Paco664

these 2 keep me safe while i sleep.....

pookie in the back.. 105lbs of love...
dexter *(aka. mr bitey) 125lbs.... and produces more noxious emissions than both our cars combined....... *(the "i'm innocent" look is because that fat ******* just broke a board on the fence trying to eat the neighbors cat.....)

alnielsen

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A dogs version of cat delete.
If the cat still has it's claws, I would feel sorry for your dog.

Paco664

he isn't agile enough to actually catch one....... don't know what would happen if he actually caught it...

the cats will drop into the patio area and then when he comes barreling after them they jump back up onto the 7' fence..... and he bangs into it....

both of them are really sweet dogs but dexter was abused by his first owners... i rescued him 2 years ago... he weighed 70lbs on his full frame... he has gained 55lbs and has turned into a love baby.... *(but he is uber protective of my wife... he has no problems with visitors EXCEPT if they try to go upstairs into our bedroom...)

paimon.soror

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Good on you sir!

I got my little guy from a breeder, but now that I have him and have such an attachment, I want my next best friend to be rescued. I can't imagine how I would feel if my little guy was abused.

alnielsen

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OK, this tangent has gone on long enough. Back to the cars.

200.mph

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how did this thread go from cons of cat delete to treehuggers, dogs and cats? lol

-_- just.gimme.my.ticket

a.d.d 200mph
i have it too

Paco664

i don't have ad...... LOOK A SQUIRREL!!!!

twistedwankel

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I recently got a free cat from Mazda as a replacement. It costs about $1100 and apparently only lasts about 65k miles before it melts and plugs up?

I had purchased a slightly used highflow cat with echo chamber some time ago from a member just for this purpose of saving money and saving the new cat for good. He must have run rich at the track?

I got them changed out a few weeks ago. For 20 minutes I had the best of both worlds. Better throttle response at rpm, better sound and no codes. Then the second O2 sensor tripped and made me chuckle. The icon looks like a piston engine. The cat still works but it's just not as good as the original one BECAUSE it has fewer bigger holes that are shorter. Oh, and it sounds cooler.

The only down side is now I won't know if there is another CEL if the car doesn't run poorly.

I live in FL where there is no emissions testing because it's only 90 miles across and the wind blows E and W daily with gusto. They cancelled the testing years ago as just a plain waste of money AND of course the corruption like they had in CT when I lived there.

So I drive the RX8 <4000 miles per year mostly highway and autocrossing as I have 3 old stock cars and a bike.

My 86 mustang vert has 4 new cats and is much louder than my stock RX8 and I average 20mpg. My 81 bike has no cats, is also loud but gets 40-50mpg @ 70mph.

My >2 ton 93 Crown Vic, airport car, has a single original exhaust but gets 25-26mpg @ 75mph.

Which one is worse for the environment? You be the judge. We only drive one at a time as we are retired. I used to get 10% better gas mileage before FL mandated alcohol in the gas a few years ago and charges us more for it now.

I will put the brand new cat back onto the RX8 right before I sell it, some day, and give the high flow to a fellow racer for free simply because it runs so much better and make him smile

RIWWP

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Incorrect.

You can melt a cat in a few hundred miles of failing engine components or an incorrect tune. Just people tend to reach this point after about 65,000 miles. It's like saying that your oil filters only last 3,000 miles because that is when you do your oil changes. Sure, most of them only go 3,000 miles, but that doesn't give the oil filter a 3,000 mile lifespan.