Tighter emmisions standards

For the guy with the bad convertor that would cost $1200. I had an old car that failed emissions. I knew it needed a new cat because when the exhaust was replaced, I saw that the element in the cst was gone. To replace it at the muffler shop was like $400. I said the hell with that and went out and bought a universal cat that was approximately the same length. Put it on and the car passed with flying colrs. So why not try a universal cat, mine was $30 instead on $300. Extra $100 to install at the shop. Oh, and I put the uni cat on myself.


This is great advice, however here in Kalifornia they have upped the ante. Now they do manual inspections and look at the cat to see if it is correct for the year and model. I did pick up a cat from a 98 Ram 5.9 which should pass on the machine but not the visual :wack:. Also when you are Cat shopping you may see the words "49 State". Guess which state is number 50? :banghead: We can find universal ones but again they may do a visual inspection and it can fail.