Date:         Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:57:41 -0800
Reply-To:     Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortino1@ONEBOX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Cut you spark plugs
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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slight spin off, but what if one has removed the cat. converter
and not using one? what effect does this have. Maybe some back pressure?
will your mixture differ? without a cat.


slight spin off was refering to me :) regarding the subject and content.

hope all had a very nice Christmas. took me 45mins to unpack
the toys in the van. ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Joe

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Joseph  Fortino
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----         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> At 01:36 PM 12/27/2001, Stan Wilder wrote:
> >I just wondering and I knew you'd know the answer to this: What is
> that
> >stuff that drips out you tail pipe in winter months?
>
> Same stuff that comes out all the time -- put in oxygen and hydrocarbon
> fuel (gasoline), get out carbon dioxide and water.  Lots of it.  One
> reason
> that hydrogen is an attractive fuel is that the end product is simply
> water, without the CO2.
>
> The catalyst functions to adjust the small amounts of hydrocarbons
> (burn
> them to H2O and CO2), nitrogen oxides (reduce them to nitrogen) and
> carbon
> monoxide (oxidize to CO2).  The reason we need an O2 sensor on the
> engine
> is that the mixture control must be very close in order for the ratios
> to
> come out right in the cat. converter.
>
> david
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"
>

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