Well i took off my cat this morning and put on my turbo xs mid pipe and this is wat the cat looked like after 30k miles.

Can someone tell me what condition its in?




and also i have a question about my turbo xs midpipe. It didnt come with and gasket and i am having some exhaust leak on the side that goes to the exhasut manifold. Has anyone experienced this?

 

looks like you cat is messed up---but i dont really know how that happened
olddragger

 

hey man im considering the turbo xs midpipe. can you post a sound clip please? i havent found one yet for the turbo xs. i have borla so i dont want to do something too extreme because i heard that some midpipes will make it sound like it has no exhaust piping at all haha.

 

is that a stock cat, and if so what year????

the cat cells look good, but the fact you can see the o2 sensor is just wrong.. bizzare..

beers

 

It should look like this, http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=6665921
Your midpipe should have come with a 3 bolt gasket, mine was made of copper.

 

Here is a recording of the full TurboXS exhaust system, unmodified, idling and revving, http://videos.streetfire.net/video/7...7100921264.htm
and from inside the car, http://videos.streetfire.net/video/5...770123fb56.htm

 

I don't think that is the O2 sensor, really is bizarre, (note spelling)

 

Dmac710, Did your car have a cell?

 

hey i dont really understand how that happened too but the car is an 04. Is there anyway i can order the gasket for the midpipe? And my car did not throw a cel even though it sounds like a lawnmower.

 

This is why some people dont get cels when removing there cats?

 

really i think this is the opposite..

i would hollow out the area above the o2 sensor... leave the block around the o2 sensor intact.

beers

 

That's not an O2 sensor, it looks like a piece of square foam, like a shipping peanut or something. The O2 sensor end looks like a round metal cylinder

The open section in the cat looks like it was designed that way. If it broke the edges would be jagged, not smooth like is was formed/machined. I suppose it could fracture and break free, but where are the pieces then

 

good point but my theory is that it probly melted away? bc there was no pieces to be found haha

 

it won't melt, maybe it was a manufacturing defect? Did you look at it when new?

 

nope never had a reason to look at the cat until i got the midpipe a week ago