That's a cop out someone makes when they have no legitimate data to back up their statements and/or not enough understanding to explain them.
Its not a cop out, I would need to show you diagrams, mathematic figures.
Easy for you to discredit it, but I notice you have no legitimate data or understanding to discredit me either.
I work in the exhaust industry, have a background in mechanical engineering. The rest of that post I did my best at explaining what is going on, and why it produces more power.
If you don't believe it, that is fine, I don't stand to loose anything by people not listening or heeding my advise. I guess it doesn't matter that I fix a lot of these screwed up systems, all to often a car that does not run right, has no CEL or anything, but just hesitates, has no real power, surges, doesn't idle right, gets bad gas mileage. They bring it to me, its got some oversize exhaust system with no cat. Put a cat on it, reset the computer, issues go away. Customer is happy, sends me all his friends. I guess it doesn't matter that my buddies Grand National produces more power with a cat than without. I guess it doesn't matter that my '87 Turbocoupe produces more power than its mods say it should. My setup, which includes a 3" high flow cat, with stock injectors, stock fuel pressure, stock intercooler, 3" cold air intake with cone filter and full shroud, is producing 230 rwhp, though by the hardware, excluding the cat, I shouldn't be able to produce more that 215 - 220 with my setup.