On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, John Connolly wrote: > putting an "air pump" on an engine to pump fresh air into the exhaust system > (which dilutes the pollutants with "clean" stuff, bringing the ratios down) > is/was a common and legal method of making a car "cleaner". Actually, the purpose of the air pump wasn't dilution, it was to add oxygen to the exhaust stream so any unburned fuel would "afterburn" in the exhaust system.
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