someotherguy
Truly Awesome
One thing I absolutely miss is the smell of non-catted exhaust. I ran my '94 like that for quite a while. Before I went nuts with 400's, I was nuts with.. you might have guessed.. 60's Chevy trucks. Ran a small salvage operation for those too, in the 90's.Mount your O2 sensor in the same location. I see no issues.
I did something similar to a 1995 V6 4.3L S10 but I came to regret it. It ran fine, but it stunk... it smelled like a 60's Chevy (think "unburned hydrocarbons") and stunk up the garage, wherever. The smell wasn't a big deal but I didn't like it (people wondered "What's wrong with the truck?") and the wife didn't like the smell (unhappy wife unhappy life).
I eventually found a new OE cat and re-installed.
Late model stuff with cats smell awful. Under normal running conditions yeah, no real odor, but when they mash on it on the highway.. ugh. Burning hair/ammonia smell.
Richard