I went through 2 catco cats in about 8,000 miles and the third broke 2 days after I got it. I had to go through all of the diagnostics to make sure I wasn't running rich, etc... It turned out the bonding agent on the catco's just melted away and the core started rattling horribly, seeing the bonding agent blow out my muffler was not cool... We thought it was just a bad batch of cats, but 3 in 8k miles is ridiculous...so now I have a magnaflow and it works very well.