Ive been hearing things both good and bad about running a test pipe. Is it worth the hp gains? Where is the best place to get one made? Also, I live in Cali so what kind of fines am I looking at if I get caught without a cat? pics welcome

thanx

 

anyone have experience with a bad odor due to the lack of a cat. converter?

 

anyone??

 

you will smell it.

 

Pros: Small Power Gains over Cat, unless you are running high boost and then it's even larger gains

Cons: Smells
Big fat TICKET depending on where you live, IE Cali = $5000 ticket I believe.
Polluting the environment.

 

Pro - More Power

Cons - OBD2 = Check engine light, fail smog tests

 

thanx guys, I think I will deal with the loss in hp to avoid the fines and odor. Atleast I could always tell my girl it wasn't me stinkin!

 

If the check light and failing smog were the only cons then I would go for it. Im interested in how bad the fine would be.

 

when you hug your girlfriend when you get to her house..she will tell you that you smell like gas...

 

Testpipe

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tuning

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= no smell, no CEL, and a lot of

 

Test Pipe helps a lot. it dont smell on my car either... get one that bolts up so you can put you stock cat on when you get your smog test (i live in VA w/o smog tests )

 

zip - do you sell the o2 simulators? or is that just a link to someone elses site?

 

but does anyone knwo what the fines are like?? I was thinking It would be more along the lines of a fix-a-ticket. But ive been hearing 4 digit numbers here!

 

I just got a testpipe. Reason being is that I would still fail emissions, so why not get a little bit more power out of it all? That's what I did, but it will still smell like gas regardless if you have a cat or a test pipe.

I dont know how strict the laws are where you are at, but in TX all you have to do is take it to a shop and pay them off w/ some $$ for your emissions sticker.