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Apr 14, 2008 | 08:45 PM

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SS exhaust smell

I have a kinda acidic sulfer type of smell after the exhaust heats up, I have QTP SS headers, RandomTech SS highflow cats, SS 12" (brand not sure) resonators with the Basani 2.5" true dual exhaust and a little aluminum from the local shop adapting the basani cat-back to the headers.

all went on almost at the same time so not sure what the smell is, does anybody know?

Apr 14, 2008 | 08:51 PM

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Its the Cats your smelling. When I first put cats (Magnaflow CarSound cats) on my ORY I had that same smell for a while. With in a few weeks it became less and less, now it doesnt smell anymore. I bet you smell it more after a WOT run? Its just the cats breaking in. You'll probably notice that the car will get louder in a couple of weeks.

Apr 14, 2008 | 08:56 PM

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I do notice it more after I have been getting on it...

Thanks for the response!

Apr 14, 2008 | 09:06 PM

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Any pics of your exhaust setup? Its the exact same set up I'll be doing very soon.

Apr 14, 2008 | 10:39 PM

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ss exhaust always smells better......o you have a firebird, nevermind

Apr 15, 2008 | 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by BlackBADaSS02

Any pics of your exhaust setup? Its the exact same set up I'll be doing very soon.

I have pics of my similar setup in the dual exhaust sticky. Post date is ~08-2007. I used magnaflow Metalicats(sp). I PM'ed you a link to a source if you want to go that route.

Apr 15, 2008 | 07:38 AM

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I just did my exhaust and its my mufflers breaking in that smells...I have no cats

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Apr 18, 2008 | 10:37 AM

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my Magnaflow cats still smelled terrible after 6 months and 8K miles, i ditched them for an ORY and haven't looked back.

Apr 18, 2008 | 11:32 AM

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Not that using a ORY smells any better, its just a different smell.

Apr 18, 2008 | 03:26 PM

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yeah, but its a good smell!

Apr 18, 2008 | 09:33 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackBADaSS02

Any pics of your exhaust setup? Its the exact same set up I'll be doing very soon.

Bryan...spelled the same as mine...it is not pretty underneath but I am sure it flows real good, and I dont like the real loud systems some have and this was loud to me, so I had high flow cats and small resonators put on and I think it sounds alot better, whencruising you can have a conversation without talking loud, but when getting on it at all, you hear the power

hope this helps

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