Is there a benefit in just adding this?

[yama1]

Is it worth changing stock cat to a fabspeed bypass to be used with stock muffler. Would it be better to wait for other changes.
(IE exhaust/exchangers)
I have 160k.

Doing some other maintenance and was thinking of this. All stock currently.

Just curious.

[Mike Feinstein]

Without improving the induction, you'll be wasting your money by only installing a cat bypass (Fabspeed or otherwise).

[jtratza]

It may be a waste of money but on mine the exhaust sound got deeper and that made it worth it alone. Actually I took mine off just to get rid of the heat on that side of the engine.

[alf]

Sounds better, weighs less, less heat next to engine, pretty easy to do if your bolts are not rusted in.

I felt an increase in performance when i made this change.

alf

[Eric Coffey]

Makes valve adjustments a lot easier too.

[Por_sha911]

Clogged cats cause other problems. Sounds cool. Runs cooler (temperature). Opens up the system for other upgrades like chips. Just make sure you won't need the $ if something breaks.