tranny, (et al), install questions

I have always filled mine up from inside the car using a tube going into the drain/filler hole from the console area.

Yeah, I have never measured it out, just filled it up enough so that it is full but doesn't slosh some out when I put the shifter in.

Can't help there. I have removed 2 of them, but have never put one back on.

The stock 1.8 liter catalytic converter and mid-pipe take larger than 2" gaskets, iirc. It seems like the FM cat hooking to the OEM exhaust manifold and OEM mid-pipe on the 1996 model took 2 1/2" gaskets, maybe they were 2 3/8".

It has been a while since I have worked on a completely stock exhaust.

Yes, not a clear picture at all, but there should be plenty of light shining through the element if you hold it up to sunlight or a light bulb.

Pat

ok

sound easier that finding a cc measure

why not?? dont they stiffen up the car?

I'll just take the piece to the jobber...

this one looks like harly straingh pipe...

thanks, peter

Do you mean that it is an open pipe?

Pat

what is what it ollks like :) i guess I will wait until emmission gets mad to change it.

My JR cat failed long ago and I hollowed it out. Very tinny sounding, I really hated it. I bought a "test pipe" catalytic converter replacement and then it sounded great without that hollow expansion chamber. No question that the lack of a catalytic converter added power to the car.

The car was dead about a year before the new local emissions would have made me put one back on.

The current one has a 3" cat, is a 1991 model so does not have the OBD-II hookup to worry about at all, and it passes the tailpipe sniffer with very good results, two times so far.

Pat

thanks chuck, peter