I should ask "Anyone who doesn't have one installed, OR would be willing to let me borrow it for a dyno test?"

I'll give ya your gas money and feed you if I could meet up with you, swap my cat for your midpipe. Another option, I suppose, to check the status of my car's cat would be this: Pull MY Cat off, install on your car, then dyno your car. Again, I'd cover all expenses.

If I'm right, and the cat is clogged, your car would suffer no ill-effects (once the cat was swapped back) - and would provide me GOOD DATA to convince Mazda to replace my car's cat.


Something like that, anyway.

 

so you're saying your mazda dealership is not working with you to resolve a power loss issue?

 

Yes. That's what I'm saying. They said "EVERYTHING tests out 'within specs' we have NO idea what to even fix!"

:-/

It's up to me.

 

damn dmp, didn't you have problems with the cat before???

 

I did. That time they took great care of me. Now they say they can't find anything wrong with the current. One problem may be that it's hard to see the front of the cat, due to the piping attached.

Either way I'm behind a rock here...going to have to spend MY MONEY to get them to do what it takes, I suppose.

A lemon-law attorney said they take cases when the car has had FIVE warranty repairs during the warranty-period, or has had 30 days (cumulative) in the shop for warranty work.

I'm at the 5-repair mark, easily. I'm probably close to the 30-day mark, too.

 

ANYBODY loan me their car? You'd get a free dyno out of it? Just have you use MY car's cat is all.

:D

 

Want to borrow my hi flow and pipe...it's a brand new CAT???

 

You'd need to buy a manifold to Cat gasket $10ish.....

 

dmp, I think it would be just as cheap to offer to pay someone $100 for their cat. I'm sure there's quite a few people with them available.

 

I'd love to, Dan


Sql - I don't want a cat laying around. I could have a test-pipe made for just a bit over $100; but the idea is to show Mazda "another OEM cat as replace ment could fix my car's issues". If all I can get is an after-market hi-flow, I'll try it!

 

Looks like you're my only shot, Dan - can't find a local cat off another RX8 to borrow for a dyno. You going to be around anytime soon? If not, we'll try again in april.

 

I have to work tomorrow...call me in the PM and we'll work something out