Left side of your vehicle is your left while you're sitting in the driver seat.
Anyway, I crushed my converter the day i bought my truck (getting stupid offroad) back in '05. There are 2 converters, one below each manifold then there is a resonator then a muffler. I replaced both converters with Magnaflow CA emmisions cats, deleted the resonator and replaced the factory muffler with a stainless Magna unit. Started burning oil in '08 which we all know ruins converters, stopped burning oil in '11 and they still work fine.