Think I killed a cat

[WindeX]

Today in the heat I was driving my car(luckly close to home) and I heard a bang, then my car started sounding like a motor bike and not being able to idle, the cat was glowing red, so I am assuming that it has collapsed, anyone got some ideas on anything else? The cat was a metal cat(metal honeycomb).

[jeffro ra28]

Genuine ones are darn expensive to replace!!
Atleast the one on the Ford Transit van, i think they wanted 1300 for a genuine one.

Aftermarkets ones are 1/4 of the price.

[takai]

Yeah, a normal sort of cat is around $250 to replace. That shoudl be fine for most cars, but you should look into why the cat died in the first place.

[jeffro ra28]

Had trouble with cylinders not firing recently?

The fuel that is unburnt can travel threw the cat and its not good for em.

[HAVABEER]

i thought you ment a meow kind of cat when i first read post.

[Squid]

The nature of a cat is that it should never just go on it's own, it is normally symptomatic of another problem - I would look into that before you just replace it or same thing will happen!

[WindeX]

Yeah I thought when I last replaced it, it was due to being fucked by the last tune(previous owner) but I now assume it is still fucked, fingers crossed it is just my muffler clogged by the last cats contents We shall see, good ole modified cars, from one thing to the next... wouldent trade it for anything but

[SL666]

ive hit 2 possums.. one of them was in braddon.. (local cruise strip)

ive also put a broom through a cat that sucked before

[WindeX]

Alright, what could cause the death of this cat, it was less than 1 month old, it was a metal cat, the car was tuned less than 3 months ago, I am running a wolf ver 4 with stock pretty much everything else. When it was tuned I have a sneaking suspecision that the cat was already dead, could this have stuffed the tuners oxygen readings?

The cat was glowing very red, it was a shitty hot day down here mid thirties and I had been driving it for a bit, not too hard but a bit.