Will a misfiring engine 'kill' the cat?

there's a possibility it would have, but generally its long term before any damage is noticed, we've had a customer with a misfire for nearly a year now as he's too tight to get it fixed and his cat is still ok !

did yer know putting petrol on your cat and setting fire to it makes them go woof !

Unlikely to have done any damage as the cat takes a while to get up to temperature and start working, the unburnt fuel will just have passed harmlessly through.

That's an age-old question, that. Generally misfiring won't kill the cat, but curiosity has been known to.

like a freezer and a bandsaw makes a dog go miaow....?

In news:434ab99b$0$49786$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net, Graeme decided to enlighten our sheltered souls with a rant as follows

No GM did that at the design stage.

It's a Vectra fer Geds sake, don't do it man.

Buy a Mondeo.

That's true, I once cut a cat open to examine the insides.

The message from "Tom Burton" contains these words:

I did that when I worked for a vets as a teenager. During a quiet spell he chucked me a dead cat and told me I could take it apart to see how it worked. Or not, since it was dead.

Was there a small jar of bits left over when you put it back together?

Cheers,

The message from James Dore contains these words:

Of course. Didn't find out what the green wobbly bit was for, either.

A 25% misfire (i.e. one cylinder) at high speed and load conditions- eg a motor way run where the cat is at full operating temperature will burn it out from the raw fuel passing through it causing it to over heat and melt. I've seen several.

A miss with the cat cold or when driven slowly in town for instance is unlikely to knacker it, but will knock some life from it.

Tim..