAUST ,

WHEN I HAD MY EXAUST FITTED LAST YEAR , THE GUY AT AT THE GARAGE LEANED OVER AND SAID PRAY YOU NEVER HAVE TO REPLACE THIS PART AS IT WILL COST YOU A FORTUNE , I DIDNT HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK HOW MUCH AS I HAD JUST PARTED WITH A COUPLE OF HUNDRED ON THE REST OF THE SYSTEM , IVE BEEN PRAYING EVER SINCE

Err, yes I do know what a catalytic converter is. Which is why I stay away from them

[Valsheda]

SOZ FRED , WASNT INSULTING YOUR INTELIGENCE THER MATE

[FredTransit]

SOZ FRED , WASNT INSULTING YOUR INTELIGENCE THER MATE

That's OK, I was just being sarcastic!

[Luke]

mate if you are going to get a suystem dont do away with the cat you will have loads of hassle! the ecu will not like it and your management light will come on! cat back will be ok though!

I wonder if you can do anything to the ecu to avoid this and run cat-free??

I once put a non cat exhaust on a cat sierra dohc and it ran fine just left the lambda sensor in the down pipe but there's no ecu light on a sierra (i know the sierras have slightly different injection system though )

im just wondering if you can fit a pre-cat sierra ecu and run cat free!!
or mabe it's a bit more complicated than that???


Just a thought

[trannytech]

if its a fairly early model shouldn't put ecu light on because lambda sensor only measures gases before cat so it womt know if its there or not as long as the sensors still fitted in to the exhaust system on the later models there are two sensors one before and one after the cat then it would cause a problem

[Valsheda]

HIYA ,

MY VANS YEAR IS 95 , AND I CAN ONLY SEE ONE SENSOR BEFORE THE CAT , NOT SURE IF THERE IS ANOTHER ONE AFTER ,

I WAS TALKING TO SOMEONE THE OTHER DAY ABOUT CAT/CONVERTORS AND THEY RECKONED THAT IF THE CAT BUSTS THAT IT WILL MUCK UP YOUR ENTIRE EXHAUST SYSTEM IS THIS TRUE

ONLY IF DO CHOOSE TO PUT AN EXPENSIVE EXHAUST ON AND THIS COULD HAPPEN , I WOULD BE VERY

[trannytech]

when they break up they normally block the exhaust

[trannytech]

wont be a sensor after the cat on yours only the much later ones have those but still need the cat to pass the mot emmisions

[Valsheda]

WHEN YOU SAY

when they break up they normally block the exhaust

DOES THIS GENERALY MEAN THE WORST

[trannytech]

normally a new catand sometimes a new exhaust but normally just a new cat