Acceleration = Bad Smell
When I beat up my 2004 Mazda 6 a bit (nothing ridiculously excessive ), I get a rotten egg smell, just a fowl oder. From my old car I had it was the catalytic converter. Same deal? Is it something I should really worry about?
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Sounds like the cat to me.
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Now, is it something I can live with? or will it be dangerous to the car? And what kind of converter would you recommend? I kind of just want to slap a magnaflow cat on it, will atleast give it a bit of sound.
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Can you live with it? Sure, for a little while, but a failed cat will at the very least make you fail emissions. Go ahead and go with the Magnaflow unit, it'll get better flow than stock and probably last longer too.
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Luckily I don't have an inspection until Feb of 2011, oddly enough I just had my inspection 2 weeks ago and it passed. 208 dollars at Autozone for a new Cat, yay... Now the question is, there is a Passenger Side/Driver Side/Front/Back Cat thing, are there more than 1 Converters? And how would I go abouts finding which one isn't working? Or am I better off taking it into a Mazda Dealer and having them slap the Magnaflow on.
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6 cylinder has two in the front and one in the back. I know, I need to replace both of my fronts after my engine blew and dumped a couple of quarts of oil into them.
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So would it be in my best interests to just do all of them or specifically target one of them?
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Originally Posted by AHan
(Post 104003)
6 cylinder has two in the front and one in the back. I know, I need to replace both of my fronts after my engine blew and dumped a couple of quarts of oil into them.
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Wouldn't eliminating the front cats throw OBD codes?
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Well it looks like I will have my mechanic look into it and just get a mechanics view on everything. Hoping it's just the rear cat and I can just throw on a magnaflow and fix that up easy.
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