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do what I did, i cut the cat out to prevent further damage, it was hangin by the heat sheilds, so i ran two straight pipes, extremely loud! but beautiful
I got sick of it, and well, fixed it.... and on a limited budget so much more tourqe!
I dont know if it changed the sound, but it can be done for less than 200 bucks.
it sounds very good, and is extremely quiet, no kittens, just the one resonator,
if ya cant do it yourself find a decent local exhaust shop they should be able to help out cheap
edit, my car is a 92, with no OBD IF you have a post stream o2 sensor ( i dont know if the obd2 cars had them,) this is an o2 sensor behind the cats you will throw codes,
my car had the two infront to control fuel mixture, keepin it simple, people have made some boxes to mimic the signals, to keep the light off and trick the car to running, we had to
do this when we converted a 2.5 liter cougar to a 3.0 and made it a monster=)
also, my car is "off road use only" lol. and would never pass emissions testing, thankfully, michigan and the motor city dosnt care!