[BigMike]

I just took a ~250 mile road trip. on the way down, we smelled a slight burning/melting. I could nto for the life of me figure out what it was. I had one of my seats folded down in my Pathfinder, and where it was folded down seemed abnormally warm to me. I thought, whatever, I'll fix it when I get back. So.... I just unpacked my stuff, opened the bag that my printer was in, that was sitting on the abnormally warm spot, and that smell totally hit me. I looked at the bottom of my printer, all the plastic is melted, and some of it melted away! WTF?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Now you know where to keep the food hot while driving over to Grannie's.

 

[Westy]

You may have lost a heat shield on your exhaust, or you are unwittingly transporting nuclear materials for a terrorist organization.

 

[BUCKET]

Yeah man, that definitely sounds like a missing heat shield problem. Years ago I had a Prelude with a missing heat shield and the carpet almost caught fire it got so f***ing hot.

 

[BigMike]

Yeah man, that definitely sounds like a missing heat shield problem. Years ago I had a Prelude with a missing heat shield and the carpet almost caught fire it got so f***ing hot.

That sounds bad.....

 

[special O]

i heard clogged catalytic converters do that also

 

[rpk1988]

or you are unwittingly transporting nuclear materials for a terrorist organization.

Thats it, thats it. me...they are chasing me.

 

[JSB]

Yep. Inside my RX-7 I would rest my right leg against the center divider. It would get really warm. Some times just plain hot. I replaced the pre-cat with a downpipe instead. The heat went bye bye, and I picked up some ponies at the same time.

 

[rpk1988]

Get a flowmaster with a 5 inch tip. That would be sick.

 

[punkassean]

BAH! measly 5", why not go to a 6" for true pimp status?

Seriously, the cat is probably clogged up as others have suggested, that is most likely the culprit. It could also be that you should have bought a 4Runner though

Don't go asking the dealer for a new cat, it will be like $600. Just go to a muffler shop and get a "hi-flow" cat off the shelf for about $200 and have them weld it in.

 

[rpk1988]

On my Go Ped, there is a tub where the exhast runs through the frame and out the rear to silence it. I took that thing off a ran it straight. It might be a little louded but it doesnt rob my performance anymore. Just get a whole new muffler set.

 

[BigMike]

BAH! measly 5", why not go to a 6" for true pimp status?

Seriously, the cat is probably clogged up as others have suggested, that is most likely the culprit. It could also be that you should have bought a 4Runner though

Don't go asking the dealer for a new cat, it will be like $600. Just go to a muffler shop and get a "hi-flow" cat off the shelf for about $200 and have them weld it in.

I took it in today, and its actually the Muffler under the truck. It's broken at the seam. In Virginia, you are not allowed to weld to a muffler (don't know if you can in any other states) and since my Nissan is so special, I have a dual in single out muffler, so instead of $80, its $180

The whole thing is goign to be fixed for just under $400, but at least its not a 4Runner

 

[DßR]

The whole thing is goign to be fixed for just under $400, but at least its not a 4Runner

That's more than I've spent repairing my 4runner in the 4+ years I've owned it, and that includes brake pads, 2 rotors, 4 tires, and a starter rebuild.

:eviltongu

 

[Toshi]

That's more than I've spent repairing my 4runner in the 4+ years I've owned it, and that includes brake pads, 2 rotors, 4 tires, and a starter rebuild.

:eviltongu

wha? you are buying tires for how much? i didn't know 4runners took 165/65R13 meats... (my 31"s cost about $115 a piece iirc)

 

[DßR]

wha? you are buying tires for how much? i didn't know 4runners took 165/65R13 meats... (my 31"s cost about $115 a piece iirc)

haha, that was technically cheating... I got 'em as take-offs from my bud who was upgrading his 'Burban to some serious meat, cost me $50/ea.

I had BFG A/T 31's on there before but wasn't down with dropping 8 bills or whatever on a new set right before driving out to Whistler!

 

[BigMike]

Oh yeah, Well.. well..... ahh crap I got nothin!

I didnt realize you had BFG A/Ts on there.... did I know you then?

 

[flatulant_man]

the carpet almost caught fire it got so f***ing hot.

one time i accidentally caught the carpet on fire in my room when i tried to build a satelite dish to listen to nasa. i just hooked a vegetable steemer, radio antenna, and computer speaker together with duct tape and copper wire. then i connected that to the outlet with more copper wire, and went around, checking the joints. found a loose, pushed it down, duct tape actually exploded, and a spark caught my carpet on fire.

 

[DßR]

Yeah, definitely. They were on there up until like this time last year, but the tread was about 1/16" deep so I bought some spares off Colin.

 

[chicodude]

one time i accidentally caught the carpet on fire in my room when i tried to build a satelite dish to listen to nasa. i just hooked a vegetable steemer, radio antenna, and computer speaker together with duct tape and copper wire. then i connected that to the outlet with more copper wire, and went around, checking the joints. found a loose, pushed it down, duct tape actually exploded, and a spark caught my carpet on fire.

That sounds really dumb. Why the hell would you want to listen to nasa anyway?

 

[me89]

yeh to my knowledge a clogged cat wont do that. ive seen some really bad i mean really bad cats. you would deffinatly classify these things as clogged and they never created extra heat.the only prob a clogged cat does is robs you of much needed exahaust flow so you rob a little bit of your hp.

 

[punkassean]

Think about what you just wrote....

If the exhaust flow is impeded by the clogged cat then where do you think all that exhaust that isn't getting out of the exhaust system is going? And what about all that extra heat associated with said restricted exhaust???