AIR System questions?

[Ozruss90]

Originally Posted by grahambehan

The purpose of Air injection is to speed up catalyst light off ie get them up to working temperature. Since you have watson headers, do you have cats? When we designed these headers the retention of the air check valves was to keep the systems on the car functional and pass a cursory vusual inspection. If you do not have cats air injection is unnecessary.
Graham

It appears to have cats on the Borla system that is on it. I don?t need to pass any emission tests for ongoing registration. So given that it is pushing exhaust past the check valves on both sides, can I just block them off.