[8695Beaters]

Beater is down here.

DON'T BUY THE HIGH FLOW CAT!!! They don't clean as well as the stock cats and you run the risk of fialing emissions (an OEM cat is over $1000 and the HF cats I've seen are about $200+). The stock cats have lots of precious metals in them that clean up the exhaust gasses. The HF cats have the same metals, but in much smaller quantities. They will flow better, but won't clean as well. And considering I was able to fail emissions in a stock Integra (in Delaware) you may want to be wary about going th HF route.

Unless your car really stinks when it's idling, it's a heat shield. You can smell a dead cat converter. When I was smogging my Silvia yesterday, the whole test bay smelled of fumes. I knew it was going to fail right away (that's from the turbo tune, not the cat converer). Sadly a broken headlight prevented me from geting a temp tag.