Time to gut a sick cat!

[Lezard]

Too funny guys. I straight piped it last night. Only rear muffler remains. Straight pipes from manifold to rear muffler. It's STILL not sounding right!

So let's look at the things I tinkered with to see what might have caused me to lose my awesome classic V6 ripping sound.

Ignition coil: Changed to a generic non-Bosch coil(tach doesn't work in case you were wondering)

Ignition wires: Changed all except the coil wire, that's still the original blue(I accidentally ripped my new one, so I kept the old wire)

New distributor cap.

Spark plugs were all removed, then put back. . .(bought wrong plugs, decided to keep original 4 pronged plugs.)

Messed with the timing a bit. . . Was very confused when I had the wires crossed and was wondering why it wasn't running properly.

Would any of this stuff cause me to lose my awesome sound that these cars have?

[slyalfa]

Well the basics.

is all 6 cylinders firing?
is there a clear path in. ( no rages left in the works)
a clear path out no plugged parts.
is the timing right. and advancing.
fuel filter(s) clean?
compression test OK on all cylinders?

[Travis_k]

I would think timing would be the most obvious thing that would change the sound. Have you ever ridden in/driven another one that sounds like you want yours too? Its possible that it sounded better becasue it was running rough before, and now that everything is working its different.

[miniman39]

I had a Giant Hole in my exhast after the Cat.

I took it to a shop.

132 Dollars later the cat is now hollow so it appears as though it is there. the shop i went to put brand new pipes from there back. They did a great job and i noticed a big difference.

I live in Washington just North of Seattle. Never had any issues with cops pulling me over for anything like emissions.