tundra High-flow catalytic converters on ebay? any body have experience?

[aaronrus]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33629

thast the link.. im wondering what the deal is with this company , and if anybody has used them before? email me at aaronrus@tampabay.rr.com directly if you have please.

[BT-22]

Originally Posted by aaronrus

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33629

thast the link.. im wondering what the deal is with this company , and if anybody has used them before? email me at aaronrus@tampabay.rr.com directly if you have please.

Never seen one quite that thin.

[Larry CCF]

back up thru the early 90s, you can buy at the auto supply houses, "tester" catalytic converter tubes - basically exhaust line with flanges that would replace your existing catalytic converter
they were primarily for shops before all the electronic testing equipment was in common use, to allow a mechanic to remove the catalytic conv to see if problems vehicle was experiencing went away with the cataylitic converter

well, general public started buying them like crazy cause you also picked up a couple of horse power on smaller engine vehicles and they you were also free to use leaded fuel (while it was still available)

feds eventually caught on and banned them

that just looks like a chromed version of same thing

[aaronrus]

thats a generic picture, not a picture of the actual product. im just wondering if anyone has bought them.. your tester catalytic converters arent around anymore bro.. nice speculation..
but leaded fuel hasnt been around since 1985 or 86..i need answers, nto speculation

Originally Posted by Larry CCF

back up thru the early 90s, you can buy at the auto supply houses, "tester" catalytic converter tubes - basically exhaust line with flanges that would replace your existing catalytic converter
they were primarily for shops before all the electronic testing equipment was in common use, to allow a mechanic to remove the catalytic conv to see if problems vehicle was experiencing went away with the cataylitic converter

well, general public started buying them like crazy cause you also picked up a couple of horse power on smaller engine vehicles and they you were also free to use leaded fuel (while it was still available)

feds eventually caught on and banned them

that just looks like a chromed version of same thing

[Larry CCF]

think of what else it could possibly be?
a high flow catalytic converter descript - not sure if that's oxymoronic or redundant description
i just put a new converter on my 91 Montero, orig Mitsubishi, and the catalytic converters today aren't restricting flow - i could look thru from one end to the other and basically just appeared to be a series of maybe 4 screens like aluminum screen door (not alum, obviously) but openings in screen were about 40 -50 thou

not much in the way of restriction there, so to be higher flow, would have to be like the "tester" tubes of the 80s
and i know leaded gas ain't available today, was just passing on one of the reasons the test tubes sold

go to Magic Catz home website
pretty basic web site, selling only to export markets outside japan

you've heard the old saying, a sucker born every minute
they're just hyping something to sell they think they can dupe a market into buying -

catalytic converters ain't cheap to buy, and suspect construction costs are higher because of whatever alloy the screens are fabricated from or coated with

just don't believe a mfgr could short cut those costs and still achieve the effect a real converter would

ergo, hollow tube similiar

just 02

[Eddie]

That's just a stainless steel resonator. Real converters have some sort of heat shield and would require a much larger casing to hold the core.

Like the $20 Tundra "performance chip",it's another BS ebay item.