<![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters! - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Why would someone spend money on THAT huge of a turbo, plus fuel and spark, and not replace the whole exhaust?

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]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> MORE MONEY THAN BRAINS!

skulldriveshaft

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

dculberson

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

nytmare

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Clink, clink!

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

FuzzyPlushroom

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Does the CTS-V use a pellet style converter? Jeebus. Just yank that tank off and get some custom highflow honeycomb instead.

DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Well, it looks like we crushed his website.

-chet

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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...

Jake

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @Race7117: COTD in my book right there. It's a 106 miles to Chicago...

Benson2175

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @RoninianHoon: Do platinum bullets kill vampires? Or Zombie Vampires? He probably just wanted to see if his friend was a Zombie Vampire.

philibuster

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @CafeRacer1200: Maybe one of the cars in the background of the Bullitt chase scene does...

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]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @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.

Bad Juju

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @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

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> VETEATR? No.

CATSPTR? Yes.

Elhigh

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @FATBRAFF: You almost made me spit tea out onto my keyboard. COTD nominee, in my book.

acarr260

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Apparently that guy spent all his money on his car 'cause that garage is pretty dinky...

nassin2 now with pleasant burnt rubber smell

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> That CTS-V is actively revolting against the power-robbing cats. I wish my car would so that.

Comrade Teargaskov

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> He should have had the dealer do the upgrade!!!

rkwadd

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

RNelson4

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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...

RoninianHoon

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> I think someone has a serious crush on Jeff.

badco/LoJ

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> "I like butter on mine"

RoninianHoon

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @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.

squablow

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Snap*Crackle*Pop

Rice Crispies!

SexCpotatoes

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @fatbraff: I had to look again to get that one.

squablow

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @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.

TheTooth

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @thetooth: Good pull on the song. I remember this from the Headbanger's Ball days: [youtube.com]

nitty

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> "That dust can't be good for you."
"No, I was breathing it, that's why I got a beer."

That response speaks volumes.

Tanshanomi

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @akirachan: I'm pretty sure that song was "Seasons in the Abyss" by "Slayer".

TheTooth

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> thats an easy fix... just straight-pipe it.

Mark Arnold

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> err... super rich conditions to do fuel system upgrade and him not tuning it, or tuning it incorrectly.

reefer

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> @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...

reefer

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

akirachan

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Larry Forney: Amen. La Jetee has better music, tho'.

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

anaxomander

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

BraappBraapp

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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).

PD to be

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> FWIW I will not be racing a Saab this time :)

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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

ubp_sanity

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Cop brakes, cop shocks.......And it runs good on regular gas.......

Race7117

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> I don't understand what is happening. Why would a cat come apart at idle?

Andrewpetty

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

Larry Forney

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Hmmm...think he can have that addressed under warranty at his local Cadillac dealer?

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Where can I get the soundtrack?

poxpopulus

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Shut it down immediately because big chunks of stuff are shooting out the exhaust? Nah, she'll smooth out here in a minute.

Vizzini

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> And it got his wife to come out of the closet. Rough day for that guy.

nitty

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> 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.

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> Kharma...

That's what he gets for eating Veterans.

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]]> <![CDATA[Go Platinum Mining In Your CTS-V's Catalytic Converters!]]> See, you can buy friends...who make fun of your expensive misfortune.

SecretAZNMan

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