Pontiac GTO 2004-2006 The Modern Goat

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Old Jul 4, 2005 | 02:46 AM
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i have a 2004 m6 gto the pass side manfold get red hot and car has no power at all wont even climb a small hill it is all stock it only has 6500 miles what would be the problem thanks for any help
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Old Jul 4, 2005 | 07:41 AM
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Do you have a check engine light on? From past cars and trucks that I have worked on, this would point me tawards one of the converters on the passenger side of your gto. I belive that Pontiac has a tsb about failed converters setting a missfire trouble code. If you can come up with an infrared digital pyrometer guage, you can test to see the diferance between the converters on the passenger side to the drivers side. Check it out and see what happens.
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Old Jul 4, 2005 | 09:16 AM
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This tells me that I`m deffinately getting long tubes and high flow cats!
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Old Jul 4, 2005 | 11:55 AM
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Heck at 6500 miles, just call 1-800-ROAD-SIDE and let Pontiac come pick the car up for warranty work.
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Old Jul 4, 2005 | 06:38 PM
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Stainless works headers with highflow cats, and corsa cat back exaust will solve the problem with some added power to boot.
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Old Jul 6, 2005 | 10:58 PM
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it was a bad cat just got it back today thanks for the help
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Old Jul 7, 2005 | 11:26 AM
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My neighbor Guber Pyle had a bad cat also. Someone shot it last week!
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Old Jul 8, 2005 | 05:42 PM
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no problem, anytime
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