I heard a while back that catalytic converters rose in value enough that people were stealing them straight out of cars.

Does anyone know if I can sell my rexy's cat for enough to get myself a midpipe?

 

how many miles on the cat?
You might be able to get a few bucks for it

 

yeah most used OEM cats only sell for $25-$50, since you can get an aftermarket one for $150 now.

 

yeah i dont think you're lookin to get too much selling it but maybe aty a salvage yard i know they usually go for quite a bit...

 

not really worth selling it, keep it incase you ever need to put it back on

 

Rexy's got 28k on her.

Damn.

 

Keep your cat if you need e-checked!

 

its crazy how much our cats cost from Mazda, lol. I wish I could get 800 bucks plus for my cat with 1K miles on it if I could sell it.

 

Link? I'd be interested in a $150 aftermarket cat. Is it a highflow or OEM replacement? RX7store has the RP high flow cat for $345 so 150 would be great.

 

last High flow I bought for my 10th Anniversary Edition RX-7 Turbo was only $100 on ebay including shipping for brand new and never used or even mounted.

Magnaflow dumps their high flow cats all the time on ebay.

 

Hm. Can they handle the temps for the RX8? I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip.

 

they steal it for the precious metal inside. Not really the whole cat.

 

i could trade you a resonated midpipe for a stock cat, depending on mileage. condition and location..

beers

 

Yeah, easy... the RX-8 exhaust is much cooler than the RX-7 exhausts (side port exhaust vs peripheral port exhaust), and I have run them on RX-7s for years.

Got one on my 1988 10thAE Turbo RX-7 right now.

 

Great! My cat is 28k old, 33004 area code. How does that sound?

Otherwise, would gutting my cat offer an benefits, performance, audio, or otherwise?

 

Gutting is not a bad option - you'd get a little performance, quite a bit more sound and a CEL.

The stock cat, gutted, becomes a double resonated pipe, downside is there is no weight saving you'd have with a simple pipe.

S

 

ah,

you are close and in pettit land.. send me a pm.. i will see if we can work something out..

beers

 

swoope, pm sent!

 

is there a way to bypass the CEL if you gut the cat, by say putting in a O2 spacer or something. I just dont want the cat to fail on me and i dont want the CEL coming on and messing up the tune of the car.

 

The AP programmer from MM is supposed to delete the no-cat CEL (mine doesn't)

A CEL won't in any way interfere with the tune, it doesn't trigger a limp mode etc.

S

 

not that i'm saying not to sell you cat but if you live in a SMOG **** state like CA like i do its nice to know that i simple 10 mins of air wrench will get you a smog pass wrather than being stuck with a midpipe that doesn't'. i am running the RP its doing great and passed smog perfect lol even the the guys asked why it was so large and louder than a pervious rx8 they had. but yeah nice to know that a small 10 min of wrench time can pass smog rather than a new Cat imo. but hell i dont think my mid pipe from RP will die but always nice to have a back up

 

do you have the map that deletes that CEL or just the maps that it came with?

 

I currently have a simple pipe welded up to the stock resonator. Its no louder than stock. The cat weighs 22lbs by itself, so I guess its good that is gone. Someone paid me $175 for it. I was told that Japanese cats generally go for much more than domestics...don't know why though.

 

My neighbor said the salvage yards were paying 2 grand for a cat for the preciuos metals.

That's exgeration, but they are stealing Cats off pick up trucks and SUV's like mad out here in Calif.

 

We had that same problem here in Ohio over the summer.
Now if they want the cat, they have to dig a tunnel in the snow to reach it.