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Date:         Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:40:55 -0400
Reply-To:     Paul Guzyk <paullist08@GUZYK.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Paul Guzyk <paullist08@GUZYK.COM>
Subject:      CA smog - HC's issue use HEET
Comments: To: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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If you have high unburned HC, one "workaround" is to add a bottle of HEET into a half full fuel tank.


Drive 80-100 miles, running the heck out of it on the freeway etc.


Then try smogging again, perhaps at a different smog shop....maybe your smog shop needs calibration?  Or try a Vanagon friendly smog shop like 7 days smog in Berkeley.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/7-days-a-week-smog-check---test-only-berkeley-5




Heet is an alcohol so it does not burn/unburn as a hydrocarbon....the kids with Japanese tuner cars swear by it for passing smog tests.


HEET in the yellow bottle is about $2 at FLAPS/Walmart etc.
http://www.goldeagle.com/brands/heet/default.aspx
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