MX5 DECAT ??

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simonbaines68

Original Poster:

6 posts

221 months

Saturday 15th December 2007
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Just purchased a Eunos 1991 ,has been in the country since 2000.
Has a stainless steel exhaust and sounds pretty loud,very nice at idle but boomy at about 3000 revs eg annoying on a run.
Not that happy and looking to change things about,how do i tell if i have a Cat or a silenced decat pipe, wondering if the excessive boyracer drone is poss this, or that the rear silencer needs replacing??
Cheers

NiceCupOfTea

25,298 posts

252 months

Sunday 16th December 2007
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The good news is that you don't need a cat due to the age of your car.

The cat will look like this:


If it's a decat then there'll just be a pipe with flanges welded on the end where the car should otherwise be.

I've heard that losing the car makes the engine a bit boomier, but a SS exhaust will make it louder. I have the standard 1.8 exhaust on mine. It did have a SS exhaust and no cat but a dodgy MOTer failed it and the previous owner put an original system on at great expense (1200 quid including cat eek). 12 months on and it has a loose baffle and the end of the pipe is rusting badly rolleyes

Will probably get an SS back box and pipe at some stage.

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Sunday 16th December 01:49