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Date:         Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:18:50 -0800
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
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From:         Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@VANAGONPARTS.COM>
Subject:      Re: CAT vs EGR (or both?)
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Tim,

Do you have any proof that 30+ year old cars are required to have their original smog equipment in California?

I've been dealing with CA smog for quite some (I used to have a smog license many years ago) and this is a new one for me.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf Of Tim Olmstead Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:58 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: CAT vs EGR (or both?)

If you are in CA you need to have all the emissions components that came on the vehicle from the factory. After you have them they need to function properly :) Believe it or not even the exempt (1975 and earlier) vehicles are required to have all of the emissions equipment that they were born with. These vehicles are only exempt from bi-annual testing not from emissions standards. Example: if you had a 1973 VW Westfalia that was noticeably smoking and a police officer pulled you over and wrote you a ticket you would eventually receive a notice to take your vehicle to an emissions test station. If they found you did not have all the emissions equipment and you could not afford to purchase, install and make functional, the SoCA could require you to crush your vehicle. Sad to say though true.

Tim

> Is there anyone out there passing CA smog without the EGR stuff in place? > > maybe just a nice tight exhaust system and a brand new CAT would do the > trick, or should I just start working now to find all of these parts? > > I need a crossover pipe, CAT, and all of the EGR stuff currently. (thats > whats missing anyway) > > the EGR stuff is all blocked off, almost looking like it never came with > it, > but from the Mcode I guess it did at some point. > > I just wasnt sure if one of those systems would be effective enough in > reducing emitions to warrant skipping the other. > > thanks for any leads > > cr > >


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