Re: cutting cat - help!

From: Michael Vetere (antonio@montana.com)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 21:28:32 EDT


i cut the cat off my dak, and i lost quite a bit in the low end.
it bogs bad until about 2200 rpms then it picks up.
i honestly dont think it helped anything.
in my cherokee it worsend the fuel economy.

mike

DodgeKota4x4gurl@aol.com wrote:

> >From what I have heard, about my 318, I don't know if that's what you have or
> not, I wanted to cut mine off just because I thought it would give me more
> power with less obsticles for the exhaust to go through, so it could flow out
> more freely. The muffler shop I am going to says they have done a lot of Daks
> (one of which the guy works for the shop) they said if you cut off the cats
> on them, it runs like dookey? That's just what they told me, I don't know of
> anything for certain, but he said something to the effect of they would run
> all the time like they do when they first start up in the morning? That would
> not be a prob for me! it always runs good, it's a DODGE! ;o) He said these
> motors need the back pressure of the cat. My question, there's nothing else
> we could put under there??? FWIW
>
> Ryan 95 318 4x4 Sporr



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