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Old 11-08-2001, 07:56 AM
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How do you gut a cat???

Can anyone help me on how to gut a cat? Is there an article anyone can link me to? I looked through thirdgen.org but I didn't see anything, but then again I may just be blind...
Old 11-08-2001, 09:17 AM
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Take the cat off and you'll see honeycomb type of material, now just get a long screwdriver or something similar and just bang it all out.

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Well hold it from the neck, start from the the bottom of the belly cut in about 1" and pull knife up to neck, guts should fall right out.


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i took off the drain plug and emptied out a sack of ceramic beads

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Just take the cat off, bend a piece of conduit to match the space where the cat was and take it to a muffler shop and say "bend this." I don't know about your emissions requirements but they must be nonexistant if you can get away with a gutted cat. Don't even ask the muffler shop to install the pipe, it's illegal.
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actully gutting the cat causes alot of turbulance and can actually slow it down, the BEST thing to do (yes, i am a genious) take a pipe, run it threw the cat then weld it in place, it looks like its installed correctly but it runs like a stright threw no cat exhaust without the restriction.
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