DeTomaso Mailing List: February 98, Message #106
     



From: 	"Paul Timko" <thedrol@email.msn.com>

Subject: Exhaust Gases

Date: 	Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:44:09 +0000



The recent thread on a fuel/air mixture gauge has brought a old worry back

into my head.  I am going to have to pass an emissions test.  My car is an

1983, so I will be doing this every other year for a long, long time.  In

Illinois, it doesn't include a visual check, it only requires a simple test

at idle.  I work a mile from a testing site, so a few last minute

adjustments could easily be done a short trip to the testing site, a PASS,

and I'm back to put the car back to where it was.  Now the question, without

catalytic convertors, can the idle mixture and timing be set in a way that

the car might pass?  Or am I dreaming here?  As I see it, the key is to burn

as much of the fuel as possible right?



Hoping for something like SB-42 and 10 years to pass by in the next few

months

Paul #9270