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I was thinking of cutting my catilac converters off of my everyday driver also my tow rig for my chevy luv.I was wondering if any body has ever cut the cats off of a newer modle computer controlled truck and what the affects were. i am hoping to free up some horse power by doing this any advise would be apreciated ooooooooooooohh whea it's a 99 chevy silveradoe 5.3 ext cab with duell exhaust

There is allot better ways to get more power from your truck. I have a 2002 chevy k2500HD with a 6.0 gas motor. I went with a flowmaster muffler, reflash of the computer and reflash of the trans shifting points. I have about 300 in the deal and I tow 10K lbs every weekend with out any problems and plenty of power. My trailer is a 29 foot enclosed with 2 midget race cars and a 360 sprint car. I would look at the reflash computer sold at most shops then removing equipment.

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Certified pilots, looking down on people since 1903.

I want to get my computer reflashed but i am worried about the tourqmanagement and messing up my tranny i have already put 2 tranny's in this truck mand i don't want to do it again does any body know about the tourq management on theses viehicles.

You can't pull the cats on a 96 and later because of the O2 sensor needs to reed the exit side of the cat. and you would not gain as much as changing the ungodly restrictive muffler.

Just have a "test pipe" made for it and swap your cat back in come smog time. or you can get a dynomax high flow cat from Jegs but it wont give you the extra power on the top end like a test pipe does.

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1978 LUV Truck 2WD
450 "Small Block" Chevy
3.70 Ford 9
28x10 Goodyears

Intake, exhuast , and a programmer, you do those things there and you'll notice a world of difference.

for the intake go with something like a K&N filterpack
put a good 3" or so exhuast system on there with some headers, you could also go with LUVSADRAG's idea of putting a test pipe on there.
add in a programmer from a well known company and you'll be good for at least a 30 or hp gain.

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'80 Luv 4x4, 3" BL, 1.5" SL, 32/36, 2.25" exhaust...and fuzzy dice.
'95 Toyota 4Runner Limited 5-Speed.

I have been doing some research on the nelson tune has any body ever herd of it (nelsonperformance.com)and i am thinking of geting a shift kit and this tune i just have to get my $$$$$ strait first.