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From: mat@mtx5a.UUCP (m.terribile)
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Subject: Re: Re: 98 octane gasoline/European cars
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 02:19:17 EST
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> Another interesting trivia: I had a "casual" emmission check done on
> my car and ... it would have passed the NY emmissions test. This is 
> without any polution control device whatsoever.
> Jan.

My mechanic informs me that with almost any car build after 1970, you can
disable the add-on emissions control systems ... air injection, special
spark retard, etc, and if you maintain the car properly, it will still pass
the NJ state tests.  When I lived in NY, the mechanic who did my inpections
gave me the ticket that the machine printed.  After a tune-up, none of the
three ``primary pollutants'' checked was more than 5% of the allowable maximum!

Now if everybody would maintain their cars properly, we could double the
allowed pollution limits, and double the design pollution on each car and
we'd STILL be better off.  But first, let's go after the diesel buses!
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