I gutted mine sunday, I was going to take pics, but I had a terrible time and was so pissed I didn't bother. I knocked out the catalyst material and drilled a hole through the center divider so gases can flow straight through. The catalyst material was tough to dispose of, unlike some automotive ceramic honeycomb mesh, it's a metal mesh and was tough as hell to break up and take out, I drilled a hole through the center and used an air hammer to break it up. I only removed the cap on the inlet side, then pop riveted it back together with stainless blind rivets. Looks stock unless you look in the back, you can see the hole through the divider. It sounds louder, has more cackling and popping on deceleration. I'd like to hear how it compares to the factory stainless ones.
I worked up a crude diagram
Blue- outer body, red-inner, green-flow path
The entire outer shell has sound deadening material sandwiched between it and a perforated inner liner (not shown in diagram)
Thx Brad
[ This message was edited by: kbbeckius on 2005-05-17 16:29 ]
