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federal laws says you can't touch the cat, that is unless something is wrong with it. not sure about relocation, but i'm sure you can do it legally, though what inspector would know?? if you can't find a shop that'll touch your cat then you can take a hammer and beat the crap outta your stock cat, then legally they can change it. or you can move to one of the over 100 counties in georgia that don't check those kind of things. (no federal agents come around searching car exhausts  )
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Whats an emmissions test? Is it a drug test or something 
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I got a full set of pictures from them a while ago. The main problem is that the Focus Zetec's oil pan is very shallow right next to the transmission. By having it shallow there, the header can run straight down and under the engine. On the Contour, our oil pan is shallow near the main pulley. Out exhast has to curve to the passenger side of the car THEN go under the engine. In other words, the second sectionof that header would have to be completely re-done for our cars. Either that or you would have to get a focus oil pan and oil pump if that is even possible.  The good news is that there is a big heat shield piece in front of the stock resonator. It looks like this was meant for an alternate cat location. I sure would have liked the cat there from the factory! BP
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Originally posted by ButtonPuncher:
I got a full set of pictures from them a while ago. The main problem is that the Focus Zetec's oil pan is very shallow right next to the transmission. By having it shallow there, the header can run straight down and under the engine. On the Contour, our oil pan is shallow near the main pulley. Out exhast has to curve to the passenger side of the car THEN go under the engine.
In other words, the second sectionof that header would have to be completely re-done for our cars. Either that or you would have to get a focus oil pan and oil pump if that is even possible.
The good news is that there is a big heat shield piece in front of the stock resonator. It looks like this was meant for an alternate cat location. I sure would have liked the cat there from the factory!
BP
I could have told you that. 
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Originally posted by LoCoZeTeC2.0:
I could have told you that.
man you act like you have installed a header on a contour before 
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Originally posted by ButtonPuncher:
The good news is that there is a big heat shield piece in front of the stock resonator. It looks like this was meant for an alternate cat location.
Weren't there some early models with two cats, or something?
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Originally posted by Paul Kienitz:
Originally posted by ButtonPuncher:
The good news is that there is a big heat shield piece in front of the stock resonator. It looks like this was meant for an alternate cat location.
Weren't there some early models with two cats, or something?
if you are talking stock exhaust I am not sure of that. I have a very early Mystique, build date in 94 and it only has one cat on it
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Originally posted by Paul Kienitz:
Originally posted by ButtonPuncher:
The good news is that there is a big heat shield piece in front of the stock resonator. It looks like this was meant for an alternate cat location.
Weren't there some early models with two cats, or something?
none that I have ever seen.
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I think there were two-cat versions in Europe, or something.
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Originally posted by Paul Kienitz:
I think there were two-cat versions in Europe, or something.
DING DING DING we have a winner...
took you guys long enough to figure it out....
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