what will a clogged converter do to a vehicle??? like what are the symptoms??

 

slight drop in power, possible worse emissions. i cant think of anything else.

 

if one breaks apartlike in my mothers dodge ram you will have like 15% power... haha... what it did was disintegrate blew back to the muffler and stopped it up like a cork...

 

well does a red-glowing cat converter indicate that the cat converter is clogged?? and a significant loss of power and lag???

 

i would think so. dont know from experience but if its getting that damn hot.... red hot... the exhaust gases probably arent passing through quick enough. that could cause a serious problem i think.

if nothing else replace it anyway. a new cat will be good all around. flow better, even if its not a highflow.

talk about backpressure...

 

yeah i thought so too...well ima change that out today. thanks guys

 

A bad cat will DEF. cause a loss of power. Hit your cat with a broom handle or something, and if it just makes a bang noise its fine. But if it jingles like little pieces of metal, well than its toast. A totally blocked one will basically make you floor your car everywhere. If you look at your cat you will notice the bolts are different...as in they have a spring around them. This is a emergency releif valve. So if the pressure become to great (from a clogged muffler, or bad cat) it forces the cat to move open and allow exhaust to exit.

An easy way to test, is to wrap your cat in a few layers of aluminum foil and rev ita little. If no tears, rev it more and if there is a tear, you have a leak! I think I told you to do this with your header as well! Let us know how it goes.

 

should have posted this in off topic but im going through this with the toyota supra which recently got an engine in it...i replaced the cat but that was not the problem and i also did plug wires but nothing so im guessing its time to mess with the timing