1st Gen Durango 1998 - 2003 Durango's

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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 05:36 PM
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Nice quote, did you come up with that?
Negative, I've heard it thrown around once or twice.
 
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 05:44 PM
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I'm chiming in just to put my final input as help because this has gone nowhere for a while and will end here.

With the SXT the power driver seat was an option, and evidently yours did not have that option. Once you remove the seat from your vehicle, you will see the connectors are different (yes yours has a connector factory). You will have to also add a new relay in the fuse panel located on the side of your dash. Start by this (see picture below):

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In your current connector you have 12v power leading to the seat already thru the seatbelt reminder so you can just use a volt-meter and find which wire is carrying current, splice into that wire and solder a new wire to carry the power to the new connector, which you will have to get off the donor car.

Really, it's not that hard but will be minorly involving, so it's not a quick 20 minute project for the at home DIY mechanic.
 
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Old Mar 20, 2012 | 09:39 PM
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Exhaust under your Durango is all 2 1/2" I custom made 3" cat backs on my Durango's. Used 3" side to center Cherry Bomb Vortex on my 99...
Put 3" side to center Cherry Bomb Pro on my 03 RT. Both sound great & look great.....
 
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 02:24 AM
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I'm guttin my cat later this week, or replacing it with a piece of pipe and runnin an o2 simulator and just order a Flowmaster 40 series. 3" catback that's dumping right after my rear axle :-) that should sound how I want it too, and give me a slight performance gain
 
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by mikeismadness
I'm guttin my cat later this week, or replacing it with a piece of pipe and runnin an o2 simulator and just order a Flowmaster 40 series. 3" catback that's dumping right after my rear axle :-) that should sound how I want it too, and give me a slight performance gain
This is exactly what I did, except didn't dump it and just ran it out like normal, single out and welded a tip on it.

I cut the CAT out because it was clogged, welded a straight pipe, ran a Fastman O2 simulator for the downstream, and had a Flowmaster 40 series muffler with 3" piping all the way from where the CAT was.

As far as dumping after the rear axle, I'd be worried about it heating up my spare tire at an idle because those exhaust fumes do get extremely hot (hotter than normal) with there being more flow because of losing the CAT. At that point you might as well just run it out the back. It sounds the same anyways just less resonance.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 09:40 AM
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Okay let's stop stealing/ thrashing my thread. I like that diagram for the power seats but is the seat belt reminder have voltage with the ignition off? And does anyone have a photo of the connector for the seats? And since I believe the passenger side seat is power also where do I get power for that one?
 
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 09:41 AM
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I don't have a spare tire so that wouldnt be an issue, but thanks for lookin out! On SUV I'm not a big fan of seeing exhaust exits, I'm not sure why lol. I keep throwin code p0420 and I've done everything but replace the cat. I just ordered the o2 sim 5 minutes ago.
 
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Dony409
Okay let's stop stealing/ thrashing my thread. I like that diagram for the power seats but is the seat belt reminder have voltage with the ignition off? And does anyone have a photo of the connector for the seats? And since I believe the passenger side seat is power also where do I get power for that one?
No the passenger seat does not have power, so no problem there. No, the seat belt reminder does not carry voltage when the ignition is in the Off position, so if that is an issue, you can run a new lead from another 12v supply like the cigarette lighter.

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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 09:55 AM
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Ok thank you! If I took current from this wire would I blow a fuse when I use the seat?
 
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Old Mar 21, 2012 | 11:24 AM
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You shouldn't but just to be safe you could step it up to a 20A fuse, otherwise you should be fine with the factory setup.
 
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