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De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:10 pm
by camroc
hey all, just wondering if anyone can help me, love the sound of my mini but id love it even more if it backfired
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so I was thinking of removing the cat, and put it back on for nct and all that, anyone got any advice or know how to do it, I have a millennium twin DTM exhaust
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Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 5:53 pm
by drifthooligon
I presume its a removable cat yea ? I had the same idea and being 1989 it doesnt need to pass in emissions so it'd be no problem in that way so is it as simple as making a straight through pipe the same diameter as the system and making brackets to suite or would there be more to it ?
Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:09 pm
by kerryminigringo
Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:19 pm
by drifthooligon
Not too bad, if I wanted to could I cut the brackets off of the cat on the exhaust and get some stainless tubing and weld them on ?
Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 9:49 pm
by camroc
cheers lads, and is that just a bolt in piece or do I need other parts?
Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:25 pm
by drifthooligon
Gaskets or gasket sealer would be handy
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Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:27 pm
by camroc
ah yeah, but I can get them in the motor factors
Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:49 pm
by drifthooligon
Well then your sorted
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another barbarian method if you had a spare cat would be to get a crow bar and break up the filters in the cat but then that would just act as a slight resonator compared to a straight pipe and if your considering making your own maybe you could reduce the diameter of the pipe to add a slight rasp to the sound
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Re: De-catting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 11:24 pm
by joeyfinneran
Sorry to hijack thread but its on topic
Can a shallow cat be got ?
Any time im on a ruff road thats all that catchs unless its a stupid road when the sump guard hits the grass in the middle
I know a de-cat pipe would solve it all but effort of having to change it once a year
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Re: De-catting
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:22 am
by drifthooligon
You could fit a striaght through decat and fit a butterfly valve aswell and run a cable into the cabin and pull it to close the valve for the nct
Re: De-catting
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:03 pm
by Dylan8660
A y piece to cat pipe of an lcb can be twisted to raise the cat out of the way and snug in the tunnel.