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Old Sep 10, 2007 | 12:34 AM
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Default Will a off-road cat drive my o2 sensor crazy?

It's near time for me to have my exhaust line done, 2.5, cherry-bomb muffler and i'll have a magnaflow 14106 off-road cat put on it. Will it have provisions for an o2 sensor or does it just not work anymore with it being straightthrough?
 
Old Sep 11, 2007 | 01:00 AM
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Default RE: Will a off-road cat drive my o2 sensor crazy?

I'm assuming that you have a '96 or later. Also, what's an "offroad cat" typically there's "offroad Y pipe" which has no cats, or there is a catted Y which is street legal. Nonetheless, if you have an offroad Y you should get O2 sims so that your computer doesn't throw a code.
 
Old Sep 18, 2007 | 12:35 AM
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It's essentially a cat that's empty. Not like a gutted cat, because it has a straight-through pipe in it with a perforated core. No emissions control BS.
And no, i have an '88. Does this change something?

This is what i mean
http://www.car-sound.com/02product/universal/race.asp
 
Old Sep 18, 2007 | 12:36 PM
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Ok, so it's pretty much a hollow piece of pipe that looks like a cat...either way, since your car is an '88 you won't have to worry about it because you don't have O2 sensors after the cats, all you have are the 2 in the manifolds, which the cat doesn't effect, so you're good to go(providing you don't have to pass anything other than a visual emissions test).
 
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