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Re: it worked!...(home-made smog control)

To: JOHNSONG@ac.dal.ca
Subject: Re: it worked!...(home-made smog control)
From: jerry@tr2.com (Jerome Kaidor)
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 1995 10:15:21 -0800 (PST)
Greg Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
> We don't have emissions testing in Nova Scotia yet , but I fear it is
> coming.  The PO of my '72 MGB (a florida car) stripped the car of all
> emissions control.  The home-made emissions control system sounds good,
> but watching a program on TV about emissions testing in the US, I 
> remember a comment about a visual check to see that your car has 
> all of the original emissions equipment.  Without the proper parts,
> (even if your car would pass the pollution tests) they would not pass
> the car.  Anyone have any insight?

**** Maybe the visual check was a tacit admission that the test was
not complete.  With a dyno check, I don't see why they couldn't
drop the ``visual inspection'' requirement.  Of course, I'm not a
bureaucrat :-).  

                                 - Jerry Kaidor
 


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