I was talking to Cam at Pettit Racing about another shops recommendation about replacing the stock midpipe/cat. He said something interesting, the stock cat, good or bad is made out of pure platinum, his scrap metal guy buys them for $350 each. Just a heads up for some people, because I know a lot of you just throw them away or sell them for dirt cheap on the forums.

Feel free to send any donations my way,

 

wow, i'll ship him mine for $350. can you drop him a word for me?

 

you guys didnt know that in the ghetto part of town here there are people who cut cats out of older cars for that reason.

 

holly crap thank you for that little tid bit of info I just took mine out two days ago

 

much appreciated im looking forward to getting rid of mine.

 

Haha there was just a recent WTB ad that was offering $85 shipped for as many cats as he could get...I thought it was a bit odd.

 

Wow, so for those of us looking for local people that buy cats, do we just search in our yellow pages for metal recyclers? If I can get $300 for both my precat and main cat, I'd be stoked!

 

does this count for precat as well? almost everyone on this forum would love taht to be the case

 

yeah recycling these is a good option.. thought they went for $150ish but i guess the fd ones have a bit more of the good stuff in them

precats are probably good for a few $$ too

and yes mods shouldn't be hiding this fact from members..

 

LOL i have one sitting in my living room NOW!! lol

But im gonna throw this on, then scrap my older one.

 

I am not sure how much the downpipes are worth, probably not as much as the midpipe.

 

Damn, I threw mine out about a year ago... boo...

 

also interested in how we find out where to take it.

 

And how exactly do we argue to the metal recyclers that these cats have more precious metals than normal cats?

 

Good money but i think i'll keep mine. You never know if you'll need it again and i don't want to fork out $600 for a new one.

 

hey why sell yours for $350 when this dude will buy yours for $75!

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=765225

That's who I'm selling mine to

 

New OEM? Much more than that.

Dave

 

new oem is $1500 i believe

 

 

http://www2.partstrain.com/store/?Nt...064+4294967011

$95 for a Magnaflow.

You guys DO realize there is less than 1 gram of this "pure platinum" in the cat, right?
About $50 when it is all said and done, provided you can 'crack' it out of the substrate, separate out all the palladium and rhodium and OTHER exotic metals.....
Should only cost the average joe a few hundred bucks to get his $50 worth of platinum.

 

I just want to know where people are selling them, I called a few metal recyclers and none would take it.

 

http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...layCatalogid=0

New stock pre-cat ~ $1500
New stock main cat ~ $2000