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Are you helping to reduce greenhouse gasses? I am

That's right, I am helping Canada meet its Kyoto Accord obligations by cutting down on green house gasses. How? By removing the catalytic convertors on my car. It turns out that ever since I removed those cats I've been dumping more Nitrogen Oxide (smog) into the air, but less Nitrous Oxide (you know, NAWWS). Nawws is a very bad green house gas. Sound silly? Read this:
 
http://www.junkscience.com/news2/catalyt.htm
 
After you read it, do your part to stop global warming and remove your cats! Let there be "off-road" H-Pipes!:evilgrin:
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Reply #1 –
Around here off road h-pipe = faulty equipment. But that doesnt mean I am not going to have one. :)

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Reply #2 –
Propane fuel. :) That's my part. Burns a billion times cleaner than Gasoline or Diesel.

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Reply #3 –
Yeah!  Take that all you who shunned my off-road H!

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Reply #4 –
I was hesitant to pound out my cats this time around, (last time I did it was around late '91/early '92) because I'm trying to be *reasonably* responsible about such things. I'm not a fanatical environmentalist, but I do care about such things within reason. I figured I'd eventually go with high-flow cats on an improved exhaust, and make up the rest by keeping both cars tuned up and otherwise well-maintained.

Well, obviously the tuned up part is a good plan, and won't change.. but who knows on the exhaust end of things. Smog is a nonexistant problem down here. We also don't have any emissions testing whatsoever. Off come the cats, I guess.

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Reply #5 –
Ill start a big Marijuana plant to clean the air (And my depts) next summer...  :deal: :giggle:

Seriously.... Since I cannot do a lot to reduce gasses (except intestinal ones) :giggle:
I do my part by recycling Glass, Carton, plastic...    :)

I was also hesitant to remove my cat on next Exhaust upgrade but now, im sure....  :grinno:

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Reply #6 –
glad they were always the first thing i took off my car. way ahead of ya

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Reply #7 –
anyone else notice that was written like 6 1/2 years ago?

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Reply #8 –
We have ozone problems around here so I spew freon every chance I get & I'm fixing to chop down a big old pine tree pretty soon. :D

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Reply #9 –
Hah.. someone already hammered out my main cat. Unfortunately, now that I have it off, I've found out that the piece of pipe after the cat is falling apart. (from the main cat to the ler) How much should I expect to pay for about a 2-3' section of pipe with maybe 1-2 bends, plus that ball joint-type thing on one end? Doesn't have to be aluminized, can just be the cheapest pipe possible. I don't think this exhaust will be on the car for more than 2 years. Just looking for the crudest of ballpark figures here. (no mounting cost, either.. if they'll just do the pipe I'll put it on)

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Reply #10 –
Crude... ballpark... $75 for custom bends and some semblance of that ball-socket fitting (perhaps it could be attached another way).  Just my guess.

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Reply #11 –
Talked to a friend of mine, was in the process of asking him if he knew if anyone around here did decent exhaust work. His recommendation was to delete the cat, cut off the fittings on the pre-cat side as well as the defective ball-socket fitting, and run straight pipe (bought from some place like Discount) between the two and U-bolt it on, like the ler is attached to the pipe. I think I'm going to do something like that.. but I may remove the pre-cat part of the exhaust while I'm down there and hammer those out as well. (I see they're still done, so whoever did the cat didn't do a thorough job)

As long as the car is back on the road by Friday night/Saturday morning, I'll be happy. Still haven't done the drive I mentioned needing to do in the oil thread. That'll be early Saturday morning.. and I'd rather not cram the 3 of us into my mother's ZX2.

(note: I have no welder, no welding experience, no friends with welders or welding experience that I know of, so any solution I use has to be slip-on/bolt-on/etc.)

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Reply #12 –
Quote from: jimfulco
We have ozone problems around here so I spew freon every chance I get & I'm fixing to chop down a big old pine tree pretty soon. :D

someone please tell me what the heck good these trees are for the
ground
air
enviroment

everyone i have goes right on my sawmill but you gotta love the sap.

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Reply #13 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken
After you read it, do your part to stop global warming and remove your cats! Let there be "off-road" H-Pipes!:evilgrin:

*Shakes fist*
 Maryland and their strict emissions laws! :flip: