sv6 headers

[Micksv6]

ive been looking at headers for my sv6 and pacemaker and other brands of headers have the long headers and my sv6 has the short ones and 4 cats.

im wondering what people have done about this problem. i dont want to use the long ones and go down to 2 cats as this would make the car illegal and defects suck.

ive also emailed exhaust places to no avail

thanks in advance

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

You don't have 4 cats. The two under the car are actually resonators. Two options, cut the original cats out and refit them under the car, which creates clearance issues as they are pretty big, or fit aftermarket cats. You can get bolt on items with the extractors or use universal cats and cut and weld the engine pipes.

Where abouts are you?

[Micksv6]

im in melbourne. all information i have found on the net say that it has dual close coupled catalytic converters and it does have 4 oxy sensors. also on pacmakers website the sv6 on the ve has the small headers i wonder if these would fit??

[Kal123]

Nope VE will not fit VZ.

[BXHD]

my sv6 has 4 cats too. its an 2004 model.

[Kal123]

Lol they aren't cat's, I've heard them called pre-cats, but they definitely aren't real Catalytic Converter's.

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

The two that are up near the manifold are cats, the two that are under the car are resonators. You have 4 O2 sensors, but you only have two cats. They look like cats but there is a fluted pipe that runs through them with a Helm Holtz tuning pipe inside them. They are there to take out the crappy raspyness of the exhaust note.

[BXHD]

i see i see. i have not much of an idea about what is what
4 cats sounds rediculous!! haha.

[Kal123]

4 cats sounds rediculous!! haha.

I read that as "4 cats sounds delicious"... Hahaha.

[BXHD]

I read that as "4 cats sounds delicious"... Hahaha.

gross, u dnt eat cats, u cuddle them