Miracle
"Shall not be infringed"
After getting gas yesterday, the car sat for a while. After getting in after work and letting it warm up by driving around a bit, I got on it pretty good.
Boost gauge jumped up to its regular 10.5, 11 psi, and about a second or 2 into boost in second gear, I heard a really loud POP. Thinking the worst immediately after, i looked in the rear view, and wouldn't ya know it....
SMOKE. LOTS, and LOTS of SMOKE!!!
But wait... no oil pressure warning light on the gauge... the car still runs smooth, it still revs, and oil pressure hold steady. But the exhaust note has changed. Sounds like I cut all the exhaust tubing after the manifolds off and just left it. It really drones and acts like there no cats/mufflers now.
A few weeks ago I pulled and replaced an oxygen sensor on the drivers side... it looked like this...
It doesn't look like actual PHYSICAL damage does it? It's the sensor that sits inside the cat... so my question...
Isn't this indicative of these cats getting WAY, WAY too hot? And yesterday's POP and smoke was a direct effect of a cat failing or what? I'm kinda guessing here....
Boost gauge jumped up to its regular 10.5, 11 psi, and about a second or 2 into boost in second gear, I heard a really loud POP. Thinking the worst immediately after, i looked in the rear view, and wouldn't ya know it....
SMOKE. LOTS, and LOTS of SMOKE!!!
But wait... no oil pressure warning light on the gauge... the car still runs smooth, it still revs, and oil pressure hold steady. But the exhaust note has changed. Sounds like I cut all the exhaust tubing after the manifolds off and just left it. It really drones and acts like there no cats/mufflers now.
A few weeks ago I pulled and replaced an oxygen sensor on the drivers side... it looked like this...
It doesn't look like actual PHYSICAL damage does it? It's the sensor that sits inside the cat... so my question...
Isn't this indicative of these cats getting WAY, WAY too hot? And yesterday's POP and smoke was a direct effect of a cat failing or what? I'm kinda guessing here....