Burnsy

Hi Guys

I normally post in the UK forum but as everyone is asleep in the UK and I'm desperate to find out what people think I'll post on here as well.

I'm hoping you are all going to reassure me everything is ok but I have a bad feeling that's not going to happen.....

Whilst driving back from the F1 in Germany 2 weeks ago I was overtaking a van on the Motorway and suddenly lost all power, sparks coming from rear of the car (it was midnight so looked pretty impressive) cruised into the hard shoulder and had a look under the car. The Catalytic Converter was glowing red hot. I had the car recovered to my house and since receiving a new Berk High Flow CAT and a Mugen Manifold managed to get the old bits off and the new bits fitted yesterday.

As expected the old CAT was ruined, all the honeycomb stuff was rattling around inside and completely broken up.

Now since I broke down I have not started the car once and it has been sat on my drive waiting for the new bits to go on. I tried starting it for the first time last night, lights on dash come on, press button, click click click, Nothing..............

I'm hoping it's just a flat battery since it has been sat for a while, but reading through other peoples CAT woes I'm yet to find anyone else to have had such a dramatic failure! At the time I put it down to 1000 miles in some pretty consistant heat but is it possible it has caused more damage??

Look forward to your opinions/advice guys....... kind of.

Burnsy

Well RAC came and confirmed my fears..... Not the battery.

He tried to crank the engine and it was locking up. Getting it recovered to a garage on Monday but I'm assuming dropped valve or something??

I know very little when it comes to engines so what do you guys think.....

Could it be terminal?

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freq

I too would have assumed just a weak battery.

Good luck and I still don't believe it's more than just a CAT and a battery.

Burnsy

Well it seems it is a new engine job guys! I'll tell you more once I see the car tomorrow morning but its apparently in a pretty bad way!!

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Reckon

Yeah, it seems that the underlying issue might have caused the issues with the CAT, but the cat alone wouldn't have done that. More than likely something broke in the engine and metal pieces came out the exhaust (perhaps even an exhaust valve) busting up the cat on the way out.

Keep us updated on what they find!!