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Old 11-24-2010, 03:43 PM
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Hey Guys as most of you know i just had a set of BBk shortys installed and ive only been driving the car for about a week and out of nowhere the check engine light decided to come on and i hooked it up to my SCT DashScan and my car is throwing the code of P0420 which i looked it up is either due to a dirty O2 Sensor or due to a bad Catalytic Converter, I was just wondering if anyone else that has had a header swap has run into issues like this in the past with their cars? And does anyone know how to tell what the problem actually is?



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Old 11-24-2010, 04:03 PM
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02 Sensor most likely. I have to swap out the other 3 on janices since her's came back. Just check them out and see.


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Yeah my car has the same code coming up and I haven't done a header swap just had the dual's put on with high flow cats. I changed one of the o2 sensors already, gunna change the other three and hopefully that will solve the problem.


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Old 11-25-2010, 10:24 PM
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Thanks for the input.


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i had that pop up when i installed an Xpipe with high flow cats. I used a Snap on scanner to check mine though and it told me exactly which O2 sensor was bad. my predator wouldnt tell me which one.


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you should just change all 4, they arent that exspensive


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yeah do em all in one shot. very easy and they are cheap...


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