Hey gang. Now that we're past the coolant temperature sensor problem on
my son's 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GT (3800 motor), it's time for the next
problem.
He is still complaining that it doesn't *quite* have the power that it had
when he first got it. He slapped it on the computer and right now its only
showing some kind of environmental equip. error (kinda vague to me). One
of his friends has a garage and gave it a quick once-over. He told my son
that his best guess was that the catalytic converter was going or gone.
We looked up the price at Advance and those danged things are $170-240.00,
pretty expensive stuff for an older car.
Is there any cheaper ones or can anything <cough> else be done, like replacing
it with a straight pipe, reaming the current converter out, or some solid after
market solution?
We live in Kentucky so we don't have to worry about California stuff.
Thanks for any and all help.