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(More customer reviews)Leave it to CA to be different. This time it costs you $100 over the 49-State version. Funny thing is I had a Car-Sound 49-state catalytic converter and passed CA SMOG on several occasions (pre-new cat law). The construction of the cat is still nice. It's all stainless steel with clean welds. They did use lot of heat on the flange welds as the flange was bowed from the welding. This didn't cause any issues when mounting though. The biggest problem is that Magnaflow/Car-sound no longer includes the exhaust gasket so make sure you buy one of those before taking the exhaust apart.
The cat is a lot smaller (50%) and lighter (50%) then the old OE cat which makes it easier to mount If you have an aftermarket cat-back then it's a simple process of unbolting the 4 bolts on the cat flange and loosening the exhaust clamp. If you don't have a clamp-on cat-back then you'll have to cut off the old muffler and either weld or clamp on the new cat. In which case, it might be better to just buy the universal version which is a bit cheaper.
Amazon shipped the cat in the Magnaflow box with no additional packing. This isn't that big of a deal but the box was starting to break apart since they only taped one side and the cat could slide around inside. More importantly, the inside of the cat was OK.
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