Recent content by Copafield

Just to add to the bank of information ... this problem was indeed a collapsed cat. First cat is shredded and and lot of it ended up againt the 2nd cat and there's some still suck between the manifold and 2nd cat, just after the elbow. There's a type of exhaust gasket made out of woven...

OK, pulled the O2 sensor out, took it for a quick drive (7:30pm - sure the neighbours love me hah) and i was able to get up to 70 no worries, definately not at full power but far more than it had when the major problem occured - so - unless somebody says otherwise i'm going to put the car on the...

Thanks for the replies so far. It's NASP so no, no turbo/piping to come off (i've had turbo's in the past and this is a similar feeling but worse than a pipe coming off). The sound i'm hearing is definately coming from the 'butterfly' - before i removed the box and pipe the sound was coming...

Trying to diagnose a problem with our car. Symptoms were occasional loss of power under load while warm, now the car simply has almost no power under load and there is a strange noise coming from the air intake. I can rev freely while in neutral but under load i can't really get above 40k/h, i...