OT: ETest/ A2s are good for something

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

Hey so have I, and more important, I have friends who have friends with
emissions dynos, should it come to that...

Cathy

On 11:16:16 pm 11/19/05 Nate Mellom <doubt@inwave.com> wrote:
> Ayup, I gots a big driveway, and friends with barns....
> ;)
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> Tonee Northam wrote:
> >  Cathy, take Nate up on his offer, store them in Beliot,WI.
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> >  C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:Okay, so I
> >  wasted my whole morning failing the ETest with the cabby, CO high
> >  (rich), NOX high (lean), HCs okay, so neither excessively rich or
> > lean. It needs a cat, which I expected would be the case, but I hear
> >  these myths of cars passing without. Not my cars.
> >
> >  So I was directed to the latest proposed changes in the rules, and
> >  87 and older are exempt soon, for good. This drops one troublesome
> >  one from the list (the 16V, here come the lumpy cams, gross
> >  polluting, all that stuff...), and one diesel, which is just a
> >  cash grab. So that's good, but not a change.
> >  The bad news is that for cars over 12, and newer than 1987,
> >  there's a proposal to test them annually, forever. At tougher
> >  standards. That includes my two 88s, which could put me at six
> >  etests next year (if they all pass without a retest), and four
> >  forever. I'll start in August for my late Novemeber birthday I
> >  guess. (Seriously). I'm really stressed out about it. The
> >  logistics of getting them in for the test are daunting.
> >  SO after kicking the cabby, I decided to help out the son and we
> >  yanked two A2 dashes side by side, to replace his heater core. I
> >  can't explain the theraputic value of a parts car. It was another
> >  88. No need for more of that shit in my life.
> >
> >  That was my day. The hassle/expense:fun ratio wasn't even close to
> >  favourable today.
> >
> >  cathy
> >
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