In about 73 Ford put catalytic converters (a friend called them Catholic perverters
) on a 360 pickup engine.
Incredibly high fuel consumption and unbelievably gutless.
Don
An implement dealership I worked for was having problems with a pickup's performance. After removing the catastrophic converter and welding a straight piece of pipe in it's place, highway fuel mileage increased 2-3 miles per gallon.
In a bit of environmental irony (which seems to becoming more prevalent all the time), one of the state forms we are required to fill out when our local volunteer fire department has fought a wildfire, has about 20 or so possible causes that lead to wildfires. These include lightning, human carelessness, exhaust debris from passing trains, and...you guessed it, cataclysmic converters. And I have seen a few of those instances where this smog eliminating device has resulted in a great amount of pollution discharged into the air. (As well as that detrimental " carbon footprint" the firefighters leave in battling the blazes).