Melted My Cat

[marcus]

was i lucky or what..................well i was on my way back from work...........playing with me boost as you do :winky:

i was going along at about 45 to 50mph and the car just seemed to have no power well im thinking ***** whats up with it now..............still going along i tryed to get more power out of it but it just was not have it! so i pulled over and had alook all round the car to see what was up........ ;) but all looked ok.............so of i go and it seemed ok untill i get to 70mph and i see fireworks comeing out the back of the car so i pull over jump out to see whats up............went to the back of the car had alook in the back-box and it was GLOWING RED so with that i had a look at the main-cat and that was all so GLOWING RED but that was not all! the under try was on Fire i put that out but that was it i had to get RAC out to get me home ;) as it looks like i have melted the main cat :o

[Andy_F]

Wowza, I would have thought it would have taken a bit of work to manage that. Aren't cat's supposed to last for about 8 years? I sure hope its just the cat thats bust and that its easily repairable for you. :D

[Bazza]

me thinks that it doesnt sound good ;)

mmm.....ive got an idea for the JAE barbeque though

[Monster-Mat]

Happened to mine on the supercharged car.....

Dave does steel replacement main cats ....or he was developing one?

[Rob]

that must have been serious heat how did the manifold look? do u have any heat wrap on the manifolds? aslo check the o2 sensors now u might hae destroyed them!

[marcus]

that must have been serious heat how did the manifold look?  do u have any heat wrap on the manifolds?  aslo check the o2 sensors now u might hae destroyed them!

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I can about it now as i have my lexus still........ but at the time it was abit serious heat!! you telling me mate it was like someone had painted it RED, and the inside the backbox was abit RED as well..................i have S/S manifold and that was ok, Turbo and downpipe was all so ok............im going to take the main-cat of the car soon and i will take some Pic's