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Old 04-27-2002, 09:22 PM   #1
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Unhappy mrt cat toast after 9 months

well, it looks like there's something wrong with the cat in my headers back exhaust system from mrt. either that or something else fell off in the exhaust in front of the cat and is plugging it.

the system's been on the car since last august and been run maybe 7k miles. will update in the next few weeks when i get a chance to get the stock system swapped back in.

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Old 04-27-2002, 09:25 PM   #2
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How do you know something is wrong? What happened?

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Old 04-27-2002, 09:37 PM   #3
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interesting, my car has been running quite poorly lately too, what are your symptoms?
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Old 04-27-2002, 09:40 PM   #4
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a few days ago, the car started not feeling right powerwise and a strange metallic sound showed up. the exhaust sounds more subdued than normal, too. got it up on a lift today and found, by hitting various parts under the car with a rubber mallet, that something is clanging either in or around the cat. nothing is loose on the outside, so it should be inside the exhaust.
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Old 04-28-2002, 12:09 AM   #5
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froggert - sounds likely the "wafers" which the catylist material could have overheated causing it to break from it's bond to the cat-housing. Should take off the header section and shake to see what comes out the end of the cat, that'll tell you if the cat is busted.
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Old 04-28-2002, 02:32 PM   #6
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I did get word that mrt was redesigning their cats in conjunction with the aid of one of their US distributors. I forget which dealer it was.

The other day I noticed an odd metalic sound whenever I began excelerating. I took a look under the car and one of the spring bolts that attach my catback to the stock cat was missing. This allowed the midpipe to move out of its normal mounting position just slightly but enough for it to vibrate a couple of those heat shielding plates.

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Old 04-29-2002, 03:28 AM   #7
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apparently the mrt cat's had problems which they are now fixing. many people have ceramic coated the headers of the full mrt system which has fixed the problem. you may want to try doing this, but since you are converting the car to stock, just fix it and sell it. mrt now ceramic coats the headers from the factory to fix this problem. you may want to e-mail them about the problem as you are not the only person that has had this problem.
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Old 04-29-2002, 12:58 PM   #8
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it didn't fix my problem...
the coating that is... though, I reciently cleared my CE, about a week ago, and it hasn't come on yet. Which leads me to believe something has changed... what it is, I don't know. I'm going to pull my cat off and see what the deal is. luckily my cat has flanges at both ends so it's easy to check.
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Old 05-10-2002, 10:55 AM   #9
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I got my system re-freshed this week, a new set of exhaust gaskets, rewelded a bracket...
Guy at the shop 'thinks my cat is hollowed' accourding to the sound. Hrm... maybe it's time for a replace ment one. :-/
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Old 05-10-2002, 02:11 PM   #10
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haven't had a chance to pull the mrt system yet, but the cat seems to have fixed itself. will update in a few weeks when i get the headers off and fish around inside to see what's in there.
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