Re:Wow

[cobram@channel1.com (Cobram)]

 johkar@teleport.com writes:                                       

 JK> How difficult is this to do?  Will the honeycomb interior easily and
 JK> completely come out with a big screw driver and hammer?  I would think
 JK> getting it all out could be a problem.  Any idea why your emissions
 JK> went down with the cat guts (heh, heh) removed?


     All cats aren't created equal. On the 5KS, the kitty 
     committed suicide and lodged itself in the bends of
     the rear exhaust pipes. It was periodically stalling out
     on corners, then died in the middle of nowhere at
     night. I removed the oxygen sensor with some vice grips
     and made it home, a bit loudly but sans towhook. So the
     car did most of the work for me. I don't remember the exact
     numbers on the emissions test, but I would always just
     squeak by before the kitty surgery, but afterwards 
     it passed with at least 50% margin on almost all counts.

     I helped a friend remove the guts on his 528? WMB, and
     like everything on those WMB's, it was a pain in the ass.
     Instead of a nice breakable ceramic like material, the damn
     thing was held together with some metallic honeycomb setup,
     took about 3 hours with assorted tools, including a
     6 foot long steel icebreaker. BMW=Break My Walnuts

... The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
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