Catalytic Converter Removal???

[03ranger30]

Mine sounds like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldFV-nDUpb8&feature=channel_video_title

 

[dhinch279]

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

It would be nice if people searched catalitic converters before they posted. Then they'd see how everyone here feels about it. Or if they would just read the sticky at the top of the Exhaust forum.
Link:
http://therangerstation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57083

 

[exbass94]

I really think we need a sticky on the bads of removing cats.

We already do:
http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=45
Now if only people would actually friggin read it....

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

We already do:
http://www.therangerstation.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=45
Now if only people would actually friggin read it....

I ninja'd you on the link dude.

 

[Twister]

OK, curiosity now, how loud is everyone else's rangers with a flowmaster 40? Mine sounds like this:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/AWiynDOfHWk

Windows were up so what it sounds like is what it sounds like to me

I couldnt even tell your truck started untill you revved it a bit

 

[LearjetMinako]

I got a '98 Ford Ranger, 4.0ltr V6 I have done a bunch of mods on it, and finally got down to the sound of it. I bought a Flow-master 40 the aggressive blah blah blah blah blah....

Had 'er in and well... no sound?!?! I thought this was supposed to be the loudest SOB out there, so I took a closer look at my exhaust turns out I got 2 Catalytic converters one in front of the other, with a O2 sensor out of there...

Now I'm wondering if ditching the CAT/S will help with the sound at all and what are the negatives to doing it??


Can anyone help me out??

Thanks-

Hooper

So to help you out. First and last, the cat is needed. But here is my thoughts, trying replacing the cat with a hi-flow cat. Its what I had to do to a 76' Nova 305 when I replaced the exhuast. Except I installed a true dual flow master 40 and dual hi-flow cats (1x per exhuast pipe). Kept me legal to drive it and gave it a better sound.

 

[clvanhorn]

the flow 40 is not the loudest muffler of that style by far. try a vforce if you can find them around you. its a smaller company, but they are SO much louder and imo much better sounding than flows. but i'm a flow hater so somebody else chime in lol... ps, i run a thrush welded on my 2.9 and am very happy with the sound, esp after hearing my buddy's ranger with the same setup but with a flow40. yes his was louder, but it also sounded like a damn honda.

 

[hooper98]

No no no....

haha! I'm not looking to have a sound of a Turbo Diesel, just a little rumble to cut out the power steering whine. ha.

As for the video, (and thanks for posting that) I do not even get that, it sounds as if I didn't even swap it??

I didn't mean to offend anyone about the topic, just a question I had from me and my buddies.

Anywhoo! Thanks for the replies gentleman, and ladies.

All the Best,

Hooper

 

[doorgunner]

haha! I'm not looking to have a sound of a Turbo Diesel, just a little rumble to cut out the power steering whine. ha.

As for the video, (and thanks for posting that) I do not even get that, it sounds as if I didn't even swap it??

I didn't mean to offend anyone about the topic, just a question I had from me and my buddies.

Anywhoo! Thanks for the replies gentleman, and ladies.

All the Best,

Hooper

Awwwwwwwww....don't mind them....they just like to water....errrrrr.......keyboard the new guys.......

 

[nine-teen91stxranger]

.... do you have it in the right way?

 

[adsm08]

You do have quite the way with words!

Well I did almost major in English. I did take a minor in being unpersonable.

now....now, ads...do you need some of my meds....I remember years ago when you convinced me that removing my cat was a bad thing

Couldn't have been me. You had the V-8 before I signed up.

 

[adsm08]

haha! I'm not looking to have a sound of a Turbo Diesel

That actually isn't hard to do. Just move all your plug wires one spot to the left.

just a little rumble to cut out the power steering whine. ha.

Have you tried filling the fluid?

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Well I did almost major in English. I did take a minor in being unpersonable.



Couldn't have been me. You had the V-8 before I signed up.

 

[hooper98]

The fluid is fine, I flushed it about a month ago.
Think the mechanism itself is just poopered, so.... 'nother hundred bucks into the beast....
uggh..

All the best,

Hooper