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Old 01-Aug-2007, 12:29 PM
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How Do You Like Your Eggs
I was driving yesterday, not pushing it and the car smells like eggs.

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Could it be im runing lean and im gonna burn the cat....IM asuming its the humidity
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Old 01-Aug-2007, 04:48 PM
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Catalytic stinks like rotten eggs sometimes... give it a little time, my old car did it for a day, then never happened again
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Old 01-Aug-2007, 04:56 PM
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egg smell is a lean burn
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Old 01-Aug-2007, 07:32 PM
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usually this is because your catalytic is old and burning up slowly it goes away sometimes
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Old 01-Aug-2007, 10:03 PM
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I thought that egg smell was from new Catalytic converters
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Originally posted by bananax
I thought that egg smell was from new Catalytic converters
generally thats the case and thats why new cars usually stink like that
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Old 02-Aug-2007, 07:54 PM
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my cat is a magnaflow hi flow about a year...it just started with this heat
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Old 02-Aug-2007, 09:44 PM
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Originally posted by nadir
my cat is a magnaflow hi flow about a year...it just started with this heat
maybe your exhaust temps just got hot enough to break it in :P? !
i dunno
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