Good afternoon all I was thinking of getting a upgraded exhaust for my car and may be a decat pipe can any body tell me if they have had this done and was there any improvement in performance or sound cheers again Steve

I understand if you decat it, it smells like an old ice cream van if you are near the exhaust.

A few on here have done it, and will be able to provide further info.....

Are we going for the 4 potato shooters under the bumper ? Should sound better than stock.



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1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

De cats make them stink, sitting in traffic with the windows down is vile.

Steve You remind me of a young me, not much younger mind, perhaps even a little older!

And if you De cat it you'll have mot issues un less you swap it back every time  If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

If the FF cant be fixed......buy a Land Cruiser!

If the LC cant be fixed..............................................BUY a horse !!

Actually my mate put a performance exhaust on his TDi Seat. It had no cat or silencer boxes in it. It's wasn't noisy at all! All you heard was a bit more turbo whistle.

What i would say though, it Diesels chuck out more soot, in fact i was following an X5 earlier, nice black sooty marks above each tail pipe on the rear bumper.

Welshdragon wrote:

And if you De cat it you'll have mot issues un less you swap it back every time

Mine passed its MOT without a cat this morning

IMO on a TD6 it is just not worth the effort or the expense.

You can always get the Carlos Fandango bolt on tail pipes (not actually connected to the exhaust!) .
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Steveo wrote:

Good afternoon all I was thinking of getting a upgraded exhaust for my car and may be a decat pipe can any body tell me if they have had this done and was there any improvement in performance or sound cheers again Steve

TD6 will stink without a CAT sir... A younger customer of mine had it done and it slowly smokes everything out!!!

Welshdragon wrote:

And if you De cat it you'll have mot issues un less you swap it back every time