I went over to the shop to talk to JP this morning and had his read this thread.

I've got to get someone over there who knows more than I do because once he starts talking about coatings and the cats distances to the engine he starts to get a little too technical for me.

He totally understands how important it is to us that we pass state tests and get our trucks registered. My question is, even if you pass the sniffer and all of the automated test, how are you going to pass a visual.

Chuck. With a header cost in the $700 range, high flow cats run right arround $150 each or so. Then you have to look at the additional cost for the down pipe.

He had another idea after looking at my truck. He did a header for a supercharged Mercedes that it was very important that it keep the cats and be as compliant as possible.



It is a short compact header but they are equal length 10inch pipes and he was able to keep everything tight by using more bends. It was a very labor intensive and not the most cots effecient header he's done, but it worked well.

It kept the cats and everything stayed in the stock location. The downside was the price. $1,200. Is it worth the extra money to be close to stock looking and pass everything but very close scrutiny? I dunno.

Please keep giving more input and we can see how we can get this done.

Also , again wanting to pass along that these guys are very well respected and they deal with some severly high end stuff. Even Turner Motorsports , a high end BMW parts reseller enthusaisticly game me a cold call over the phone, thumbs-up aproval of JP. They are only really doing this because the are friends of mine and I have bugged them about it enough. Any help to make it happen would be great.

I've got to spend some more time on the Solara boards and see what they did to get their TRD supercharged cars to pass. If anyone wants to poke arround on there please see what you can find out. Because obviously it's being done.