can you still bye decat pipes for late novas or so how many gsi novas are left

[peter gsi]

can you still bye nova decats as have a gsi nova but can find one i know they use to, or so how can i find out how many nova gsi there are out there now:)

[Andy]

i would imagine you can still hello them,yes.

[SimonTW]

Piper still offer a decat pipe for them.

[Nova-nation]

They're gettif harder as harder to find as yet isn't as much call for them due to the £1000 fine the police can slap on you for having no cat...

[Plug]

I payed £50 for my local exhaust place to weld a flange on the existing cat and make up a de-cat,

[turbojolt]

They're gettif harder as harder to find as yet isn't as much call for them due to the £1000 fine the police can slap on you for having no cat...

do you get much old bill rolling around under cars checking round you way mate?

[Nova-nation]

do you get much old bill rolling around under cars checking round you way mate?

Believe it or not, yes. There isn't enough real come down our way so they just pick on motoring offences! They are always doing 'mini mot's ' on the side of the road, they check everything!

[turbojolt]

Believe it or not, yes. There isn't enough real come down our way so they just pick on motoring offences! They are always doing 'mini mot's ' on the side of the road, they check everything!

conts lol

[pie]

police checking fo cats ? f lol what ever next

[turbojolt]

just smash out the core, that will stump them lol

[paul james]

Then theres the MOT test to think about, not just the visual check of the cat being there, but the emissions test too.

[pie]

depends how friendly you are with the tester lol

[paul james]

Problem is, if they are dodgy enough to pass a car that shouldn't, can you even trust them with your car?

[bazzap8389]

Is it pre 92 that you don't need a cat?

[Jack]

Exceptions aside, you only need a cat if you had one from factory; and its 01/08/92 onwards where the BET (cat test) is done.

[turbojolt]

when me and my brother were choon'ing his punto we were talking about de-cats but the two main problems with doing it were

1. After research the 1400 16v fiat engine doesn't respond very well to being decated
2. were to lazy to change it over once a year for its mot

solution 2nd hand sports cat job jobbed :)

[Jack]

I've never seen massive gains on small N/A engines, big fat turbo cars like decats though. Mine was like a different car with the decat.

[bazzap8389]

I've never seen massive gains on small N/A engines, big fat turbo cars like decats though. Mine was like a different car with the decat. was the same with my car i got around a 20bhp increase with my decat downpipe, sounds awsome aswell

[peter gsi]

mine k reg to should be ok for mot want to spend about 50 pound for decat use to sell on e bay who dose them now, any ideas how i can find out how many gsi novas are left just brought no for gsi and its very clean one

[General Baxter]

but what happens if you have a decat and still passes its mot :p

[bazzap8389]

mine k reg to should be ok for mot want to spend about 50 pound for decat use to sell on e bay who dose them now, any ideas how i can find out how many gsi novas are left just brought no for gsi and its very clean onethere are 55 registered ones and 233 sorn

[andyredtop83]

If its an H or J reg GSi it won't need a cat but a K or mega rare L reg will for the MOT. I took the cat off my J reg 1.2i years ago and it made a big difference but when you only have 44bhp to start with 3-4 bhp more is noticeable lol

[bazzap8389]

If its an H or J reg GSi it won't need a cat but a K or mega rare L reg will for the MOT. I took the cat off my J reg 1.2i years ago and it made a big difference but when you only have 44bhp to start with 3-4 bhp more is noticeable lol
yeah my j reg gsi went through its mot fine with my decat fitted

[General Baxter]

its bollox,

my co2 and crap are so low mine passed its pre mot with out a cat, 1998 car :)
sign of a good engine ;)

[Jack]

its bollox,

my co2 and crap are so low mine passed its pre mot with out a cat, 1998 car :)
sign of a good engine ;)
Should be a fail then if it came with a cat from factory, regardless of emissions :p

[Mark Sparks]

AS Jack said fail.