I've been having my HFC for a while and the smell of it gets inside my car, I set the ventilation to inside circulation to clean out the smell. But when I get out of the car I smell the remaining from the exhaust.

Anybody got a way to avoid the smell from getting inside? or it's inevitable?

 

i got mine installed yesterday ...n mayne dat smells terrible...im not sure how long this smell will last...i wanna know too...

 

I have been driving with HFC for 3 months now. Smells the same.... WTF do we do?

 

haha ...i guess we should be happy...it proves that our HFCs are working..what im trying to say is less smell, more restrictive,no power gain...Vs more smell, less restrictive, power gain

 

i mean i can live with it, its just irritating holding my breath sometimes... haha

 

Exhaust inside the car? Don’t think that’s good.

 

??? I have a hfc and no problem. Btw, i have a UR ceramic ones.

 

i mean you can smell it when i roll the window down on stop lights, or when i shut the car off... smell never went away...

 

I just ordered some Berk HFCs today and this concerns me. I've heard people say the HFCs smell for a while but then it goes away.

Then I've heard HFCs smell maybe for a few secs during cold start but then again the smell goes away.

Can someone chime in please? I don't want to drive my car around and attract cops or smell like I'm running test pipes

I also want to be able to pass emissions here in Illinois

 

ill chime in

i think the people complaining about the odor are just being a teeny bit too sensitive about this

i have metallic berk hfc and yeah from time to time ill smell something but its really not that bad. I dont have to hold my breath in at all. the only time i really smell it is right after starting the car

 

You should be fine.

 

wow i hardly ever smell anything..

when I first got my Berks installed they smelled for a few days..but after that it went back to normal..

the only time i'll smell something is when i drive really hard and suddenly come to a stop, then i can smell it..

 

dude it's definitely not that noticeable to where cops can smell you out. i driven around with so many passengers and not one of them has ever complained about a smell, and most of them are the picky ones (females)

 

I [AM] complaining about this, I'm not sensitive. watch what you say you sound like a female. hello Brooklyn, welcome to Cali

 

wtf is this?

 

Don't worry about it.....

 

The smell is because the cats are less restrictive but do a worse job at converting, so there is no way to get rid of it unless you put a normal cat back on the car. Most high flow cats are a 2 way catalyst vs. 3 way in an OEM one. That difference makes all the difference in pollution and smell.

BTW the smell is very noticeable to the cars behind you. So what you are smelling, cars behind are smelling 10x worse. Notice how you can smell a diesel when it's in front of you and it stinks? With high-flow cats or test pipes that is how people behind you feel. Either get used to it and hold your breathe or pull them off.

Honestly I'm not a tree huger, but the 5hp is not worth how much polluting you are doing. High flow cats pollute about 5-10x as bad as a normal cat (you will not pass smog) and no cats pollute about 100x as much as a standard cat. So for all that power which simply doesn't matter on the street you are polluting a whole crap load into the air. Again, not a tree huger, but really is that worth it?

 

......lol....ok cali

 

I know my exhuast smelled like i had a grocery bag stuck to it ( burniong plastic) for well over the first week, maybe about 500 miles or so.. just mineral oil on the pipes that burns off.

i know this is an old thread.. just in case someone else searches this later with a similar problem. Dont know if they meant the egg smell of new cats or not...

 

I have Berk Metallic HFC as well. I never had any funny smell at all during cold start, or even after the has been completely warmed up. Could there be a leak somewhere between the seal? I think that is the only plausible possibility to the smell. Believe me, the smell is no where near when i had test pipes.