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What to do with catalytic converter? Sell it, or keep it?
Deleted OEM catalytic converter. Can the old converter be sold? Or should an owner keep it for possible future needs?
Last edited by Peter Aawen; 07-10-2022 at 07:26 PM.
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Originally Posted by seagravesg
Deleted OEM catalytic converter. Can the old converter be sold? Or should an owner keep it for possible future needs?
I kept mine so if I decide to sell the bike in the future, I can give it to the new owner.
Last edited by Peter Aawen; 07-10-2022 at 07:27 PM.
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Hang onto it. Or sell it. They're worth a lot of money.
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You who delete them, do you know what it does?
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Originally Posted by Tonylmiller
You who delete them, do you know what it does?
I could not see going out of my way to make more pollution.
Good for you.....Glad to hear!
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Originally Posted by seagravesg
Deleted OEM catalytic converter. Can the old converter be sold? Or should an owner keep it for possible future needs?
If keeping recommend tag/label it accordingly. Including vin# somehow or another (Helps the memory filing process too)
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Keep it. I also did the cat delete, but I've switched back and forth, I put it back on for now, I like it quieter... only takes a couple min. to change. I also would put it back on when taking it to dealer under warranty.
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Keep the converter
...I agree with what others have Posted.
Definitely keep it a and have it labeled so you know what it is moving forward.
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I put mine back on my RTL because I didn't like the exhaust smell without it. Chris
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I put mine back on my 16 F3T (to sell) and moved my bypass with 2 baffles, one on either end, to my 21 F3T.
Will be storing that cat as well.
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Originally Posted by seagravesg
Deleted OEM catalytic converter. Can the old converter be sold? Or should an owner keep it for possible future needs?
There are some states that require a SAFETY & SMOG INSPECTION every year and that is the first thing they look for. KEEP IT.
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Not really, 58k miles of smiles,
She still runs like a champ, just thought I would upgrade before the prices go beyond the moon, and before I retire.
Retired, no work, no worries, and you guessed it no money.
I'll be selling Monique so if you know of anyone looking....
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I was told by a Spyder Tech. that those are not actual catalytic converters but just a "pre-muffler". I saw a photo of one that was cut opened and there were just tubes inside. No cat converter material. They are relatively heavy as are stock mufflers. I don't remember where I saw the cut away photo but this is what I was told. Take it for what it is.
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Originally Posted by BanditoRS
I was told by a Spyder Tech. that those are not actual catalytic converters but just a "pre-muffler". I saw a photo of one that was cut opened and there were just tubes inside. No cat converter material. They are relatively heavy as are stock mufflers. I don't remember where I saw the cut away photo but this is what I was told. Take it for what it is.
Dunno about that Spyder Tech, nor about your 2016 F3 T Bandito, but the Catalytic Converter or pre-muffler or whatever you want to call it that came off my 2013 RT was VERY DEFINITELY a catalytic converter with a catalytic honeycomb inside one of those tubes contained inside the box. Admittedly, it's a very small amount of catalytic honeycomb; but still, it's there so it does sorta qualify as being a cat converter, despite the very small amount of converting it might do!! .
IIRC, there was only about 1.5" or so of honeycomb material filling the inside of the middle one of those 2" dia 'just tubes' contained in the cat converter box - the rest of the box and all the baffles/restrictions on free-flowing exhaust etc are simply there to create sufficient/excessive exhaust back-pressure so that the trapped & choked exhaust gasses will heat up that catalytic honeycomb to the something well over 600°C that's necessary for them to effectively do anything 'worthwhile'!! . There again, there's such a tiny amount of catalyst material in there that for all the excess back-pressure & excessive heat produced, the 'worthwhile' bit in that previous sentence is questionable, as the tiny amount of catalyst contained will only be capable of 'converting' about 2/5ths of 5/8ths of s**; - altho that too is really not such a biggie, cos most (any large engined Boss Hoss or similar bikes possibly excluded ) modern 4 stroke EFI motorcycle engines are small enough & (can be/should be??) tuned well enough that they produce very little in the way of harmful emissions anyway - there's quite a few 'experts' who argue that the harmful by-products resulting from creating & eventually disposing of the cat converters installed on modern motorcycles far exceeds anything they may clean out of the exhaust they produce during their working life; but hey, they're ICE's that aren't electric, therefore they must be harmful!
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Did deleting the cat add any kind of performance? I know it "adds" sound!
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