Important question about exhaust...

Today i was getting ready to put my new shifter in by taking all of the shifter assembly out, it wasn’t hard and i got it all done but when i very first started the first step is to unbolt the exhause from the cat converter and let it hang to the floor. well the bolts to my cat converter were not coming off… so the bolts that connected the exhause to the converter(closest to the back of my car) were the ones that came off cuz i was still able to do the necessary steps for the shifter. my question is tough, when i took the exhaust away from the cat converter i think it was just a gasket or somethin but it had gone to crap, its in three peices and yeah… so i wanted to know how important it is to have this gasket between the cat converter and exhaust… or whatever u would call it. thanks a lot.

You’ll get an exhaust leak without it, I’d get a new one they don’t cost much.

alright what would happen w/ that exhaust leak, where could i get one like… autozone or soethin?

does anyone know where i can get one of these gaskets?? or whatever they are called!?!?

Autozone should have them, yep.