hehe, well here were my choices...
-Continue to listen to the annoying noises the defective cat was making (and it was looooud). I wouldn't do that, because I can't stand to have annoying shit like that going on with my car. Makes it sound a ghetto-beater and stuff.
-Pull the cat off and gut it. I couldn't even get the #### thing to budge. Even the guys at the shop couldn't...they had to cut the pipes near it to get it out.
-Shell out however much it was for a new cat...yeah right.
Once I get around to replacing the entire exhaust system, I'll probably put a hi-flow cat on. But until then, I recycle and don't litter, which is better than most around where I live. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>
And the gov can kiss my ass until they get a new regulation on businesses passed for how many tons of pollutants they can dump into the atmosphere a day. Right now, all they do is not meet the deadlines, then get into 5 year long litigations and cross-litigations to determine whose fault it was the deadline wasn't met. By then, they've missed another deadline...blah blah blah. Maybe Bush's new plan will get approved and might actually work.