At 08:44 PM 2/15/99 -0600, you wrote:
>My understanding is this:
>
>Cats only work when they have warmed up to operating temperature, which is
>very hot. They are warmed up via exhaust gases flowing thru them. If you
>split the exhaust gases to 2 different cats, they will warm up much slower
>and you'll be spewing emissions into the air for a much longer period of
>time. Hence, the regs on dual cats.
>
>Now, if someone could 'invent' a pre-heated catalytic converter and get it
>EPA-approved, you could have dual cats AND be environmentally cleaner than
>the original....... :^)
I believe there are cars and trucks that have dual exhausts though.
I'm not sure, but I think the Mustang has a dual exhaust. When I was
at Jason & Norah's house, they had a model of a Ram and it had a
dual exhaust with dual cats. (Granted, that doesn't prove anything,
but usually companies model these things after a real vehicle...)
Does the V10 have a dual exhaust?
-Jon-
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