From: Frank Marrone
>>
>>
>>>Apparently now the specs have changed because I failed on a high
speed
>>>test that was not a part of the previous tests.
>>
>>The smog test has been at idle, and at 2500 RPM for years, it looks
like
>>your carb has changed, not the test. Thank your lucky stars they
arent
>>testing for NOX. The Alpine has a nasty combustion chamber, and this
>>would not be in the favor of our cars.
>
>
>Yeah, lets get this checked out. It sounded like he failed when he was
>TESTED at high RPM. This isn't and should'nt be right. Can we get a
>verification on this? As far as I know they will measure at high RPM
but
>not fail for it, they havn't managed to slip this by us (around our
necks)
>yet... or have they?
While I agree with the "should'nt be right" part, the fact is that cars
in
california have been tested this way for years, and yes, they have been
failed for both idle and high speed emmisions.
There is new legislation that will sort of fix the unloaded part.
There was a bill that passed a few years ago, that required 100%
of all California vehicle to be tested on a chassis dyno, using
a defined load profile. I believe that this bill set inot motion
what is now called ODV2, which forces very strict emmisions
conformance from the car manufacturers.
The bill did pass, but the authors had no idea of the ramifications
that this bill held toward the corner mechanic, who does'nt have the
machine or the room for the machine for that matter.
Of the facilities that currently can test cars to this method, it is
believed that these facilities could only test 5% of the required
cars in Ca.
Hope, and pray that SB42 passes and protects us from this.
Jarrid Gross.
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