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Old 10-23-2013, 05:10 PM
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This all sounds like a huge pain for me to do once a year when I have to do emissions testing
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Originally Posted by eco-charged
This all sounds like a huge pain for me to do once a year when I have to do emissions testing
If you have required emissions testing, I don't imagine that this is really a viable mod for you.
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Originally Posted by RockhoundF150

If you have required emissions testing, I don't imagine that this is really a viable mod for you.
If I could find a shop that was familiar with this install I would seriously be willing to drive around Colorado for 364 days with catless pipes and fish out a couple hundred oer year for labor

I wonder if the catted pipes will allow me to pass. .anyone know ?
Old 10-23-2013, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by eco-charged
If I could find a shop that was familiar with this install I would seriously be willing to drive around Colorado for 364 days with catless pipes and fish out a couple hundred oer year for labor

I wonder if the catted pipes will allow me to pass. .anyone know ?
I would take that couple hundred a year for labor and buy a meth injection kit or a new CAC before a downpipe. Just my two cents.
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I just called the local emissions testing center. They said as long as I maintain the same number of cats as the oem pipes then I should be fine. And as far as I know the stock downpipes have a total of two cats. Can someone verify how many cats the stock downpipes have?
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Originally Posted by eco-charged

If I could find a shop that was familiar with this install I would seriously be willing to drive around Colorado for 364 days with catless pipes and fish out a couple hundred oer year for labor

I wonder if the catted pipes will allow me to pass. .anyone know ?
Or diy. Spend Saturday morning swapping to stock, get tested, and put the downpipes back on Saturday night. One day a year of hassle is not that bad. I would not pay labor for it though.
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Just an update, I'm putting this off until the weekend. I don't like being pressed for time on installs. Especially when I need the truck to get to work in the morning. I'd imagine this install gets easier every time you do it.

High flow cats and exhaust sniffers are hit or miss. I've had headers and high flow cats pass emissions before on past mustangs.
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It's not bad. The hardest part is that removing heavy stock y-pipe with the truck on jackstands and on your back.. :-p
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Yeah, that thing surprised me on how heavy it was when I got it out the hangers.


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