- Vehicle Model
- 60 Series
- Location
- Idaho United States
Anyone have a test pipe they'd sell?
Wanted WTB FJ60 CAT Test Pipe (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Webster
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MAF still sells them, or are you looking for a used one?
Step 1: Cut the flanges off your cat and weld pipe in its place.
Step 2: “test”
Step 2: “test”
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Sadly not one of those guys with a shop or welder. Wish I was. Looking for easy button. I've tried to get the local shop to do this and they absolutely refuse to do it. Perhaps if I came with the CAT already missing they'd build me a system from there back.
Bear
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Hmmm. So the smog Nazis are in Idaho too?
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Not in North Idaho. Just want to buy the turnkey replacement exhaust but they are all CAT back. And my CAT is shot.
No muffler shop will willingly remove any smog equipment: it's a Federal crime and not worth losing their business license over a $300 job.
The only possible way to have one made is to take the flanges and pre-cut pipe to a welding shop and see if they'll do it as an extension piece for headers.
Or, you could just buy the MAF one (that comes with fasteners and gaskets) for not much more in time and $ than it'll cost to fart around having one made.
The only possible way to have one made is to take the flanges and pre-cut pipe to a welding shop and see if they'll do it as an extension piece for headers.
Or, you could just buy the MAF one (that comes with fasteners and gaskets) for not much more in time and $ than it'll cost to fart around having one made.
This is how it is in Colorado as well. They're not going to risk it all like that. Even sketchy shops I've pulled up to for a quick exhaust patch job, places that look like a front for a drug enterprise or something, they won't touch stuff like this.
They're in the wrong business I imagine hahaMaybe you can get some Venezuelan gang members to do it?
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You’re probably correct. Not excited to spend $230 for test pipe on top of the $350 for exhaust they sell. I guess if I wasn’t so lazy I could cut off the flanges and use some slip joints.No muffler shop will willingly remove any smog equipment: it's a Federal crime and not worth losing their business license over a $300 job.
The only possible way to have one made is to take the flanges and pre-cut pipe to a welding shop and see if they'll do it as an extension piece for headers.
Or, you could just buy the MAF one (that comes with fasteners and gaskets) for not much more in time and $ than it'll cost to fart around having one made.
Bear
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Very interesting that muffler shops won't get involved with test pipes saying they "follow the letter of the law." Wonder how many of the catalytic converters that the local thieves are cutting every night with their Harbor Freight "Sawzalls" are getting reinstalled back on other victims' cars? If metal recyclers and muffler shops aren't buying them under the table, must be them darn aliens taking them back home to Xanu to hang on their Festivus trees ? !
I've never met Xanu, but Xenu and John Travolta would like to have a word with you.
They take them to specialty metal recyclers here, which are usually around the back of the seedier steel recycling places.
Colorado went to CARB-certified cats a couple years ago, so the muffler shops - again with an eye towards risk mitigation- will only install brand new cats. And what do they care, they pass the $1000-2000 price on to the consumer.
