Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:58:57 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject: Thinking of switching to Gas.? (response from digest mode) Not
much Vanagon content
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A rhetorical question about California and it's very restrictive emissions
policies.
What's up with these guys down there? How come they've got such a hard-on
for diesel vehicles? In the rest of the world aren't well over 50% of all
vehicles in service diesel powered? In the E.U., where "Green" is more
than just slogan the oil companies are using in their TV ads, most people
drive mostly diesels; cars and trucks that aren't allowed into the US
because of the influence of the Calif. Air Resources Board (same guys who
stepped in to kill the electric car, at the behest of the
corporations......fascists?) California passes a new 'standard' (while some
of their rules are SO ridiculous, like: it's OK to drive your Humvee to the
store, but you can't ride your Honda 50cc motorcycle unless it has a "Green
Sticker"?) and the rest of the states see it and soon try to copy it..
Watching the 24hr sports car race in France yesterday... ("Le Mans", in
'American) the first 6 racecars were diesel powered..actually running on a
mix of Bio-diesel. They (diesel powered vehicles) work well, they are said
to pollute less and yet they are legislated against, mainly in
California..As Cali goes on auto emissions, the rest of the states usually
follow along..
This CARB group..Why can you put a Kennedy Engineering Subaru 2.2 motor
into a Vanagon, but not a 2.5 Subie? Or maybe sometimes the 2.5 is OK and
sometimes Not.. Why do they have issues with swaps that clearly pollute less
than the original engines?
"Not on the Approved List" Shouldn't they be concerned more with the
total amount of pollution a particular vehicle produces rather than the
amount of paperwork you can show to the test station fellow? The worst
running Geo Metro probably emits 1/100th the amount of crap of a Prevost
Motor Coach...yet the motor coach has few emission restrictions and the Geo
Metro is carefully scrutinized and flunked by the testers if you have
anything not original on that little POS...My SO's Yamaha Zuma scooter
smokes like crazy (it's a two stroke) but it is legal in California...while
my 1.8 gas motored inline Van is probably illegal..yet much cleaner running
than most vehicles..
Weird..
Vanagon content: If you live in California and decide to swap a diesel
vanagon motor for a gas powered motor...Which way will the CARB react
stupidly? Will they fail you because you've got a diesel? Or will they
fail you because you changed motors to one that isn't "approved"?
Dunno..but I suggest moving to Nevada..getting plates then going back home..
Don Hanson
From: chris jackson=20
To: Diesel-Vanagon@yahoogroups.com=20
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 4:42 PM
Subject: [Diesel-Vanagon] ca smog
Dose anyone know if Ca is stating to check diesel now? I'm thinking of =
picking up an 82 d that now has an 1.8 gas.
Chris
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