De-cat - is it worth it?

[talkingfish]

Hi all,

been suggested to de-cat the 182.... a couple of questions -

1) is it worth it? do you loose torque for ultimate power?
2) which de-cat is best to buy with a standard exhaust system?
3) If the car has already had a re-map, will it need to re-maped again as a result of having a de-cat?

Thanks,

 

[Jekyll]

Have a search mate, it's been covered plenty of times and there is loads of threads on the pros and cons.

 

[MartinR]

Waste of time.

You will fail mot and have an eml on the dash.

No performance increase either just noise.

 

[Coops Mk1]

as above Darren, not worth it, same as the mk1's really, some people rave about it (placebo imo) and some people think why bother with a road car

 

[Bobby.]

Not worth it IMO.

 

[Fletcher]

Waste of time.

You will fail mot and have an eml on the dash.

No performance increase either just noise.

I have never had a EML dash light on when running a decat.

 

[James28]

I liked mine

 

[JE Nord]

Stinks like hell!

 

[aucky]

Not worth it.

 

[Snake182]

I like it on mine, sounds better (if you like it loud) don't know about power gains but freed up the revs somewhat. Anything that helps the engine get more air in/out will normally give you some sort of gain, even if its only a small one.

 

[ben_r1]

I felt my ph1 definitely drove smoother with the decat.

 

[ed55j]

182 decats are cheap and easy to fit, see how you like it, can always take it off. I had a scorpion one on my standard 182 exhaust, thought it sounded well.

 

[not normal dan]

Mines decatted, purely because my cat had seen better days, I wasn't buying a poor quality remake or paying extortionate Renault price.

As for eml there's plenty of cheap emulators available or just put it to fresh air and there's plenty of mot stations

 

[Inequality Street]

I like my decat. Very loud. I had no issues for my MOT. Bit flat in low revs, but all good.