CUSEMAX

My check engine light came on and autozone said that it was a catalytic convertor problem. I looked and no one sells a new catalytic convertor except nissan dealers. I looked at the jerry-rome site and they were 800 bucks. I looked on ebay and they have the (illegal?) high flow pipes for only 30 dollars.

Any advice on what I should do????

Terran

iTrader: (6)

You won't pass emmissions with a straight pipe (I would guess NY has emmissions right?).

VQuick

iTrader: (17)

Salvage yard! If you don't know of any local ones, try car-parts.com.

njmodi

iTrader: (4)

You can get cheap (in price and quality) catalytic converters from Midas etc... depends how much you care about the part quality.

killcrap

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no emmisons in NY

DAVE Sz

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Most aftermarket cat converters are bad quality. The OEM cat costs around $800 but the honey comb "filter" element in there is superior to those sold in the aftermarket cats. If it was a cat problem maybe the O2 sensor is the culprit. If the cat is bad, it's most likely due to your car running rich and making the cat go bad. Get a new one and most likely it will go bad too and a lot faster than the stock one. Maybe 2 weeks time?

hasei

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How about this:

http://www.catalyticonverters.com/ni...converter.html

I never actually bought one from them though I was thinking about it.

Prophecy1

Someone else sells them you just have to find it. The link above works, also check out a good junkyard.

Proph

20V6

I don't think a malfunctioning cat would trigger the Chk.Eng. light because that's strictly a mechanical device. The O2 sensors are electronic and could trigger the light, but I thought they're sitting prior to the cat, so they "wouldn't know" if anything was wrong with the cat....
In any case there is something wrong with fuel supply/ignition/emission systems that triggered the light...

THT

iTrader: (8)

Don't 99s have four sensors; one in each part of the Y, one precat and one postcat? Read your ECU codes.

~THT