For a while my cat has been rattling, and finally last night something crazy happened.

I pulled out of my development and suddenly lost all power in my engine. For the rest of the trip back, the car couldn't go above 3k rpm or 40mph on it's own.

There wasn't any exhaust coming through my muffler either and then today it became apparent that all exhaust and some moisture was coming out of the gasket area around my cat.

I've had an exhaust leak before and the power lost wasn't nearly this significant!

Do you think a new cat could solve this? All other exhaust components looked fine.
Any thoughts?

 

omg, you just explained whats wrong with your effin car man!!!! The fcukin cat is clogged/bad, get a new one or or have an exhaust shop install a sleave.

 

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Easy tiger.

He is right tho. Just get that cat checked out if you do not know what your looking for and maybe purchase a new one.

 

Thats normal driving 3k RPM and only 40mph but what do you mean on its own is that thing a smart car or is your cruise control fukd up .


sounds like you have my friend a custom low flow cat right there

 

It's a magnaflow cat (just got it in august and had tons of problems) and a test pipe is on the way to completely replace it (since i don't want to afford a while new cat)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18MOBBER &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Thats normal driving 3k RPM and only 40mph but what do you mean on its own is that thing a smart car or is your cruise control fukd up .


sounds like you have my friend a custom low flow cat right there </TD></TR></TABLE>
in regards to that.....the engine did not have the power to go any higher rpms or mph.


thaks guys! i didn't really know cats could get blocked like that

 

Fix the cat.

Let us know if your car starts to behave

 

if you heard rattling in the cat area, i would say the cat was breaking up and finally broke up enough to clog it.

 

this WAS a new magnaflow cat when i bought it...
now it has that ball of death in there

 

ok you have three options in this situation...1 buy a new cat.2buy a new test pipe... 3 take your old cat out and take a large pipe stick the pipe in the hole of the cat then pound it though the screens in the cat remove any screen peices that are loose try to get out as much of the insides of that cat as possible reinstall and vualah you have a new custom high flow cat LOL! and i would be a bit concerned about your water in your pipes check coolant levels !

 

already replaced the cat with a test pipe right before i posted that.

that's just for entertainment purposes lol