[s-cars] Re: S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9

[Larry C Leung]

Krazy Krasusky wrote:

> The guys @ NEA suggested my cats may be clogged if I'm seeing red 
> manifolds
> (duh).  However when the system was dropped they said they "peeked 
> in /
> shook them around" and all seemed fine.  Not sure I'm convinced.  
> Prior to
> the Mihnea tune I used to run Mobil, and *always* got cooked egg 
> smell (aka
> cooked kitties and / or high sulfur gas?).  Leaning toward the fact 
> they're
> clogged, but when I've clogged cats before the car got silent and 
> lost
> significant power.  
> 
I'd second that. My GTi ended up with a clogged kitty, absolutely NO
power, although it idled smoothly. 

Did NEA do a flow test with compressed air? 

I'd imagine only a partial clog would allow the car to run with adequate 
power, but I'd imagine Mihnea tune would already stress out at least
a stock exhaust B/C he told me that I'd get better spool up with my
stock exhaust but no greater peak power with a Stromung. Just thinking
out loud.

LL - NY