Cats going bye bye or battery, what do you think?

 

my cats off and the smell aint that bad. i just heard that its like a 250 dollar ticket if u get caught. But at first u will get a little nausea but thenu'll get used to it? I took mine off cause of exhaust. 3"dp ->3" glasspack-> 3"apexi exhaust. What r u doing to urs?

 

Yup. Probably the cat if you are getting a sulfur smell. They tend to smell like sulfur or rotten eggs. More then likely isn't the battery.





Mike

 

If it's the battery then you should probably see acid leaking from it.

 

< How long has that glasspack been on there????

 

Yea you might check and make sure the air pump is working and the tube isn't leaking, torn, disconnected etc... the air pump is really important especially on the "tri-cat" design the rx-7 has to keep things burning instead of building up and overheating the cat... no air no fire, you know the drill.

 

"oooo that smell, can't ya smell that smell"

 

Pretty much what I figured, it's not a constant thing and I've not done much to this car yet. Replaced the drivers seat last night so I'm actually sitting up while driving and did a TPS adjustment. Idles so much better now and it seems throttle response is not as THERE or NOT.



I'll get to looking at it next weekend as I'm heading to Broken Arrow, OK for my grandmothers 80th birthday this weekend. Not taking the 7 as it's somewhat untested and it's pretty high mileage



Also smelling 90 weight oil so I've got a leak somewhere. The shifter bearings are shot to heck so that's probably a part of it.



Annnd the clutch makes a lovely rattling and griding kinda noise when it's put in. Hey it was a $500 car what did ya expect?

 

Its been on for about 3 weeks

 

< I dont think it will last you very long.