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We love you Mol. Mol for President!
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We love you Mol. Mol for President! Yes! Move over here and be President of the Club!! Probably harder than the US position though  That not denigrating that position by the way....you need to experience the club over here at the moment!!
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Mol - I did the same as you and noticed the same improvements as you too. I do believe that the tiny CATs in the headers are a restriction to flow and were what looks like an afterthought, despite always being a mandatory part of the design.
Caterham Se7ens have very good performance CATs on them - but just look at the size of the things! In fact any performance CAT is huge if it is going to work efficiently - which is exactly what the M3W CATs aren't. So top work and if you don't need them for annual technical inspections, then so much the better!
An M3W with high-flow CATs however would look very different, which is what drove the current design of course. What do you plan to do come MOT time Ringa?
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I have a second set of headers, complete with original CATs.
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I have a second set of headers, complete with original CATs. Did you have to buy a set of headers complete with cats then rip them out or can the bare headers be acquired?
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I just bought a set of new headers, complete with CATs from MMC - much cheaper than I expected..... I will fit them to my stock exhausts again and bolt them up at MoT time next year....
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Sounds entirely sensible. Thanks!
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I'm about to remove my headers and wrap and remove the CATs. Is the positive thinking on this still the same? I don't have to worry about testing. I'm good friends with the tester.
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Dolph, my experience with cat removal is with a car, your mileage may vary, but all cats work the same, so there are parallels that might be worth considering before you get the screwdrivers out.
I found no appreciable change in any measure of performance...either instrumented or seat of the pants. What was noticeable...and really noticeable...was the amount of smoke and filth that came out of the pipes under acceleration..so much so that the smell was quite noticeable. Likewise, the stuff that the cat otherwise would have burned off stained the back of the car.
Would it happen in a M3W? Don't know, but again, the function of the cat remains the same regardless, so it's removal does lead to an increase in stuff coming out. What I discovered is that it's removal didn't add anything beneficial to performance or the driving experience, so I installed a low restriction/high flow cat...and left the cat on my M3W and wouldn't even consider it's removal.
Last edited by ItsJustMe; 13/08/16 05:54 PM.
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