[V8] major issue today with new v8

[Seamus O'Carey]

This seems like a reasonable guess to me as well. It seems likely that the
injector was intentionally disconnected at some point because it was
causing a problem.

-Seamus
On Apr 12, 2012 6:57 PM, "Mendezwerks" <mendezwerks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe the fuel injector stayed open once energized by the ecu signal. The
> cylinder got washed with fuel, excess fuel was pushed out through the
> exhaust valves and into the exhaust/catalytic converter.  After the
> catalytic converter became soaked with fuel and reached operating
> temperature, it caught on fire and melted internally.
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> MendezWerks
>
>
> On Apr 12, 2012, at 8:08 PM, chris brown <sacheldog at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Today i went to get my car at my mechanic. I different guy who i trust a
> lot more than who did the initial swap. He found that one of my cylinders
> had no fuel getting to it due to a injector connection that was not hooked
> up properly. They cylinder had good compression like 200 lbs. when he
> hooked up the connection for the injector the motor began to fire on all 8
> and sounded smooth and seemed like i was in business. As far as i know he
> didnt do anything else. I left the shop with the car and i didnt get about
> a half mile when the car lost all power and it began to run horrible. I
> couldnt get it up to even 40 miles per hour. The CAT light came on and the
> CAT itself got red hot and began dripping a liquid that appears to be oil.
> It was actually so hot that as the liquid dripped from the CAT it was on
> fire. Little balls of fire dripping. It smoked really bad for a while.  I
> just found it odd that the CAT went bad almost at the exact same time he
> found the cylinder problem, al
>  th
> > ough i know its possible.
> > What would cause oil to get into my cat and for it to get so hot that is
> smoked and caught fire?   I was very lucky not to lose the car if i had not
> turned around and took it back to the shop immediately it would have caught
> fire for sure.   I really need advice on this one.
> >  Ive been driving the car for about 2 weeks now occasionaly and i never
> had a CAT issue at all. It actually ran pretty good on the 7 good
> cylinders.  Basically we hooked up cylinder 8 and it smoothed out the
> motor, then almost immediately the cat clogged  and almost caught fire.
> > thanks chris
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