I live in cali and am trying to get my camaro to pass emissions soon so i can register and drive it finally after working on it for the past few months!! (bought it for 250 barely running and have been making great progress with the help of you guys!)

so, after the car exploded a dead rat out of the muffler, i decided to remove the exhaust and currently i am running an open y pipe.

i need to buy a new cat and a muffler so pass emissions and inspection, my quesiton is, what is the cheapest route i can go but still have good assurance that i will pass? assuming the rest of the car is working properly? i am on a tight budget and so im just trying to get this thing back on the road.

i sawed the AIR tube off of the cat when i was cutting it off because it was rusted on prety bad, im not sure if the AIR tube is reconnectable now, i also hit something that bent it up and so its a lot shorter now, it might be possible to run a rubber hose between it and the new cat with an AIR tube, but is the AIR tube really necessary? woudlnt driving the car to the smog center be good enough for warming up the cat? anyways..

i was thinking about just getting a cat and welding it directly onto the y pipe (which is a little mishapen now due to me sawing it off) and then getting some pipe and welding/claming the muffler to the cat, maybe with some pipe in between to put the muffler back further... but i really want to spend as little cash as possible here... what do you guys suggest?? is there a super cheap catback i can get, i am wondering if i should buy a new y pipe so that i can just bolt the cat to it instead of having to pay for it to be welded...

you think it would be cost effective?

but then im going to get into the whole thing about headers lol... i could always do them later though if i wanted..

i will most likely want to buy from www.summitracing.com if anyone could give me part numbers for cats that would work for my car to pass smog, not sure if i need the AIR tube, but if i do then so be it. thanks alot you guys!!!

 

I don't know where these wives tales get started. You need the A.I.R. tube for the cat to do its job properly once it is warmed up. Without it, you won't pass visual, and may flunk sniffer.

There are kits out there that have a piece of green high temp hose to reattach the A.I.R. tube to the cat. Ask at Kragen.

Summit has a great application menu now. Click on-line store, exhaust, catalytic converters, then pick your application from the choices. If you don't come up with CTO-4115 & MPE-93456, I did something wrong.

 

yeah i got those both thanks! i definately need the hitemp hose to reconnect the air tube, ill get that at the parts store..

i also found this
WLK-15032

for 55 bucks, its really enticing, do you think there would be aproblem with a cheaper one? its got th air tube connection too.

 

just looked at kragens website and found this
http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductD...pe=145&ptset=A

its pretty cheap, and i woudlnt have to pay shipping AND it looks like it has an AIR hookup. also, i found a 13$ air tube kit there too, so you guys think it would be cheaper to buy these two things here?

 

Note: If you AIR tube is bent, rusting, broken and shorter. It is a royal PIA to get a new one. I replaced mine with new metal pipe, i custom fitted (AKA Bend it ) mine and used silicone house with hose clamps. Hasnt melted yet