I know it is illegal to remove the catalytic converter on a road going car but what about de cating a track car?

I have got a Golf GTi MK 3 that is now getting prepped for the rest of its life as a track car, I am guessing that I will be OK to remove the CAT and link a straight pipe to the rest of the Scorpion exhaust it has on it unless you guys know any different?

Fine.

Only requirement is the noise test before track time.

fetch the hacksaw son, a small job has just broke out

Illegal?

That mean you can actually get prosecuted by the rozzers then?

I don't think it's illegal per se, but for the majority of cars, a catalytic converter is required to meet emissions regulations. If you don't meet them, the car may be deemed "unroadworthy" and there are insurance/MOT/roadside emissions check/etc implications.

Chris

Illegal?

That mean you can actually get prosecuted by the rozzers then?

I don't think there's a charge of "using a motor vehicle not possessed of an operational catalytic convertor" or similar, but it's highly likely that a G-prefix Golf would fail an MoT without one, and that opens you to "using an unroadworthy vehicle".

A G reg golf wouldn't have a cat would it?

A G reg golf wouldn't have a cat would it?

It might do, but IIRC (and I probably don't ) from my Scooby days, the stricter emissions test was introduced in 1992 for K-plate onwards so it depends how ahead of the curve they were

Chris

A G reg golf wouldn't have a cat would it?

It might do, but IIRC (and I probably don't ) from my Scooby days, the stricter emissions test was introduced in 1992 for K-plate onwards so it depends how ahead of the curve they were

Chris

I was taking the OP at their word; I think this is about when the Golf changed models, and "brand new models" from that time range often had cats where those introduced a year or 2 earlier didn't get them until an update, or "cat day" when they became effectively mandatory on all new petrol registrations.

Im comfused, the OP has a MK3, which is a J/K (1992) reg at earliest.

I don't know where the G reg bit came from, my Golf is a 1997 "P" and it has a CAT, I have been told by removing it I might need to re tune the motor to account for less back pressure, either way it is going as that piece of the exhaust is a rusty mess and the rest is a stainless Scorpion system

I don't know where the G reg bit came from, my Golf is a 1997 "P" and it has a CAT, I have been told by removing it I might need to re tune the motor to account for less back pressure, either way it is going as that piece of the exhaust is a rusty mess and the rest is a stainless Scorpion system

If you decat, but keep the lambda, the car should retune itself, as long as the injector duty cycle isn't over 90%.