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by tomatotomato37 2311 days ago
The reason for the superstition is that it is true ...in the 70s when the latest in emission technologies was clogging the exhaust with platinum balls. Now-a-days converters are built intelligently & removing it just reduces performance by fucking up the O2 sensor readings unless you also dump a grand on a new ECU
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> Now-a-days converters are built intelligently & removing it

> just reduces performance by fucking up the O2 sensor

> readings unless you also dump a grand on a new ECU

You can also get a piggy-back ECU for the purpose of sending false sensor data - it's quite a bit cheaper.