[Vwdiesel] No diesel - melted cat!

[James Hansen]

DO NOT breath the dust from the cat Jon.

If you rod it out, do it wet.

It's a ceramic media impregnated with platinum.  Bad for you, and don't 
drill worth shit, unless you are using a rock drill.

I'm for a replacement pipe, even temporary.

Our Passat has none, 2-1/2" pipe from the turbo down,  and a single 
flowmaster at the end. Very highly recommended.

High EGT melts the cat, or excesive carbon in the exhaust while on full 
stomp.
-james

jonathan hoehl wrote:
> Wanted to post this here because I've always seen great ideas - 1993 VR6 
> Passat catalytic converter insides melted together, so no flow.  Cut a hole 
> in the backside just before running torch out of oxygen.  Drilled three 
> 3/8ths all the way thru ceramic so there's some flow.  Best we could do - 
> smoked the drill.  Tried electric hammer drill with steel bar (I know, bad 
> on the head pipe) but that didn't do anything.  Drove car hard (very loud! 
> sorry neighbors) and sprayed the garden hose inside the hole in cat - didn't 
> seem to help break-things-up any...
> 
> Any Great Ideas?
> 
> Jon
> 
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