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Old Mar 21, 2015 | 03:24 PM
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Secondary cats gutted.

Due to UK MOT rulings that state secondary cats must be fitted I had my secondary cats gutted and then welded back up. I can safely say that digging out the internals is a bloody nightmare.

However the hard work is well worth while. The car now sounds awesome. No change in the cruise but when you floor the loud pedal it's pure bliss.

Out of curiosity if I remove my resonator and replace with an H pipe what difference will that make to the sound ?





Cutting open the top.





One down, one to go.





All done and welded back up.
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Old Mar 21, 2015 | 04:03 PM
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I'm in California. will this Modification still pass my Smog Laws of California?
Will they even be able to tell if they are still in or have been taken out all together?
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Old Mar 21, 2015 | 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Everythingsfast
I'm in California. will this Modification still pass my Smog Laws of California?
Will they even be able to tell if they are still in or have been taken out all together?
This mod? No. No O2 sensors so no light, and should pass sniffer. Sniffer is being phased out so if just through obd2 you should be golden.
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Old Mar 22, 2015 | 01:01 PM
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Another approach without cutting and re-welding: Take off and ram a broom stick into the cat to break up the and then dump out....
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Old Mar 22, 2015 | 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ColoC63
Another approach without cutting and re-welding: Take off and ram a broom stick into the cat to break up the and then dump out....
LOL...... You sir have never tried to remove the internals of a C63 secondary cat. It's a metal foil structure. Not one of those composite honeycomb ones that just fall to pieces.

However you carry on ramming your broomstick and see where it gets you
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Old Mar 22, 2015 | 08:06 PM
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This and that.
Why didn't you just put a straight pipe and removed the secondary cats instead? Is it any different than what you did?
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Old Mar 22, 2015 | 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by papashango
Why didn't you just put a straight pipe and removed the secondary cats instead? Is it any different than what you did?
Per the first sentence of his post:

"Due to UK MOT rulings that state secondary cats must be fitted..."
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Old Mar 23, 2015 | 03:58 AM
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I did exactly this about a week ago....I would highly recommend not doing it as well haha!
Was an absolute nightmare getting those piece of **** internals out!!!!
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Mine passes CA smog without secondary cats installed, FWIW
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Old Mar 23, 2015 | 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by kjkidd21
Per the first sentence of his post:

"Due to UK MOT rulings that state secondary cats must be fitted..."
Sorry papashango, but I have to.

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Old Mar 23, 2015 | 02:18 PM
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Mine passes CA smog without secondary cats installed, FWIW
Did you gut your sec. cats or delete them? Where in CA are you, Im guessing they didnt do a sniffer or visual smog test on your car?
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Old May 15, 2015 | 08:44 AM
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So it was really that hard removing the internals? Like took hours to do? What was so hard about it? I would like a little more noise while retaining the stock looking exhaust.
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Old May 15, 2015 | 02:14 PM
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I'm in South Carolina and I just straight piped mine....I mean I upgraded the secondary's.


Speaking of, I've got a secondary cat in great shape for sale. Make me an offer and yes, I will ship it!
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