Do you really wanna stand on the side of the road and try to convince him? If you're worried about it; don't use one.

 

if you have a resonater welded into the pipe do you think a cop would mistake that for a cat?

 

im not worried about it i already have one but it didnt even occur to me that it was pretty illegal until i read this post i was just wondering if some moron cop could easly mistake it for a cat or not

 

I actually had a cop look last year when I first got the car. I think they will look if they are looking to bust you for something, kind of like not having a front license plate.

 

I just switched out my helix test pipe last night for a UR high flow 3 inch. Wow I lost a lot of power
There is a huge difference not like a 5hp difference since I would not be able to tell that. But I can feel a drop in power especially up top. Looks like I will be going with a test pipe again

 

test pipe= about 15whp

 

is that vs the stock cat or high flow?

 

Over a stock one I belive.

 

Thats considered RAPE lol..

 

There is a thread on here and I have been doing a ton of testing, thread is Buschur Racing dyno testing, or close to that.

At 316 whp in our RS last week we installed one of our high flow 3" cats. The car had our full 3" offroad system on it. To my surprise the car only lost about 9 whp. The car was also much quieter after the cat was installed and emmission legal.

I have been getting reports from quite a few California guys that have been going in for testing with our system on the car and passing, so that's great news.

I like to get all the power I can, believe that. For a 9 whp loss though I think my recommendation to everyone is going to be run the cat (atleast ours, not sure what others will cost you in power). Running without it is a huge fine and more and more places are cracking down on it.

David Buschur
www.buschurracing.com

 

how do they get that past the valve in the factory muffler?

also, how many pigs do you know who will kneel down next to someones car on a traffic stop to look for a catalytic converter. just put the test pipe on and stop whining.

 

The cops are getting retarded anymore. It is safer for them to stop and harrass someone with a nice car than it is to risk their lives with real criminals. Don't put it past them to look under the car.

For example and off topic:

End of summer my wife had my truck, my wallet was in my truck. I got hungry and decided to run into Norwalk for a bite to eat (about 10 miles). Took my '87 T-Type (Grand National). On my way home I am honestly driving 57 mph, had the cruise control on, beautiful night, windows down enjoying myself. See a State Highway Pricktrol go past the other direction, hits the brakes and turns around. I'm thinking, "Not after me." Pretty soon comes flying up on my ***, so I put on my signal and turn up the road running to the race track, as soon as I do lights and sirens. "WTF?!" I put my window down, turn on the dome light and he comes some woman on a power trip. I ask how she is, she says fine. I ask why she pulled me over, tells me, "Failure to dim." "Failure to dim?" I then tell her I didn't realize my bright lights were on and the indicator inside is burned out and show her. Then I tell her she didn't flash her brights at me nor did anyone else in almost 20 miles. (Damn car doesn't even have halogen bulbs in it). So in the meantime I tell her that my wife has my truck with my wallet and license in it. I am also in the process of trying to find my current registration and insurance card as there is 3-4 of each that are expired. While I am looking she say, "Cars kind of loud isn't it?" I say, "I don't think it is." She says, "What's that?!" I pick my head up from searching for my papers and say, "I DON'T THINK IT IS." She says, "Well I do." I tell her, "Well you probably don't like performance cars." She says, "I don't know anything about them" I tell her, "well there you go." I find the papers she wants and then she goes to the front of the car and gets on here knees (where she belonged in the first place) and looks at the car. I am thinking hit the gas and run her over at this point. Then she goes to her car, reaches inside and comes out with something. It's dark and I am watching her in my mirror. I'm like, "WTF, the wrotten wench has a tire depth gauge." Sure enough down on her knees again and checking the depth on my drag radials. Comes to the window says, "Tires are kind of bald" I say yes they are, they don't have much tread when they are new either, they are drag radials. She asks me if I think it is O.K. to drive on them and I tell her yes. She says, "YOU DO?" I say, "Yep sure do." (What I didn't waste my breath telling her was I had 4 news tires at the shop waiting to go on when my custom built wheels from Australia showed up) So then she says, "So you got in this car, drove out on a public highway with it?" I just laughed and said, "Obviously."

She ends up writing me 3 tickets, Failure to dim, Faulty tires and a fix it ticket for the high beam indicator. She then tells me if she sees me on the road again she will have me towed. I thought to myself, if I see you getting gang raped by a bunch of crack addicts I am going to stop and applaud.

Bottom line in my book is don't count on a cop not checking you out. They are mostly cowards and won't waste their time with real criminals.

BTW, I spent 3 years in the Army as a Military Policeman, I wanted to be a cop when I got out. Shortly after I noticed the ballness harassment that happens in the civilian world and decided it wasn't what I wanted to do afterall.

David Buschur
www.buschurracing.com

 

man David, that is terrible. did you go to court? esp. about the tires?

 

There was nothing I could do about any of it, the tires were bald, no sense in fighting any of it.

David Buschur
www.buschurracing.com

 

right on.