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Essential styling do a decat section for s2 and turbo, it is straight forward and no changes to the electronics are required. Some cars were decatted from the factory as an option.
There should be a slight performance increase up to 12BHP with rear section as well.
Tony
Chris Goodman
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Chris Goodman
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I'm sorry to have set unnecessary hare running on this one. Guess it's yet another example of large expensive-looking Porsche dealerships having much less experience with 944 than 911. (They're also fitting new rear shocks on Monday so I hope they get that right!) Still, at least they've got loan cars and / or a good coffee machine!
eastendr
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If you've had your CAT removed and the MOT tester assumes it's a non-cat car, he'll be expecting about 2% CO2 at idle. This could be why he says it's running too lean.
There is an adjustment on the AFM for setting basic idle CO2, but this would only work in open loop mode. When the DME's working in closed loop mode (all except WOT), the lambda sensor will cause the DME to go back to .5% / 14.7 AFR.
The only way to really tell is with a wide band lambda sensor or a 4 way gas analyser.
HTH
Chris Goodman
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You're probably spot on with remark re MOT tester. He didn't give me a print-out from the analyser as the car passed but I think he did say "0.5 or 0.05%".
Frankly I don't understand the terms 'DME' or 'Open Loop' but will now be able to ask more (apparently!) intelligent questions on Monday so less likely to be suckered into unnecessary work. Don't want to start a 'thread-within-a-thread' but subject I'm a little sensitive on at the moment as bills on this car approaching £3k in last few weeks.[
To return to original point of this thread, my car seems to run very well without the cat and noise level hasn't increased much if at all - which was a concern of mine re track days. I just got an exhaust place to cut out the cat and weld in replacement pipe. Cost £100. Much less than I was quoted for any 'designed' de-cat front system.
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Cat makes no difference to closed loop running.
It does is the lambda has gone at the same time as the cat. If it hasn't then Chris's lean running is nothing to do with the cat removal at all.
As an aside my mechanic thinks the S2 would perform better with the cat and lambda removed and the ECU switched to suit.

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