I just posted a full blown how to for this on the NECO board.... and it's just as illegal as getting the MSDS headers, yet we publicly talk about it here running on our street cars, so i don't see what's with the "Mystery".
I would post a link to the NECO board but it's down now... just go in the performance section and look for the how to gutting the precats posted by PuckPuck.
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