Re: smog check fun

["Marc Peterson" <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>]

Of course Houston recently replaced LA as having the worst air of any large
city in the U.S, so your statement makes sense.
In light of recent events I will not go on a rant about why, but most people
know the reason.

Marc

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Lowe" <scirocco16v_1986@yahoo.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:31 PM
Subject: RE: smog check fun


> It must suck to live in a State that is so anal about
> making changes to your car. And as far as I could tell
> when I lived in California the air was no better in
> the country then here in the suburbs of Dallas, and
> the larger metro areas just flat out sucked when it
> came to pollution. Seems like all that work involved
> in "California emissions" is one fat waste of time and
> money, I feel bad for you guys.
>
> Here in Texas most counties could care less about
> emissions, but Dallas county does test and it really
> depends on where you go because many stations are not
> that thorough. My Scirocco passed emissions with a
> gutted cat, nine month old gas(slightly diluted with
> some fresh gas), and of course having sat in the
> garage for nine months it probably was still burning
> off junk in the engine/exhaust. Of course the HC
> reading was a bit high at 179 at idle, but the
> standard in Texas is HC 220 or less, CO 1.20 or less,
> Dilution >6.0%. They could not give a rats ass if you
> have your car modified though, as long as you pass the
> above specs, horn works, brakes work, signals work,
> and your stupid gas cap passes, then your good to go.
> My Brother lives in the next county over and his
> inspection consists of brakes, signals, horn, that's
> it. Texas does not even check headlight alignment
> anymore.
>
> Later...
>
>
> --- Josh Hignight <Josh.Hignight@phoenix.edu> wrote:
> > Woohoo! I love NM's shoddy paperwork. My friend
> > recently had his 2 years come up on his CRX Si(no
> > way that bugger would pass emissions, hella rich, no
>
> > cat, cammed...), he did it through the mail and
> > checked the "2 year registration box" (registered
> > for 2 years), and got his sticker!!
> > That's 4 years without E testing! Lucky bastard!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curt Voss [mailto:curtv@eudoramail.com]
> > As far as I can tell, even here in Smog II land most
> > of those guys just go through a checklist to see if
> > you have the required equipment and won't catch any
> > mods that aren't glaringly obvious.
> > They've never caught on to the 1.8L in my '82, or
> > its original 1.7L that's now in my '78 Rabbit. They
> > might spot an 8- vs. a 16-valve, but since your '88
> > came with both, I'm sure they just decided that it
> > came with the 8v. You might have trouble with
> > your '80 since they won't have any listing for a
> > 16-valve in that year.
>
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 03:03:37   ethos101 wrote:
> > I dont know if this is common place or not,but
> > today I took my 88 "mongrel"to get smogged and it
> > failed because the idle was higher than spec.
>
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