Changes To Keep An Eye On In The Exhaust Market 2009

In the past Walker had a standard line of converters designed for pre-ODB II vehicles (vehicles made on or before 1995) and a Walker Ultra brand which was not only designed for OBD II vehicles but complied with previous California specs. As a result of new legislation, Walker relaunched its product line for catalytic converters last November to comply with the new regulations.

“Those are the two, the Walker standard converter and the Walker Ultra, which is what we’re going to market for the U. S. and Canada,” says Bill Shutt, emissions control manager for Tenneco’s Walker brand, “For the California market, we’ve introduced the new Walker CalCat product line. And that CalCat product line is compliant with the pre-OBD II and OBD II requirements for the state of California that they implemented in January.

Bosal USA, Inc. now offers wider coverage with its growing manifold catalytic converter line. With over 37 SKUs, Bosal can provide replacement manifold converters for popular domestic and import cars, SUVs, vans, and light trucks from 1982 to 2006. Applications include Chevrolet, Chrysler, Dodge, Ford, GMC, Honda, Hyundai, KIA, Lexus, Lincoln, Mazda, Mercury, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Saturn, Suzuki and Toyota.

Maremont is also expanding its Cherry Bomb line into aftermarket catalytic converters in both universal and direct fit applications. All universal converters will be packaged in graphic retail cartons matching the Cherry Bomb performance exhaust line.