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  • spacemutt
    1st Gear
    • Nov 2008
    • 142

    Cat converters

    Do you need cat converters in the US? 300 Tdi models are fitted with them when new here, but you don't need to keep them on a diesel. We sell exhaust pipes that let you remove the cat giving a free-er flowing system and wondered if it was worth trying to sell them over there.
  • Leslie
    5th Gear
    • Oct 2006
    • 613

    #2
    It's illegal to remove your cats in the US.
    -L

    '72 SIII SW 88"
    '60 SII 88" RHD

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    • spacemutt
      1st Gear
      • Nov 2008
      • 142

      #3
      Bugger. Oh well. That's answered that.

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      • CliftonRover
        3rd Gear
        • Mar 2007
        • 351

        #4
        I don't think the trucks with diesel conversions here even use cats, I didn't

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        • spacemutt
          1st Gear
          • Nov 2008
          • 142

          #5
          Don't you get diesel fitted as standard?

          Over here they came in Tdi or V8 options.

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          • Leslie
            5th Gear
            • Oct 2006
            • 613

            #6
            Diesel Rovers haven't been imported to the US. At least, not by Land Rover.
            -L

            '72 SIII SW 88"
            '60 SII 88" RHD

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            • Buddy
              Low Range
              • Oct 2006
              • 36

              #7
              Originally posted by spacemutt
              Do you need cat converters in the US? 300 Tdi models are fitted with them when new here, but you don't need to keep them on a diesel. We sell exhaust pipes that let you remove the cat giving a free-er flowing system and wondered if it was worth trying to sell them over there.
              I don't think you would have much of a market for these unless you manage to attach the 300 TDI to it before shipping it over. For some crazy reason they won't import the diesel version of the LR. Even VW barely brings in any diesels.

              But you probably would have a market for importing cheap LR diesel conversions if you really wanted to expand into the US market.

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              • SGFMORover
                Low Range
                • Mar 2007
                • 91

                #8
                illegal to remove cats and depending on your state a BIG fine if a shop is caught doing it; also states that require inspections for licensing make the inspectors check and reject if they're missing (used to do inspections). lot of people will pull them and weld the cover back around the pipe to give the illusion; still illegal but works.

                side note

                really hard to make LR diesels 50 state legal; less emissions technically but the particulates are too large to pass emissions standards for a passenger vehicle in cali and a couple others. idiotically strict laws in a couple states keep it from being practical to import them basicaly. so why import somethin that you can't sell in a couple of key markets; plus diesels have an unfair bad-wrap in the states.

                personally i'd kill to make mine a diesel!

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                • spacemutt
                  1st Gear
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 142

                  #9
                  I run both V8s and smelly diesels. The V8s are lovely on the road but smelly DIEsels are far better off road and in the wet.

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                  • BGGB
                    Low Range
                    • Jul 2008
                    • 83

                    #10
                    illegal to remove, but on my dads 91 rr we just drilled out the gunk on the inside because it was blocking up. creates a smoother flow and no body can tell.

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