RE: Smog Test = GROSS POLLUTER

["Fry, Larry" <LEF@chem-tronics.com>]

I would think high octane would help, if only because low octane burns
faster/hotter, producing more oxides of nitrogen.....sound reasonable?

Larry  sandiego16V

-----Original Message-----
From: RYAN STACK [mailto:rtsst20+@pitt.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 12:15 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: RE: Smog Test = GROSS POLLUTER


I have heard that if you run high octane gas that it is more likely to make 
your car fail emissions.
I'm not too sure of this, but i thought i'd just throw this out there.  If 
someone would like
 to shed some light on this please go ahead.

--On Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:53 PM -0700 Theron Ross 
<ross@sanoh.com.mx> wrote:r

> You are right, I meant "HC", not "HP". Guess I was just thinking about the
> massive amounts of Horse Power that my motor puts out--or that I wish it
> put out.
>
> I'm using the stock cam in this motor and only have a NS throttle body
> installed.
>
> I'm in Southern California, but today I'm wishing I lived somewhere else!
>
> --Theron
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marc Peterson [mailto:mpeters6@rochester.rr.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:42 PM
>> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>> Subject: Re: Smog Test = GROSS POLLUTER
>>
>>
>> Yup, a dead cat and a dead O2 sensor.  HP - i'm unsure of
>> that.  I thing
>> that its supposed to be HC, hydrocarbons.  If so, it means
>> that you are
>> running a tad rich.  A new O2 and no vaccuum leaks should fix
>> that, unless
>> you are running a wild cam.  NO - oxides of nitrogen.  These
>> are the gases
>> that a cat "converts."  If yours is original, its long past
>> doing anything
>> useful.
>>
>> BTW, where are you, Jersey?
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>
>
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