Griff new owner

[edgun]

Hello everyone,back in the Tvr fold having owned two wedges in the very distant past.had the griff about a month,and working through bits and bobs that need doing.now this is probably a daft question does my griff 500hc have cats?previous owner says no it doesn’t,car registered may 1994.
Thanks for replies in advance.

[frontfloater]

Lovely looking car, great colour combination.

[Belle427]

Show us a photo of the engine bay, it would have had one as standard so the previous owner/s must have removed it or fitted a decat y piece.
Will be an issue come Mot time sadly if its gone, spares are available though.

[lancepar]

If it's precat it will look something like this, just big pipes and best sound.

This is a 400-250bhp

[sixor8]

If you have the collector that is connected to the manifolds with clips instead of bolts, it will be a catalyst car. I would expect it to be if it is a 1994 car. There was a crossover period in early 1993 where some manufacturers had cars still to be registered, but as a low volume seller, TVR made all the 500s with cats, unless it was an export repatriated?

There's a chance someone may have gutted it to remove the honeycomb catalyst internals and there are also pre-cats inside the manifold to reduce emissions when the engine is cold. Even more of these have been removed. Emission tests are done on a warm engine so it should pass if the main cat is still in place. Some cars can be run lean enough to pass the test without a cat fitted, but unlikely in this case! There are the cliché 'friendly' MoT testers of course.

[edgun]

Thanks everyone looks like it has cats,big y piece with clamps and not bolts,last owner for 13 years was a doctor and not really a hands on guy,anything needed done was put into a garage.

[edgun]

Ok,where exactly are the precats?difficult job to delete them?

[sixor8]

The precats are inside the exhaust manifolds. There are several threads on here regarding them no doubt, here's one I found with a search. It's not easy and they'd have to come off the car to do it:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=16...