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FZP said:Chinese cats installed by previous owner from memory. Overrun ingested some of the material from the cats.
For years I used to think that manufacturers who claim warranty was void on new cars if you swapped out the exhaust as a con job. After Phils shennanigans, I'm happy to concede there is merit in the arguement
Jcx said:FZP said:Chinese cats installed by previous owner from memory. Overrun ingested some of the material from the cats.
For years I used to think that manufacturers who claim warranty was void on new cars if you swapped out the exhaust as a con job. After Phils shennanigans, I'm happy to concede there is merit in the arguement
Yikes! OK Thanks. I dont much like any cats!
FZP said:Chinese cats installed by previous owner from memory. Overrun ingested some of the material from the cats.
For years I used to think that manufacturers who claim warranty was void on new cars if you swapped out the exhaust as a con job. After Phils shennanigans, I'm happy to concede there is merit in the arguement
Phil's update confirming route cause from a while backPhil 997 said:Gents , I have finally some updates about my car. All you gen2 owners will be relieved to hear that the issue is not related to the gen2 engine in any way. After dropping the engine and opening up the engine Baz and his team found some very unusual debris in the engine and after analysing the material they found it was from the material used to make cats, so they pulled the 200cell cats from the car and found one had broken up. This metal had then on overrun been sucked back up into the engine and caused the damage .
This would explain how nobody except the best of the best was able to identify the issue. So finally and big thanks to Baz and the Hartech team :worship: :worship: we now know what caused the issue.
It seems the pistons are ok but the liners are damaged the crank and other parts seem to be ok, but I will get a full report soon along with recommended options for rebuild once Baz has had a chance to consider what would be the best for my car .
It seems that the car was before I brought it originally fitted with a custom made in the fareast sports exhaust, when this was fitted it was ridiculously loud and unplesant to listen to, So it was then fitted with cargraphic valved boxes and centre muffler delete kit, but the 200 cell cats from the original fareast custom job were left fitted and its these that have failed and caused the issue. So an interesting and unusual problem that I doubt many of us would have considered has happened , and another lesson learnt about using cheap nasty made in the far east parts on our cars.
I havent got any recourse on this as you would expect when dealing with the Fareast other than to learn from it and when refitting new 200cell cats make sure they come from a reputable source, As the rest of the exhaust is Cargraphic it makes sense to use Cargraphic 200 cell cats on the rebuild.
:grin: I will keep you all updated :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
G2 said:Proof it made it to The porsche museum :thumb:
Insert comments about parking angle here
G2 said:Nearly. They painted the arrows after you parked though :floor: