Does a smell come with new cats?

[fstr03svtcobra]

I recently (yesterday) had a bassani catted x installed and the car has a burnt smell to it. Is this normal? Also it kinda makes a ticking air whiny noise. Is that just the x flowing right below me or something else? thanks

 

[SVT03Chris]

Are you sure it has cats on it?

What you are describing, sounds as if you didn't have cats.

 

[fstr03svtcobra]

Yea I'm sure. My friend has no cats and I definitely know that smell.

 

[VADEi2]

Bassani cats are notorious for being trash. I've had them on my 01 GT 94 GT and pulled them off. When new they will smell sometimes. On my 01 i pumped gas that was of bad quality and it heated up my cats cherry red. After that I drove around for a while with a small tick as the honeycomb was damaged. I then replaced them with the magnaflow high flow cats and never had any issues.

I currently have the bassani high flows. I couldn't pass smog with them so I ordered a set of mags and rigged them to bolt on and off, I passed my inspection and went back to the bassani to save my mags. They new cats did smell for the two days that I had them on.

 

[fstr03svtcobra]

Thanks for the info.