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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 01:15 PM
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Originally posted by RX7WEEE
is it true that if you drive around 75mph in 3rd gear for 1.5 hours you will cook all the crap that has built up in your cats out?
In a word, no. That's ridiculous. Whomever is giving you such advice is missing something....like a portion of grey matter
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 01:26 PM
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If you drive at 75 mph for 1.5 hours, in 3rd gear, you will remove all the build-up in your gas tank.

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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 02:08 PM
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 02:08 PM
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you'll be deaf.
exhaust droning sucks @!
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 04:37 PM
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Originally posted by DaedelGT
SanJo, they are producting a product with rare metals inside in extremely limited quantities with very limited demand. Of course it's going to cost a lot.
You can't be implying that they're using anything different than anyone else is, are you? If so, you're most certainly wrong. Mazda doesn't have any kind of special pixie dust in there, it's just the standard cat guts (which is platinum, rhodium or palladium...accessible to everyone in the auto industry and at your local Safeway/Von's/Kroger).
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 06:00 PM
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I think running any type of cat on any FD hard frequently on the track will eventually make the cat fall apart.

I replaced my 65K mile main cat 10/03 with a stocker in good condition with more miles. Mine LOOKED perfect on the outside, inside the bricks had broken.
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 06:48 PM
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a guy who has a 3rd gen told me that thats what caused his engine to blow up befor 30K he babied it to death. he said that the mazda dealership told him every so often that he should do that... so ill just have to get a down pipe and a mide pipe with and a better (powerFC)ecu
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Old Oct 30, 2003 | 06:49 PM
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I use my stock cat for about 15 minutes each year I go to and from emissions check point. $2000 for the stock cat? I would just get a MP, PowerFC, and with the left over money a Veilside body kit
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Old Oct 31, 2003 | 06:42 AM
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DamonB. Clogged Bonez high-flow cat was the root cause for my latest low boost problem. Symptoms and failure occurred to me exactly as you described with your 110,000-mile stock cat--during a track event (I got 4 laps). My Bonez was 5 years old and had 74,000 miles on it. Symptoms were secondary turbo was not making boost. Eventually the clog got so bad, that the primary turbo boost decreased, and the pattern was 4-0-4.

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...13#post2288713

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