Passing emissions with catless dp

[Gone in 60]

Nah. Cops in Santa Ana are too busy to deal with stolen cats. I called when it was stolen and they took the license number and our address and said thanks for the info. There was some street karma in that a few days after mine was stolen, a guy was found a short distance away crushed under a Prius with a Sawzall in his hand.

The cat that was stolen was a new Magnaflow 50-state that is CARB legal and cost about $550, so I know what a new one will cost, and I can buy one and slip it in place before my next smog check.

 

[green_henry]

maybe this is just me being overprotective, but if you are taking your car to the track, I would say hold on to the cobb cat. I used my stock cat for about 10 tracks days or so in arguably irresponsible temperatures of up to 105. eventually, parts of the stock cat got damaged and had to replace it. now running the same cat as you, I think the Cobb catted downpipe and purchased an extra factory cat as well as a moutune cat, just in case as who know when they will make these things anymore.

btw if you do decide to sell, lmk as I am more local to you and can pick up. hope to collect and hoard at least half a dozen quality catted downpipes this year.

I track mine at Thunderhill which is often ~100, but I try usually cancel if I know it's > 100. The June event was ~103. Did you have any symptoms when the cat was damaged?

 

[Dpro]

maybe this is just me being overprotective, but if you are taking your car to the track, I would say hold on to the cobb cat. I used my stock cat for about 10 tracks days or so in arguably irresponsible temperatures of up to 105. eventually, parts of the stock cat got damaged and had to replace it. now running the same cat as you, I think the Cobb catted downpipe and purchased an extra factory cat as well as a moutune cat, just in case as who know when they will make these things anymore.

btw if you do decide to sell, lmk as I am more local to you and can pick up. hope to collect and hoard at least half a dozen quality catted downpipes this year.

I think you have the Gesi cat they stopped selling Ron, his cat was the 1st gen Cobb cat sold back in 2014-2015 . When you got yours they only had the Gesi cat and you had to jump through hoops to buy it in state because it was pending CARB EO approval. They have since pulled it altogether from their website till/if they approval on it.
I wish I had bought the Gesi pipe because it’s a 400 cell hi flow cat which should not trigger any cel because it’s got a higher cell count than most aftermarket DP‘s which are usually 200 cell. I believe stock is between 400 and 600.
I am looking for a stock down pipe myself to mode the section below the cat to 3 inch piping.

 

[TyphoonFiST]

The whoosh Catted portion of the DP was a mirror of the Cobb 400 cell?

 

[rallytaff]

maybe this is just me being overprotective, but if you are taking your car to the track, I would say hold on to the cobb cat. I used my stock cat for about 10 tracks days or so in arguably irresponsible temperatures of up to 105. eventually, parts of the stock cat got damaged and had to replace it. now running the same cat as you, I think the Cobb catted downpipe and purchased an extra factory cat as well as a moutune cat, just in case as who know when they will make these things anymore.

btw if you do decide to sell, lmk as I am more local to you and can pick up. hope to collect and hoard at least half a dozen quality catted downpipes this year.

I'm hanging on to the COBB downpipe. When I was talking about potential buyers, I meant for the car.

 

[Clint Beastwood]

maybe this is just me being overprotective, but if you are taking your car to the track, I would say hold on to the cobb cat. I used my stock cat for about 10 tracks days or so in arguably irresponsible temperatures of up to 105. eventually, parts of the stock cat got damaged and had to replace it. now running the same cat as you, I think the Cobb catted downpipe and purchased an extra factory cat as well as a moutune cat, just in case as who know when they will make these things anymore.

btw if you do decide to sell, lmk as I am more local to you and can pick up. hope to collect and hoard at least half a dozen quality catted downpipes this year.

Do you have a tune that is maybe unnecessarily loading up the cat? Just curious, the burble/pop tunes could load it up running dirty but if you're keeping the cat hot it should clean it out - that being said, I've fractured a catalyst before from... well lets just say it wasn't mature behavior but it sounded and looked cool but the repeated shock was unkind to the cat.

 

[Dpro]

The whoosh Catted portion of the DP was a mirror of the Cobb 400 cell?

no it’s a 200 cell. It was made before COBB released their GESI it might have been a copy of their first gen cat dp.

 

[Magnetic]

Speaking of running catless, I dodged a bullet yesterday. Coming back to the shop in my "rollin' dirty" van, they had a portable roller dyno/smog station set up on my street and were pulling cars out of traffic to do emissions testing. They had a poor old Ford Aerostar on the rollers getting tested, but I didn't get pulled in to be tested.

Now, I have heard that this is done just for sampling in different areas, and you can refuse to be tested and go on your way. And, since it's not for enforcement purposes, they can't penalize you during these pop-up tests. But, I was ready with a "Look, my cat will just get stolen again in this neighborhood, what would you do?" speech if it went in that direction.

What reich state do you live in?
LoL

 

[Gone in 60]

What reich state do you live in?
LoL

Give ya one guess...

Speaking of which, is catalytic converter theft a big thing nationwide now?

 

[TyphoonFiST]

Give ya one guess...

Speaking of which, is catalytic converter theft a big thing nationwide now?

Always has been....its just coming more into the limelight as of late*

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[carnufex]

Give ya one guess...

Speaking of which, is catalytic converter theft a big thing nationwide now?

The cost of those precious metals has skyrocketed, palladium, platinum, etc. They love cars with low emissions and multiple cats, I think the new tacoma has like 4 cats.

 

[Gone in 60]

Always has been....its just coming more into the limelight as of late*

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Been getting a lot of press in California lately, but didn't know if it was just us. Sorry to see it across the country.

The cost of those precious metals has skyrocketed, palladium, platinum, etc. They love cars with low emissions and multiple cats, I think the new tacoma has like 4 cats.

Yeah, when I took the old cat out of my van when it wouldn't pass smog, I got almost $300 for it, and that was from a legitimate recycler. I can imagine what you'd get if you had a trunk full of 'em.

 

[rallytaff]

UK has a huge problem with this. They're stealing them in broad daylight!