tt race dp question: can I fit a cat with it?

[Rabbit16v@attbi.com (Rabbit16v)]

Then what you need to do is either get a "test" pipe made for the cat area
and take that thing out.

As far as getting a $2500 fine, that is correct but you should get a $2500
fine for letting someone else mess with your exhaust!!

Actually, what I mean by that is that you probably paid some muffler shop
enough in labor and crap that you could of bought the cat back exhaust from
TT or Autotech or someone and did the bolt-in job yourself.

I sure hope he didn't work his "cut and weld magic" on your TT race DP!!

Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Morehead" <wolfsburg16v2k2@yahoo.com>
To: "Rabbit16v" <Rabbit16v@attbi.com>; "list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: tt race dp question: can I fit a cat with it?


>
> i live in davie county in north carolina, and when they do inspections
here they do no check exhaust at all.  my car is a 1987 16v scirocco.  the
exhaust place i went to was in a neighboring county.  the guy that did it is
a wizard with a torch and i had seen his work b4, which is why i chose to go
there.  when i was explaining what i wanted i mentioned doing it without a
cat. he said he couldnt do non-cat exhausts because if for some reason EPA
came into his shop while he was working there would be a $2500 fine.  now im
sure the odds of them showing up at some tiny muffler shop in a small town
is very unlikely, but he wasnt going to take the chance. i said "but i have
a race dp and it fills the place where a cat would be" and he looked under
the car and said "no problem".  i came back 4 hours later and there was
definately a cat under there.  next time its on a lift ill try to remember
to take pics.
> -tony
>  Rabbit16v <Rabbit16v@attbi.com> wrote:If you don't have any emissions to
pass then why the heck do you have a cat
> on at all? What year is your car and what year do you have to do
emissions?
> This is exactly why I never want to hot rod anything that is new enough to
> smog. No smog here either but I know it's coming and don't want to have to
> worry about it.
>
> Find out for sure about this "fine" heresay is almost always wrong!!
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tony Morehead"
> To: "Ron Pieper" ; "list"
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 7:04 PM
> Subject: Re: tt race dp question: can I fit a cat with it?
>
>
> >
> > its about 3 inches back past the end of the dp. he turned it at sort of
a
> diagonal to make it fit. i havent had it smogged, because where i live
> there are no emissions inspections to pass. i was gonna have it done
> without a cat, but the guy said there would be a huge fine if epa came
while
> he was doing it.
> > -tony
> > Ron Pieper wrote:Where'd they put the cat, way back
> where the resonator belongs? Have
> > it smogged? Would like to know results if so.
> >
> > Thx
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > --- Tony Morehead wrote:
> > >
> > > actually i have a tt race dp, a high flow cat, 2 1/4" piping and a
> > > magnaflow muffler. in other words it can be done. its not bolted
> > > together though, it was entirely custom done by my local exhaust
> > > artist who welds everything.
> > > -tony
> > > Sandor wrote:ok, I can a good deal on a TT race
> > > downpipe, which as you guys know I need
> > > to get my 87 16V scirocco on the road...but this car is still
> > > emissions
> > > controlled, so I have to run a cat, so can I run a cat on the TT race
> > > dp
> > > and have it fit in a mk2 16V rocco?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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