While under my truck the other day, I got the idea that maybe I should consider taking the cat off my truck. It's an 02. It looks like the cat is just clamped onto the rest of the exhaust pipe. Can I just take those clamps off, remove the cat, and replace that section with pipe? Will this make the truck run any better? (cooler, better mpg, more power, etc)

Thanks.

 

is yours a california rig? if not, they didnt put them in until 04.5

 

I think ur seeing the resonator thing. I had one right before the muffler, and took it out. You won't see any performence increase, maybe egt's a bit lower but not alot.

 

yep no cat on the 24v's just a resonator

 

Yep my resonator got lost when I went to 4" exhaust, straight thru muffler. Not much louder that stock.