Anyone try the JC Whitney Catalytic Converters?

[El_Gato]

Howdy, seen plenty of threads on here about cats, and the usual answer is Walker or Magnaflow. Welp, I have a 2001 4.0 I've been working on, and I just took off the cats cause I'm replacing the exhaust mani and oil pan / rear main seal. Aaand the cats look to be some weird aftermarket ones, and are falling apart. SO, gotta replace them too. The Walkers went up $90 the past 2 days on Rockauto (they were only like $340 on April 9th), so I'm looking at the JC Whitneys for mid $300's. They say "Made in North America", and have good reviews on JC Whitney's site (which is reviews for ALL of their cats, not just these for my wrangler). But havent found a single thread that mentions them on a wrangler. I really don't want to spend $450+ on cats, I've already put at least $2k into this project (parts only, including an ax15 swap w/ clutch and flywheel, most gaskets and juices, all the suspensionand , injectors, ignition....etc). still haven't even been able to drive it since taking it apart. And I haven't even looked at the 3rd cat yet.... anyways, JC Whitney Cats? Meh? Nah?

 

[Link]

I’d use them. I bet they are all made in the same place

 

[hosejockey61]

JC Whitney is still around?

 

[cliffish]

JC Whitney is still around?

I thought the same

 

[El_Gato]

JC Whitney is still around?

Literally my first reaction lol. And then they still make parts under their name in "North America"?! Not sure how far north, but that's slightly impressive that they're not made in China (nothing against name-brand stuff made in China, but the relabeled off-brand stuff can be questionable quality)

 

[Moglocker]

JC Whitney is still around?

That’s what I said,remember the catalog(lol)

 

[hosejockey61]

I used JC Whitney a lot on my CJ5 in 1989

 

[TheBoogieman]

This thread just reminded me, my JC Whitney catalog is 50 years old now. I need to order a new one.

 

[Weasellee]

Clear the inside of the cats you have and run it.

 

[TJ Jim]

JC Whitney is still around?

Dang I was wondering the same thing. Thought about searching the internet to see!

 

[TJ Jim]

Just did a search for the cat and it sent me to carparts.com?

 

[TheBoogieman]

My catalog is in the mail.

https://www.jcwhitney.com/category/auto-parts/

 

[Moglocker]

My catalog is in the mail.

https://www.jcwhitney.com/category/auto-parts/

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