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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610   
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Cheap as chips and available in abundance for a TD5 one. Try sourcing one for a Puma, was easier and cheaper to design and fabricate my own.
 If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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16th Sep 2014 9:24pm |
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| Will.I.AM Member Since: 16 May 2013 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 425 
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i have a 56 plate, with a de-cat and cherry bomb, and it went straight through no questions, i think to be honest its down to the MOT station, if they know the vehicle is safe and they like you, it normally passes!
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19th Sep 2014 12:35pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610
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Wonder if the insurers would be so obliging in the event of an investigative claim? Any excuse normally?  If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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19th Sep 2014 12:48pm |
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| Will.I.AM Member Since: 16 May 2013 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 425
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i tend to think about it.
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19th Sep 2014 12:51pm |
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| Lambley Member Since: 20 Apr 2013 Location: Mid Devon Posts: 1435 
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I'm thinking of putting my cat back on just to be on the right side of the law, plus I'm sure it'd make the exhaust note slightly quieter, has anybody put the cat pipe back on? Even if it was just to get an MOT?
I'm wondering what difference in power it'd make overall, is it going to be noticeable or negligible? |
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25th Sep 2014 5:55am |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610
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It'll be the opposite effect of when you took it off! Can you not remember?
I can still remember the significant difference it made when my cat was initially removed. If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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25th Sep 2014 9:02am |
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| Stue5 Member Since: 06 Jul 2014 Location: Marche Posts: 111  
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Ex environment agency vehicle came with no cat
 Td5 2005, egr removed ect. Range Rover p38 4.6 99 lpg(gone  ) |
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25th Sep 2014 9:25am |
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| Stue5 Member Since: 06 Jul 2014 Location: Marche Posts: 111
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sorry forgot to say it passed the mot last month
 Range Rover p38 4.6 99 lpg(gone ) |
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25th Sep 2014 9:26am |
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| Lambley Member Since: 20 Apr 2013 Location: Mid Devon Posts: 1435
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 No I can't remember to be honest! I do know it made a bit more noise.
I'm Going to see Gary at Alive and get him to check everything's running properly as when it was MOT'd the first reading was high, I just want him to check the map and diagnostics over and I'm tempted to put the cat back on beforehand, maybe even tweek the map down a bit |
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25th Sep 2014 10:18am |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610
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Another option that I've just this minute posted on a sister thread before you refit perhaps? You could then fit and forget....
Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated  If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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25th Sep 2014 10:30am |
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| Lambley Member Since: 20 Apr 2013 Location: Mid Devon Posts: 1435
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I did think of doing this but it's not as easy on the earlier models, the cat's not at the end it's more towards the middle so it'd probably mean cutting, removing and re-welding it
 Click image to enlarge |
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25th Sep 2014 11:16am |
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| landy andy Member Since: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ware, Herts Posts: 5805 
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Does it not dissolve with petrol? Something in the back of my memory when they first came out that if you kept cranking a petrol engine cat would be damaged with the petrol?
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25th Sep 2014 1:42pm |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610
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 Sorry Lambley TD5 thread. You could get something fabricated in stainless if you've a stainless decat pipe already. You'd obviously have to get the pipe cut and subsequebntly rewelded to fit but it shouldn't be an issue.
Click image to enlarge My Puma now has a cat fitted in the same place as a TD5's.
Click image to enlarge If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!! Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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25th Sep 2014 2:41pm |
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| munch90 Member Since: 26 Oct 2013 Location: guildford Posts: 3558 
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that was if you cranked a petrol over the petrol would soak in to cat then when it started it could burn in side and the heat could melt the core , not dissolve it |
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25th Sep 2014 3:34pm |
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