'96 Sunfire 2.2L Pings and has rotten egg smell exhaust

Tiny
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  • 1996 PONTIAC SUNFIRE
The head was replace in its entireity 9k miles ago. I have always performed excellent routine maintenance. I do have a K&N air filter and a flowmaster baseline performance exhaust.

The car will ping under moderate engine load regardless of external conditions (rain, heat, etc.) When the engine is cold. Under either heavy or light load the pinging does not occur. I have always pumped 89 octane (R+M)/2 method gasoline into it. The exhaust always smells like rotten eggs (faintly albeit). The pinging recently developed. Anyone got a suggestion for where I should poke around?
Friday, October 6th, 2006 AT 3:19 PM

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Tiny
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The rotten egg smell is almost always the catolitic converter, it could be plugged up, causing your other problems, but the smell does not always mean that is the problem, but thats what almost always the reason for that smell.
But that would be my suggestion to change it out, one way to find out is to diconnect the pipe before the cat and see if you problems go away. If that works replace it, AutoZone has a bolt on one for about $69. Muffler shops charge about $150 not including labor.
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006 AT 12:39 AM

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