Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:07:25 -0600
Reply-To: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Failed Emissions Check
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for my nickel here, I'll move this a little toward vanagon fact, since I may
have been the culprit who mentioned "tuning" my van specifically to pass
emissions, then returning it to 10-12 deg. advanced at 1450 rpm, as TIICO
suggests. Nobody bothered to ask any specific questions about just what
"failed", to what degree and what numbers were recorded on the I/M Station
Report.
%OC/2 HC CO %
Max measured Max meas Max meas
idle: 916 12.1 4.0 220 96 1.20 0.27
2500 rpm 13.5 2.4 220 33 1.20 0.08
When I initially took the van in, at 10 deg adv., I was over the CO at 1.23
at idle before my "adjustment", grievous. I drive an '87 Van, an '89 Buick
about 10-12K annually. They both pass emissions annually, cost less than
$100.00 to register between them, and I help keep 160 tons of CO, 13 tons of
HC, and 6 tons of NOx out of the atmosphere here in Salt Lake City,
annually. Period.
Speaking of environmentalism, anyone here interested in helping me and my
friends in Moab get rid of a little damn: http://www.livingrivers.net/
bye,
bob
1987 Westfalia Syncro TIICO
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Edwards" <bhs73@SPYMAC.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 11:25 PM
Subject: Re: Failed Emissions Check
> >>hassle us. NOX emissions are harmful to all of us, and to the natural
> >>environment of which we are one small part - those controls are there to
> >>protect people and animals and plants, not to make the government feel
> >>powerful.
>
> I keep trying to ignore this POV, but it keeps popping up in quotes and
> it is still Friday here. snip
> It time to remove the rosey red glasses and realize that three vanagons
> out of spec are nothing compared to millions of trucks and SUVs puking out
> a higher percentage of crap into the air than cars and vans. There is not
> any way that anyone can consider that to be fair, and equitable. The
> environmentalists takes the easy road, and nit pick a few cars or vans,
> and then tell us the government is working for us, to help us, and is only
> doing it for our best interest and for the trees....... What a load of
> balony...
>
>
> Mark
>
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