I got me some "free" headers tonight. I was driving and for the past few weeks my car has been having issues running and making boost. I was basically getting hardcore Compressor Surge. Well tonight it got so bad that the car would hardly run. I had already checked out everything I could think of, but then I figured I would drop the midpipe and see if more of my Pre-cat had maybe broken off and was somehow blocking the cat. Sure enough when I pulley off my midpipe I was greeted by this:




I looked up into my exhaust manifold and I can now see CLEARLY the 02 sensor and the runners off the block. Thats really my story as to how I got some free headers. Now I dont think Im going to actually go out and buy headers because mine is hollowed out. lol

 

good stuff

 

looks like a mini bee hive

im pretty sure thats not good lol

 

No I only have 1 cat left in the car now. The first one took its self out.

 

WTF.... that's weird...

 

That's crazy! I have knocked out the inside of a cat on purpose, but I have never seen one just come out like that before.

 

i heard on the news that the cat material is worth a lot now and theives are stealing the cats off of suvs and such because they are easy to access.

but ya, that's weird that it would come out on the stock manifold. i can see if it were an aftermarket, but stock!?

 

I just threw a P0420 CEL, so I am hoping this happens to my headers as well.

 

wow, where have you been? i remember you had purchased a greddy kit long back (when you were a mod, lol)

 

lol, I'll just put it this way.. 07 was a bad year.

 

what is that?

 

x2?

 

^^ x3 it looks scary!

 

High EGT's will easily cause your cat material to become brittle. This happens alot with turbo cars that have precats. It's caused by lean AFR's under partial throttle boosting situations.

 

Looks like your car took a Poop!

 

How did a cell phone get in ur midpipe


My father has a shop and when he gets junk cars me and my brother torch out the cats and sell them for like 175 a peice! Easy money.

 

Whats what? Thats what the inside of your catalytic converter looks like

 

Looks like a piece of a cat substrate

 

be prepared to see this happen more often...i have a feeling it has a lot to do with all the ethanol in the gas nowadays...ive talked to a few mechanics and its becoming a widespread problem. If I remember correctly there was a member on here stating something similar not to long ago also sayin somethin about the gas quality affecting cats as well

 

if it werent for all of these tree hugging hippies, we wouldnt have to worry about running cats at all. move to florida.