intheskywithpie
Spectator
so as some of you may know, i spent the last year in ohio. well this morning is the day i start heading back so i loaded my car up and started heading southward.
i get to atlanta.
parking lot.
i figure no worries, all traffic ends. except this kind. halfway through downtown my car starts jerking violently, i get away from traffic and pull over to check things out. not 20 seconds later a couple guys in a teggy pull up with these excited looks on their face (turns out they are both 240 owners). so we check things out don't see anything wrong, and they say they'll follow me just to make sure i don't explode. i don't (kinda) about 15 miles down the road my car is shaking 10x worse and i' top out at about 25, and pull over, look back...
the median is on fire.
as it turns out, my catalytic converter is melting itself; not sure why, but i'm shooting red hot extremely flammable cat guts out my tailpipe wreaking havoc on atlanta.
10 mins waiting on the tow truck, another 240 pulls over to make sure things are okay, another 10 another 240 (kouki monster on zilvia; deffinately one of the cleanest real kouki's i've ever seen), and the original two guys hang out for like two hours to make sure i get to a shop okay.
long story short the shop doesn't see anything wrong, the car drives fine (until i cross the florida state line which leaves me at a hotel til the morning when hopefully my car is cool enough to get home and get off the ground).
anyhew mad props to the atlanta scene; unfortunately i don't remember any of their names its been a hectic day.
moral of the story: get test pipes the second you buy your car. and if you're going to break down on a roadtrip do it in the middle of atlanta.
i get to atlanta.
parking lot.
i figure no worries, all traffic ends. except this kind. halfway through downtown my car starts jerking violently, i get away from traffic and pull over to check things out. not 20 seconds later a couple guys in a teggy pull up with these excited looks on their face (turns out they are both 240 owners). so we check things out don't see anything wrong, and they say they'll follow me just to make sure i don't explode. i don't (kinda) about 15 miles down the road my car is shaking 10x worse and i' top out at about 25, and pull over, look back...
the median is on fire.
as it turns out, my catalytic converter is melting itself; not sure why, but i'm shooting red hot extremely flammable cat guts out my tailpipe wreaking havoc on atlanta.
10 mins waiting on the tow truck, another 240 pulls over to make sure things are okay, another 10 another 240 (kouki monster on zilvia; deffinately one of the cleanest real kouki's i've ever seen), and the original two guys hang out for like two hours to make sure i get to a shop okay.
long story short the shop doesn't see anything wrong, the car drives fine (until i cross the florida state line which leaves me at a hotel til the morning when hopefully my car is cool enough to get home and get off the ground).
anyhew mad props to the atlanta scene; unfortunately i don't remember any of their names its been a hectic day.
moral of the story: get test pipes the second you buy your car. and if you're going to break down on a roadtrip do it in the middle of atlanta.