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So this guy, who sounds like Tony Soprano, has a CTS-V. He wants to throw a big turbo on it. In preparation, he adds a new catback, some fuel and ignition management, etc. He then invites his Lambo owning friend over to video tape him starting it up. Upon start up he proceeds to blow the cats out of the car. Nice! And the last comment of the video is classic.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 am
Blowing the catalytic converters had nothing to do with adding a turbo. The turbo wouldn’t be spooling with the engine idling (especially one that large) and wouldn’t have produced any boost. Now the changes to the engine management on the other hand…
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
Forced Induction 101, read the post again. It sayd in preparation for the big turbo, he adds a new catback…
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 am
@Forced Induction 101: per the entry on the site, it says in prep for the turbos, unfortunately the submitter on digg paraphrased it incorrectly.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Well he fucked up somewhere…
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 am
@Max, yep, my guess is the car was running extremely rich after he messed with the fuel system. I can’t imagine how much gas it takes to blow cats up, but apparently he found the proper mix.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:41 am
The only thing that makes this guy sound like Tony Soprano is the “F” word.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 am
Digg front page. We made it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 am
Uh, check the spark plug wire order, sounds like he has two spark plug wires crossed.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 am
I have to disagree with the above that ‘The last comment is the best’
I believe the best comment to be when he first comes out of the garage.
‘That dust cannot be good for you…’
‘I know, that’s why I got a beer!’
As for a comment on the video, I know nothing about cars so I will assume that is bad.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 am
mad props for good taste in music…
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 am
Catback? That means it still has stock converters on it. Is this guy dumb? The converters should have been removed to begin with. Add larger injectors and fuel pump, and you would be home free.
IDIOT has no clue what he is doing except how to send money.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
I love idiots who insist on modifying Detroits plastic computerized junk to make it faster. When they screw up, then its easy to ad the label of dork, followed by DAAAAH!
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Appears to be running just a *little* rich. (e.g. dumping huge amounts of raw fuel which eventually collects on the cats where it’s burning.) Agree, too, that two plugs were probably reversed during reinstall.
I can’t understand why he’d continue to run it while it’s clearly doing damage, other than for the laughs.
But look on the bright side. When he finally gets the fuel management sorted out, it’ll breathe a lot better with those cats opened up. Emissions test is going to be exciting, though.
New license plate idea: “CatEatr”
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I once crossed a couple of plug wires on an 80’s Chavelle (SP?). Blew the ends of the muffler right off. Scared the shiznite outta everyone, including myself
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
[...] is he screwed up. Upon start up he proceeds to blow the catalytic converters out of the car. Nice! read more | digg story Permalink Trackback Comments [...]
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
“I can’t understand why he’d continue to run it while it’s clearly doing damage, other than for the laughs.”
He’ll just buy another if it gets trashed. His friend “drives a lambo” if you believe that = money to burn.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
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January 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm
He should scoop that stuff up instead of throw it out, as it’s either got palladium ($380 oz), or platinum ($1,500 oz) in it. He can then repair his car with the money.
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
first thing you do is open up the exhaust.
figures he’s from jersey!
January 3rd, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Think about it, if you had just done all these mods and on the first start saw things flying out the exhaust, you would IMMEDIATELY shut down and inspect it like you guys said. So obviously the cats were damaged on purpose to open them up (I used to do it to my vette’s by removing them and running a crowbar through them then shaking)for better airflow. This is not an accident, just a pretty cool vid of CAT detruction. Also Tony while there is some precious metals there, most of it is ceramic.
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I hope they collected that Cat metal.
I hear that stuff is really rare and expensive.
January 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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January 3rd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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January 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
@norm and jack - LS1s are coil on plug, and even though he relocated them it’s still got one coil per cylinder, none of that distributor bullshit. Pretty hard to fuck up. I’m pretty sure if he can install an AEM low impedance injector driver and still have the car run, he’s not stupid enough to mix up the coil order.
@Frank - You can still make plenty of power with cats. As long as your AFRs are tuned correctly, the cats will work fine. High flow cats lose at most 8whp, most of the time less.
And if cat material was rare/expensive, I’m pretty sure every vehicle on the market wouldn’t have them.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
[...] is he screwed up. Upon start up he proceeds to blow the catalytic converters out of the car. Nice! read more | digg [...]
January 3rd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Just buy an AMG
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Nice vid.lol.
Some stupid remarks made here also. shit happens when you play with Gig P Toys.
As for the platinum in the cats. YES they have some. and Its VERRRRY little. Not enough to cash in. Its only misted on the ends of the cats and liners. Not a complete piece.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Just something I noticed. Before he starts the car up, part of the catalyst is already on the ground behind each exhaust pipe. So I’m assuming that he started it up once and heard it start exploding. Then shut it off. And that’s when the video came in for the next start up. Could be wrong, but that’s what I see.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 pm
so….for the amount of money that he just wasted, he could have gotten himself AT LEAST a Porsche Boxster S, which would actually beat a Vette - at least on a track. Probably not so much on straight line acceleration (BORING), or the Tesla Roadster.
Yay for us - more money for us. Yippee - a new couch and free TV for a year. Sucks to be on his team.
January 4th, 2008 at 10:06 am
funny… If i had to take a guess.. too much fuel def. (look at the black smoke) .. but mostly crazy timing retard…needs to set up his ignition control and fuel. or better yet, get on a dyno to tune everything.However, as stated before he most likely has money to burn it the motor goes POP!
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January 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I made this vid. Jeff mixed up two of the wires for the coils when he relocated them. The turbo IS NOT on the car yet. He could care less about the cats, or the motor since a new motor is going in, and the cats will be replaced by the downpipe/Y-pipe. The car ran for about 20 seconds when he first started it after rewiring everything, and thats when the cats first came apart (you can see them on the ground at the very beginning of the vid). We were extremely surprised how quickly they blew apart. Never would have thought that could happen so fast, but believe me, IT DID. Check my other vids on YouTube by Turbo50Mike.
January 8th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
[...] mean the front end looks like Paul Wall smiling. That’s a nasty grille. Rumor has it that the guy we made infamous, for blowing the cats out of his car with his mad tight tuning skills, will be first inline to pick [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I sat here watching this video and kept waiting and waiting for anything resembling the house blowing up. Instead, we got some small pops.
Just my two cents,
J.W. Patterson
Auto Professionals LLC
Kansas City, MO.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Trust me these guys know a little about turbos and cars in general.
January 19th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Porsche boxters suck dude, they can’t beat any ‘vette. they have either 245 or 295 HP.. even mustang GTs have more HP than they do.. so learn something before you talk about crap you don’t know.