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Message: Well, you are mistaken. Outside air can enter and interfere with the converter and sensor...
Changed By: MarcW
Change Date: February 11, 2011 07:58PM
Well, you are mistaken. Outside air can enter and interfere with the converter and sensor...
Change Date: February 11, 2011 07:58PM
Well, you are mistaken. Outside air can enter and interfere with the converter and sensor...
operation.
Remember: Automakers don't put unneeded parts on a car. If the part is there, if the bolt is there, it is needed, if only to block the hole that was intended to be used by something else.
Probably not an O2 sensor cause the sensor either wants to be right at where the exhaust pipes from the head join (to ensure it is bathed in fresh/hot exhaust gases) or after the converter to measure the oxygen content of the exhaust gases to determine if the converter is functioning properly. Putting a sensor in the middle of a converter to my knowledge makes no sense.
Anyhow, a part that is not needed doesn't need to be made, and documented and stocked/warehoused, That the bolt is there means it serves an important function to warrant its cost.
Added: I recognize it is your car though and you can of course choose to ignore my advice/counsel. I would strongly urge you to leave the bolt alone but if you want to remove it and see what happens well, it is your car. And I may be wrong and nothing will happen. But given the potential for problems and expensive ones to fix should a converter be damaged, I can't see the risk is worth the slight potential gain. It is a small hole and even if you removed the bolt and the world didn't end I can't see how it could make any measureable improvement in the car's exhaust function. I suspect even if nothing untoward happened you'd be driven slightly crazy by the noise arising from what I believe would a self-inflicted exhaust leak.
Sincerely,
MarcW.
Remember: Automakers don't put unneeded parts on a car. If the part is there, if the bolt is there, it is needed, if only to block the hole that was intended to be used by something else.
Probably not an O2 sensor cause the sensor either wants to be right at where the exhaust pipes from the head join (to ensure it is bathed in fresh/hot exhaust gases) or after the converter to measure the oxygen content of the exhaust gases to determine if the converter is functioning properly. Putting a sensor in the middle of a converter to my knowledge makes no sense.
Anyhow, a part that is not needed doesn't need to be made, and documented and stocked/warehoused, That the bolt is there means it serves an important function to warrant its cost.
Added: I recognize it is your car though and you can of course choose to ignore my advice/counsel. I would strongly urge you to leave the bolt alone but if you want to remove it and see what happens well, it is your car. And I may be wrong and nothing will happen. But given the potential for problems and expensive ones to fix should a converter be damaged, I can't see the risk is worth the slight potential gain. It is a small hole and even if you removed the bolt and the world didn't end I can't see how it could make any measureable improvement in the car's exhaust function. I suspect even if nothing untoward happened you'd be driven slightly crazy by the noise arising from what I believe would a self-inflicted exhaust leak.
Sincerely,
MarcW.
Original Message
Author: MarcWDate: February 11, 2011 07:54PM
Well, you are mistaken. Outside air can enter and interfere with the converter and sensor...
operation.
Remember: Automakers don't put unneeded parts on a car. If the part is there, if the bolt is there, it is needed, if only to block the hole that was intended to be used by something else.
Probably not an O2 sensor cause the sensor either wants to be right at where the exhaust pipes from the head join (to ensure it is bathed in fresh/hot exhaust gases) or after the converter to measure the oxygen content of the exhaust gases to determine if the converter is functioning properly. Putting a sensor in the middle of a converter to my knowledge makes no sense.
Anyhow, a part that is not needed doesn't need to be made, and documented and stocked/warehoused, That the bolt is there means it serves an important function to warrant its cost.
Sincerely,
MarcW.
Remember: Automakers don't put unneeded parts on a car. If the part is there, if the bolt is there, it is needed, if only to block the hole that was intended to be used by something else.
Probably not an O2 sensor cause the sensor either wants to be right at where the exhaust pipes from the head join (to ensure it is bathed in fresh/hot exhaust gases) or after the converter to measure the oxygen content of the exhaust gases to determine if the converter is functioning properly. Putting a sensor in the middle of a converter to my knowledge makes no sense.
Anyhow, a part that is not needed doesn't need to be made, and documented and stocked/warehoused, That the bolt is there means it serves an important function to warrant its cost.
Sincerely,
MarcW.