Actually, that thing is actually more of a resonator than anything. A test pipe is literally a straight pipe. Get a magnaflow high flow cat. I got one off ebay for like $50 shipped, and had it welded into my exhaust piping.
what a scam of an ad. they explain and even have diagrams of how a cat works, an din the diagram, it clearly shows the honeycomb in the exhaust path, then the picture shows that you can see straight through the "cat".
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Yes, there's a "Replacement for Displacement". Its called Volumetric Efficiency.
hi flow cats will pass emissions. but to be sure, you can buy a can of "You will pass SMOG" and you pour it in your gas tank with a half full tank then get it smogged, and it will pass no matter what