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Looking round for good high flow cats and the ones that look ok are the 3.5" 200 CPSI Xforce and Venom ones .

I'm thinking slightly larger body and 200 rather than 100 cell core so it may at least smell like its doing something usefull .

I'm not interested in bore size discussion because its enough to say 3.5 cat on 3.5 front pipe and neck down behind the hot bit .

OD size is obviously important because it has the clear the floor pan and not sit too low . 4 4.5 and 5" ODs get mentioned so are the big diameter ones hard to fit >

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Seems like everyone likes the 100 cel 5" body Venom . I need something that's at least 3.5: inlet because that's what my front pipe is . The exhaust mob I use showed me a generic Xforce with long gentle taper cones and was thinking of cutting one end back at 3.5" . Gotta make sure they can do that socket joint in 3.5 as well .

Just spoke to George and he may be able to do me a 5" body 200 cell cat that's plenty good for ~ 300 wasps and not smell pulpy .

Thanks , A .

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I've used x-force in the past, probably about 5 years ago.. mine dislodged and rattled like a broken diesel tractor on my old R33. Previous to that I used a ceramic _us_ J__ special X-Force cat, it ended up in my exhaust system after about 18 months.. crumbled like a violet crumble lol

"Perhaps" they have gotten their shit together lately.

But I'm using a venom cat, looking inside it's welded onto the body and the finish is very good for a cheap cat.

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