XC92
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So it finally happened to me, thankfully not on my Talon, but on my other, backup car, a 2010 Kia Rio. But for all I know it can and will happen to my Talon eventually as I have no realistic choice but to park it on the street, so I thought I'd ask here.
The Rio has 2 cats, a front just off the exhaust manifold, which is still there, along with both O2 sensors, and a rear a foot or two behind it, which is the one they stole. They just cut the pipes leading into and coming out of the cat, before the front flange and behind the rear flange of the rear cat.
I'll probably get a universal aftermarket cat, a Walker 84205, which is CARB compliant as this is a CA emissions car and which just has an inlet and outlet pipe, no flanges, so I have to figure out how to iinstall it and replace the missing pipe.
What I'm thinking is have a welder weld new flanges onto the new cat inlet and outlet pipes, weld a flange on the open end of the front exhaust pipe, then weld an appropriate length of new pipe onto the open end of the front exhaust pipe, so it reaches the new cat, and then a flange onto the front end of this new pipe length, then bolt everything together with new gaskets.
Would this work, and is it a decent solution that would minimize leakage and look most "professional"? I hope to sell the car later this year and want it to look as nice as possible, but without spending more than is worth it as it's kind of old and has around 160k miles on it.
Btw any reason they didn't steal my Talon's cat? The entire exhaust pipe was on the ground at the time, under the car, as I was working on its rear end. Are they too old to be worth anything to cat thieves, or was I just lucky?
The Rio has 2 cats, a front just off the exhaust manifold, which is still there, along with both O2 sensors, and a rear a foot or two behind it, which is the one they stole. They just cut the pipes leading into and coming out of the cat, before the front flange and behind the rear flange of the rear cat.
I'll probably get a universal aftermarket cat, a Walker 84205, which is CARB compliant as this is a CA emissions car and which just has an inlet and outlet pipe, no flanges, so I have to figure out how to iinstall it and replace the missing pipe.
What I'm thinking is have a welder weld new flanges onto the new cat inlet and outlet pipes, weld a flange on the open end of the front exhaust pipe, then weld an appropriate length of new pipe onto the open end of the front exhaust pipe, so it reaches the new cat, and then a flange onto the front end of this new pipe length, then bolt everything together with new gaskets.
Would this work, and is it a decent solution that would minimize leakage and look most "professional"? I hope to sell the car later this year and want it to look as nice as possible, but without spending more than is worth it as it's kind of old and has around 160k miles on it.
Btw any reason they didn't steal my Talon's cat? The entire exhaust pipe was on the ground at the time, under the car, as I was working on its rear end. Are they too old to be worth anything to cat thieves, or was I just lucky?