[Mcgilles]

so I'm out in the wonderful 70+ weather, spending it under a car of course, working on my exhaust a bit. and I noticed something from that low to the ground perspective about my 96 GL Vulcan, its missing a kitty! I never knew that, I thought all gen IIIs had 3 catalytic converters, do the SLOs only have 2??? wow, now I don't have to worry so much about failing in spection with a G3 taurus with only 2 cats...they might not notice the difference.

 

[NIGHT_RIDER]

I know the 98 SE I had with a duratec had 3 cats. About yours

:dissappear:

 

[baby sho]

(gen 3) shs have 3 cats- one on each bank and another after the y pipe. All vulcans and duratecs have only 2- one on each bank.

As for the comment about someone having a duratec with three cats.....unless someone added it, you dont have a third one....you may be mistaking it for the resinator.

Brad

 

[Twilight]

Spyguy is correct. There was no gen 3 non-SHO that came with 3 catalytics from the factory. Who knows what coulda been done to the car though.

 

[Mcgilles]

good, then I don't have to worry about it too much at inspection time...any day now! (man I hate inspections!) because they probably won't know the difference!

 

[mth676]

i had a 99 vulcan and it sure as heck had 3 cats on it.

 

[mikehawk]

You guys with the 3 cats on non-sho's, are you sure you're not mistaking the flex pipe or the resonator for a catalytic converter?

 

[BMWevo600]

they might be seeing the post-cat there are 2 cats that a monitored by o2 sensors he might be seeing the post cat that has no 02 sensors

 

[Bob Gervais]

Maybe this started with the later model Gen 3's, but I've never seen a third cat on a non SHO.

 

[Mcgilles]

this is what the 3rd cat looks like, are you guys sure you had this on your SLO?

 

[Mcgilles]

the big thing partially hidden by the in line exhaust hanger.

 

[Mcgilles]

not to be confused with the resonator, my 96 has this, all G3's came with one from the factory, SLO and SHO

 

[mikehawk]

Hmm, that's weird. Do you know which factory those were built in. IIRC my 97 taurus(duratec) was built in atlanta, and it only has 2 cats.

 

[baby sho]

like i said...if you guys have three cats, you are either mistaken or it was welded on after.

Brad