This sucks...

It's a 96 cougar xr7 with the 4.6 V8... It's really nice shape and all, now the cat's are pluged. It's driven alot, and is now getting <16mpg highway... At 3.25 per gallen, spending the $170 to get it back up to 25mpg highway makes sence really quick...

Problem is, the top exhaust flange bolt is twisted off on the drivers side(i didnt do that one it was like that when I got under it fyi), and I cannot get at the top one on the passengers side, the converter itself is in the way... What the HELL?!?!?!?!?!?

Any idea what I can do? It's halfway apart in the school shop right now.


My idea was to cut the cats out, and then give it hell... but then if I cant do it, I'm $*#&ed

Plz help
~Nate

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95 Honda Shadow ACE 1100.
1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)

Torch/cut off the cat?

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Dammit, well you told me too, so I guess that's what I'll get to do...

Ugh, just alot of freekin work, luckly I have acess to a Jesus saw

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95 Honda Shadow ACE 1100.
1999 Plymouth Neon Expresso. 2.4 swap, 10.5 to 1 comp, big cams. Autocross time attack vehicle!
2012 Escape, 'hunter" (5 sp 4cyl)

Cut them out and replace them with some pipe. Or just hollow the cats out and leave them in place. Cut them open, hammer the cermic crap out, and weld shut.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do. Destructive removal sounds like the way to go.

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1985 380SE Blue/Blue - 230,000 miles
2012 Subaru Forester 5-speed
2005 Toyota Sienna
2004 Chrysler Sebring convertible
1999 Toyota Tacoma

don't know about the later ones but the earlier fords used a honeycomb type center in the cat's,just pull em off and get a big bar and beat the crap out of em,then put em back on.