I was wondering if you guys could help me take the Catalytic Converter off a car. For ****s and giggles my two freinds want them taken off there '95 Tarus and '92 Shadow. I'm the most knowing about cars out of my freinds but have little under the hood time. The only reason why I'm doing this for them is because they said they'd each gimme 60 dollars. Also they wanted to know if there's any way I could fabricate them a cold air/ram air intake. Thanks for any help.

 

first, y do they want to do that, when they go to get emmisions they just have to put it back on, and if i remember correctly they didnt bolt on they are welded, at least mine were on my stang, in which case you have to cut them off and then have them welded back on.............

 

why don't you just put a high flow cat on.

 

oh great....

 

oh great..........????? whats up..............

 

Rancidsam, if you have a non-turbo car, don't take the cat off. That will relieve backpressure to the point where it hinders engine performnce. It'll also throw check engine light codes and run louder and have all sorts of other problems. Like 99 said, just get a hi flow cat.
Speaking from experience, i fabbed up a pretty nice ram air pipe that lead from an opening in my spyder's front bumper to the intake box. It wasn't too hard, but i should tell you to just keep the box and have a pipe leading to it for better results.

 

that is very true, i had a pipe on mine without the box and it didnt do that great, put the box back on with a filter attached to it and it did much better...... personally i think it works better that way also........