Anyone know where I can get a better deal on this cat? $375 seems like a bit much to me.

 

I want to stay relatively legal/quiet.

 

LOL...I use to run that race header that didnt utilize a cat. Id love to do it again but I cant afford the chip. Without the chip Ill just keep blowing mufflers out like I did last time.

 

Without the cat in place the ECU will throw a check engine light. Evidently the ECU also compensates by dumping extra fuel into the motor. We think the extra unburned gas ate away at the fiberglass packing on my muffler. It blew the packing on a trip up to Atlanta I replaced the muffler and it began doing it again shortly before I decided to sell the header. Right now the muffler on my car has quite a bit of the packing left but you can see fiberglass coating the inside of the tailpipe.

Even though we suspect the car war running rich it still got an average of 35-38 mpg on the highway...stock the car gets around 30 mpg on the highway. However in city driving it did lose gas mileage even with very conservative driving (mostly to keep noise level down).