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Old May 19, 2008 | 12:08 PM
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Interesting intermittent exhaust restriction - disintergrating conveter...

More of a point of interest that a specific question - I just got my Sport Coupe out of the garage and back on the road. Other than a dead battery, everything was ready to rock, and it ran fine Friday night and Saturday morning on the way to work. However, on the way home I noticed the car would not pull at all on the topend - it seems to be fuel or air starved, I was seriously considering the possibility that the secondaries were stuck shut or something along those lines. At one point I hammered the throttle down for a second to keep diagnosing what exactly was going on, and happend to catch out my rear-view mirror a puff of black smoke, and then something rolling down the road behind me. Car instantly picked up all its missing power, and the exhaust note was back.

I've had a converter rattle for a while, I guess its finally coming apart. Since them, I've had several more instances over the weekend where it would get plugged up, doggy, and quiet, and then blow some more chunks out and be back to itself. Guess its time to replace that converter with a straight section.
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