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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 12:35 PM
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i recently gutted out the cat and i was bored today so i went and took a video of it haha tell me what you think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQtylirvISM
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 01:05 PM
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Dude, ...it's going to be SICKENING GREEN this Summer, SERIOUSLY! Can't wait to get up into the Sequoias and Sierras again!
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 01:07 PM
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Oh yeah..... and MASSIVE BUG FRENZY'S, TOO! hahaha. You know what I mean.... they'll be in MULTITUDES this Summer, man! Last time we had such a wet year in CA, .... everywhere I went but Whitney was like a welcoming party of Skeeters, Gnats, etc.... and I mean, 'SO BAD that many leave within a couple hours!' hahaha.

they love that still, warm water, eh? lol.

Take care, Bro.... best wishes on everything you've got ahead!
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 01:10 PM
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i know! i think we might have passed the amount for record snowfall this year, if we didnt we were reallly close! the lake up here is almost full already! i cant wait for summer it will be awesome! except for the bugs like you said haha
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 10:18 PM
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fan belt is squealin again when its at low rpms and i turn on the 4 kc lights on top. brand new belt, im gonna try loosening it and see what happens. just started after muddin too of course haha
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 05:12 AM
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Have you upgraded to a bigger alternator to run those kc's on top?

Im about to put my light bar on in the next week or so and i want to make sure i can actually run 4 lights lol
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 06:56 AM
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nope, i havent. it is a new alternator though, hopefully i just need to loosen the belt. ive been running 4 lights for a while now and its fine. no problems at all. i wanna see some pics when you get that light bar on there!
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 07:23 AM
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Haha oh trust me, there will be PLENTY of pictures.

I put the swampers back on yesterday
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 08:25 AM
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BTW. Ive heard differen't people use different methods,
How did you gut out your cat?
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 08:30 AM
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just unbolted it, and used a chisel and a flat bar and a hammer and just banged all that crap outta there until it was hollow. took me about 20 minutes to get it all out of there
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Old Apr 16, 2011 | 08:32 PM
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sounds awesome man, gutted cats on a 22RE have an awesome sound to them. I think you should only have to loosen the belt and you should be fine
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Old Apr 17, 2011 | 05:00 PM
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sounds good man
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Old Apr 18, 2011 | 07:06 PM
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22re Cat

About that.... Mines not even there. Dont know if it is illegal or not around here but they just cause problems and it will sound a lot better with it off completely off in the first place. A header straight piped to a flow master 44 oh man.. Need to go change my pants
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 05:22 AM
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Originally Posted by 4runFreak
sounds awesome man, gutted cats on a 22RE have an awesome sound to them. I think you should only have to loosen the belt and you should be fine
thanks man, yea i still havent gotten around to it haha but hopefully thats it.

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sounds good man
thanks man

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About that.... Mines not even there. Dont know if it is illegal or not around here but they just cause problems and it will sound a lot better with it off completely off in the first place. A header straight piped to a flow master 44 oh man.. Need to go change my pants
yea hopefully one day ill get a test pipe that i can just bolt in there but it was free hollowing out my cat haha
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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 04:20 PM
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picked these up for 12 bucks each and i never really liked my little mudflaps i had on there so i bought some big rig mudflaps, and i HAD to cut em down lol, they were HUGE!




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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 04:53 PM
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looks good
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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 06:03 PM
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"NAPA KNOW-HOW, NAPA KNOW-HOW!" HEHEHE. They DO, they really do look good, HB!

How's the "IFS" doin?
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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 06:40 PM
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thanks guys, i like em too ifs is doing good, haha but hopefully soon ill be cutting it all out from under there! well see how it goes though.
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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 07:56 PM
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looking good man
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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 08:42 PM
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thanks man
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