sparks out the tailpipe?

[ranahan@charter.net (John Erickson)]

I think the cat is decomposing and spitting hot ceramic chunks out the tail 
pipe.  The cat would stop anything coming from the engine from passing, btw.

John
Long Beach


At 10:46 PM 9/23/2002 -0400, The Hitman wrote:
>  a friend of mine has a 16v jetta gli. last week it started shooting 
> sparks out the tailpipe when it was given gas. figuring the engine was 
> done for he replaced it with a spare 16v motor he had laying around. last 
> night we started the tear down on the old motor to rebuild it. everything 
> looks good, in fact, a heck of alot better then expected for a 220k 
> jetta. so my question is where the hell did the sparks come from? the 
> bearings are fine, no signs of scarring on the cylinders or cylinder 
> walls, didn't throw a rod. we even checked the cat, it seems to be fine. wtf?
>
>
>
>So Sayeth The Hitman
>'86 "psycho 16v" scirocco
>'88 "stripe" 16v scirocco
><http://www.techography.net:82/brettsgarage>
>
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