Re: Catalytic converter length..?
Factory cat = 19 3/4" from flange to end.
I've already been done this road and just pulled everything off to come up with a different solution. I had the exact same setup you have. The issue was that the JSM downpipe ends in the factory location. Apparently most 3" high flow CAT's are shorter than factory so you end up a couple inches short. Not impossible to fix, but my entire exhaust is stainless steel so I didn't want to just build some kind of adapter as a fix.
My advice is to bolt it all up and measure where you're at.
Test pipe = 15" from flange to end.