Ok i bet you guys are sick and tired of me so here........ i was driving home yesterday. and the car started chugging again and it got even worse so i pulled over and me and my friend looked under the car and the CAT was CHERRY RED. so i guess i need a new or can i clean it out like my friend said. i am just going to replace the whole exhaust with a hi-flow cat and a cherry bomb muffler. like my friend kyle has on his 88 beretta.

Cant go wrong with a $250 car!!!

my step dad just blew the one on mine open before i had the car, right now i would say it's a pretty high flow cat haha


"I live my life a quarter mile at a time..." "for those ten seconds or less I'm free"

but the sucky thing is my parents are uptight they wont let me take the thing off or let my GF's dad punch the thing out

NOT EVEN FOR ONE FCKING WEEK TILL I GET PAID!!!!!!

thats crap... just stab it while it's red with a knife, then take the contents to any place that recycles metal and you'll get some $$$ for it, dunno how much, but that stuff has platinum in it, and other nice metals, so ya, that soemthing to tell them... and besides that, you can tell them it's that, or you can blow the engine to pieces and have to replace the car instead of the cat... and that if that is the case, its their fault and they should have to pay for the new car.... that might striaghten them out

btw 250 isn't bad, i bought a nice truck for that but then i got a chrysler nyr for 184, and my sunbird was free


"I live my life a quarter mile at a time..." "for those ten seconds or less I'm free"

Tyler- You can get a universal one at a "muffler shop" for around $180 installed. Stay away from Midas or the like unless you want to pay top dollar, or get a whole new system.

Keep the cat, though. If you live in a state where you have inspection or emissions testing, you will definately not pass. I've had to replace the cat on my cav twice. Once when I got it, and the second time I had the whole system replaced and decided to get it all done at once rather than spliced and pieced together to save a good 2 year old cat.

You might want to replace your O2 sensor after you get the new cat as well, its likely that the old one is fouled out and causing your car to run rich, which clogs up the converter.

Good luck.


-Daryl Scott
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the funny thing is i just changed the o2 sensor on friday