See, you can buy friends...who make fun of your expensive misfortune.

Kharma...

That's what he gets for eating Veterans.

I just wanted to see a big chunk of the cat material embedded into the fender of the lambo at the end. That would have been perfect.

And it got his wife to come out of the closet. Rough day for that guy.

Shut it down immediately because big chunks of stuff are shooting out the exhaust? Nah, she'll smooth out here in a minute.

Where can I get the soundtrack?

Hmmm...think he can have that addressed under warranty at his local Cadillac dealer?

What the eff is with these car guys' you-tubes that watch like a boring version of La Jetee. I mean how long do they think it takes their target audience to read four words.

I don't understand what is happening. Why would a cat come apart at idle?

Cop brakes, cop shocks.......And it runs good on regular gas.......

At least it will look stock, it'll pass visual emissions anyway. And probably even still pass the actual smog check as well.

@poxpopulus:

That's Seasons In The Abyss by Slayer. Definitely a good song to have for that video

FWIW I will not be racing a Saab this time :)

So that's what they call an "agressive" exhaust system. Should've revved it for the full experience (as in: the crankshaft shooting out of the tailpipe).

dah.. he needs a lambo. that thing right there. did you see it... dah, let me zoom in on my penis, er... car! Not no cts thing.

Larry Forney: Amen. La Jetee has better music, tho'.

"That dust can't be good for you..."
"That's why I got a beer."

This is classic! Made me laugh my butt of!! My favorite line: "That dust can't be good for you..." "That's why I got a beer!" Ha ha!!

By the way, anyone have any idea whose music they're playing in the background? I kinda like it.

@Andrewpetty: Super rich conditions(he said he upgraded the fuel system) will cause gas to pool in the cat' converters.... once hot enough the fuel will ignite and pop pop pop just like in the video.

As to why he let it continue to run is beyond me...

err... super rich conditions to do fuel system upgrade and him not tuning it, or tuning it incorrectly.

thats an easy fix... just straight-pipe it.

@akirachan: I'm pretty sure that song was "Seasons in the Abyss" by "Slayer".

"That dust can't be good for you."
"No, I was breathing it, that's why I got a beer."

That response speaks volumes.

@thetooth: Good pull on the song. I remember this from the Headbanger's Ball days: [youtube.com]

He probably let it run 'cause he has enough money to not give a damn.

Had it been me, I'd have gotten out a dustpan and collected the 'leavings', kept the left and right separated, then figured out how to put the rocks back into the cats...or I'd register it in a place which doesn't do emissions testing.... I am all for less smog, but I'm also for reducing the number of stupid people, too. Both are a challenge.

@nitty: Wow... it's been a long time since I heard that song. Still sounds good... I should dig up that old album and rip the MP3 off of it.

@fatbraff: I had to look again to get that one.

Snap*Crackle*Pop

Rice Crispies!

@Kelly: I would have been sweeping up the "leavings" too, but to take them to the scrap yard. They pay good coin for that stuff, and I'm cheap.

I like how at the end he says "he needs to get one of these" and then starts to zoom in on that garbage truck in teh background.

"I like butter on mine"

I think someone has a serious crush on Jeff.

You think all that BLACK smoke would let him know his fuel is rich, you know beside the platinum bullets firing out his tail pipe...

I thought he said "That's why I got out here", but i hope I'm wrong because the beer comment is a lot better.

He should have had the dealer do the upgrade!!!

That CTS-V is actively revolting against the power-robbing cats. I wish my car would so that.

Apparently that guy spent all his money on his car 'cause that garage is pretty dinky...

@FATBRAFF: You almost made me spit tea out onto my keyboard. COTD nominee, in my book.

VETEATR? No.

CATSPTR? Yes.

@elhigh:

No matter what you may think of him (or his wife in the closet) NO self respecting man would EVER have SPTR as part of their license plate. Ever.

@CafeRacer1200: South Pole TDRS Relay? South Philadelphia Tap Room ?

As long its not like 2G1C...

So glad our hero in the video isn't doing anything to tarnish the Caddy reputation.

@CafeRacer1200: Maybe one of the cars in the background of the Bullitt chase scene does...

@RoninianHoon: Do platinum bullets kill vampires? Or Zombie Vampires? He probably just wanted to see if his friend was a Zombie Vampire.

@Race7117: COTD in my book right there. It's a 106 miles to Chicago...

Lol, the first piece that falls out is the best. Although contrary to what he thinks its hardly 'all cleared out'. There is probably more than 80% of it still in there. I've disassembled converters before there is probably plenty of mass left.

Reminds me of my 2nd gen RX-7, while out on Mullholland with my friend behind said "you shot a fireball at me!" when a piece of flaming red hot converter shot out and hit his windshield =)

And i thought my cars ran rich...

I would have fired it up in the open and not in an apparently flimsy structure that might catch fire.

"Smokes. Don't know why." pop POP poppop pop POP

Well, it looks like we crushed his website.

Does the CTS-V use a pellet style converter? Jeebus. Just yank that tank off and get some custom highflow honeycomb instead.

Clink, clink!

Am I the only one who thought "hell, I'd run it like that"?

I've had my cats melt down and shoot glowing pieces out the tailpipes in my custom-engined Fiero. When an ember bounced off the roadway and started a grass fire I decided I'd better get it fixed.

Really, once it started blowing out pieces of the cat, it's too late. You might as well have fun with it. They're not ever going to be usable again.

'Course, the more he runs it, the more likely it is for something to get trapped in the muffler and end up as a really irritating exhaust rattle.

It's hard for me to feel very sorry for him, though; the license plate immediately brands him as a complete douchebag.

MORE MONEY THAN BRAINS!