2nd cats removed and stock mufflers

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zrschaef

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Any one ever have 2nd cats removed and keep stock mufflers?

Has anyone removed the 2nd cats and kept everything else stock including the stock mufflers? How does it sound? Does anyone have a video?
 
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About half the board has LOL. Sounds really good, I highly suggest it.


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@justbob any shops you recommend around chitown? The place I was going to has been busy and wanted to keep the car for a whole day to get that and wideband bung welded in..yeah ok. Not happening.
 
I have this set-up and it sounds better than stock. Getting Flow 40s and resonators knocked out this weekend for a deeper tone.
 
I just had Magnaflows put on, and it's still not loud enough for me. I found a guy to take the cats off, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. Check out Youtube! There's a bunch of people that have posted how theirs sound. You can get an idea of different mufflers sound without them, with them, with resonator deletes, and so on. Just type in Mercury Marauder, and you'll be in a whole new world!
 
ChiTownMaraud3r said:
@justbob any shops you recommend around chitown? The place I was going to has been busy and wanted to keep the car for a whole day to get that and wideband bung welded in..yeah ok. Not happening.
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Homero, go to Vasquez and sons muffler. They have shops all over, but the one in Aurora on Lake st. were super cool to deal with. I believe I paid $40.00 total.


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zrschaef said:
Has anyone removed the 2nd cats and kept everything else stock including the stock mufflers? How does it sound? Does anyone have a video?
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might make a video soon
I had what you descibed and sounded great. Now have SW headers/cats and stock pipes/mufflers/tips - sounds even better.
 
anybody know of a shop in the Dayton or Cincinnati Ohio area that will remove the 2nd cats? I'm having a little trouble locating a shop that's willing to do it.
 
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zrschaef said:
anybody know of a shop in the Dayton or Cincinnati Ohio area that will remove the 2nd cats? I'm having a little trouble locating a shop that's willing to do it.
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im having the same issue in Akron.

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2mercs said:
im having the same issue in Akron.
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Cut the rear cats out with a Sawzall, install some flex pipe. Take it to an exhaust shop and claim your cats were stolen and see if they're more willing to do it. Most shops just don't want to tamper with the emissions system, but once it's tampered with they will be less reluctant to install straight pipe.

Side note, I just did the rear cat delete before going on Power Tour and several people remarked at how good it sounded.

I'm a fan.
 
justbob said:
Homero, go to Vasquez and sons muffler. They have shops all over, but the one in Aurora on Lake st. were super cool to deal with. I believe I paid $40.00 total.


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Sweet, thanks! I know alot of places have issues removing these. I've been grilled if I was a cop at this other Mexican place on the east side. I will give these guys a shot.
 
I want to remove my rear cats too but the cheapest a muffler shop would do it for was a $150 cash ,I thought that was a lot of money for a foot of pipe for each side ? I do like that thought of cutting them off myself and saying they got stolen lol and then going to a muffler and have them weld up some pipe.maybe that would work.
 
I cut them off myself, used exhaust pipe and exhaust clamps to connect them up....3 of the 4 cuts were straight, the 1 was crooked and had to be welded by a shop. Better idea is to say you got the exhaust off of another marauder in a junk yard or bought from someone....and once installed they came up short.:D
 
loud2004marquis said:
If you ask in person I bet they would be more willing.
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^this. And don't "ask", just politely "tell" them what you want. Just like anything else in life, don't ever give people options, they will normally pick the one you don't want to hear...


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justbob said:
^this. And don't "ask", just politely "tell" them what you want. Just like anything else in life, don't ever give people options, they will normally pick the one you don't want to hear...


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What he said. Dealerships are famous for this. Any type of auto shop is in tow right behind them.
 
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