Smelly exhaust
08 August 2002, 01:56 PM
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After a run my exhaust smells like somethings died in a eggy kinda of way 
Ive got a magnex backbox on a my99, but both cats are still in. Has I guess the centre cat got contaminated? Or is it normal for them to pong like this. More importantly if a cat has failed, will it strangle the power even more than it does when working correctly?
Ive got a magnex backbox on a my99, but both cats are still in. Has I guess the centre cat got contaminated? Or is it normal for them to pong like this. More importantly if a cat has failed, will it strangle the power even more than it does when working correctly?
08 August 2002, 02:01 PM
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Cats stink they always have, its a foul smell, hate being stuck in traffic behind a car with cats in yuk
Warranty item to be fixed then 
08 August 2002, 03:12 PM
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...except the cats aren't the thing that make the smell, it's simply the suplphur that used to be in the fuel. So even if the cats were working, there shouldn't be a sulphury smell.
So, barking/tree/wrong, I think.
Has it done this for more than one tank? If not, I'd run the tank as low as poss & then use a different fuel, or at least from a different station - just to check that isn't it.
To check the cats, just go to an MOT testing station.
So, barking/tree/wrong, I think.
Has it done this for more than one tank? If not, I'd run the tank as low as poss & then use a different fuel, or at least from a different station - just to check that isn't it.
To check the cats, just go to an MOT testing station.
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09 August 2002, 10:16 AM
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lol thx for the dead animal in pipe comments 
Jake I would love to, but MOT hassles give me doubts. I might do SS downpipe though, as I hear it will still pass with centre cat in.
Its weird thou I gave it a long hard blast last night, and there was no smell at all.
Jake I would love to, but MOT hassles give me doubts. I might do SS downpipe though, as I hear it will still pass with centre cat in.
Its weird thou I gave it a long hard blast last night, and there was no smell at all.
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