My Berks finally arrived, but is this normal?
quick question, if u shake the whole cat back and forth does the inside wire part shake around at all(from one end to the other if u move it back and forth), or is it totally fixed and not moving? thanks
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oh geeze you guys, those look fine. my goodness. I've gotten some before that were bent nearly in half and they still seal perfectly. They have a flexible gooey material in them that when clamped, will compress and seal no problem. The thread hanging off looks like just a piece stuck on from the manufacturing process of cutting out the piece. I bet you could just yank it off and not think twice about it.
If you mean with the HFCs not installed then no there's no noise
yeah of course i mean when its not installed...when the cat is out of the car if u shake it around, does the metal wire part inside the actual cat shift around or does it stay completely still..
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From: Overland Park, KS
It should sit snug inside the canister. If it doesn't I would suspect the vibrations will cause it to break up. Every cat I've ever removed was snug as a bug in a rug.
tell me about it...been on for a month, i am tuned my a/f is 11.8 rock solid with my vortech kit and i have had zero misfires..idk..
driver side is rattling around too so im sending that one back as well...just posting this up for people to look at with symptoms like car sounding different not having the same growl...hard to explain...got quite a bit quieter still had some power though is what got me, but idk i didn't go make hard pulls or anything so hard to tell if it lost power, ran fine though, just sounded different..berk is great to deal with though let me say and they are fixing the problem..
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Looks to me like they melted. EGT's got too high for them to take and they broke down. I've not seen it turn blue but I've not seen a failure on a 'high flow' cat either..
melted cat
melted cat
its not blue...its just from my flash on my phone....and it def. didn't get too hot...i havent tracked the car or taken it over an hour drive in a long time, or even beat on it...i went to the store came home on the highway made a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gear pull and came into town to realize it just didn't sound the same and then put it away and pulled them yesterday morning..