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What Will GE Force Its People To Drive Now
On 3/6/2012 8:44 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
In , says... On 3/5/2012 5:12 PM, wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:14:47 -0500, X ` Man wrote: A few of the camping forum guys recommend getting the smog crap off the engine. But, they don't get specific enough. You mean, break the law? "Take the smog crap off" worked in the 70s when emission control was a clumsy add on to a conventional engine. These days the computer is your smog control. You can certainly tune the computer for more power and less for economy but the most efficient burn will usually also give you the least emissions. I bet a new NASCAR racer would pass the 1975 emission controls at anything but idle speed. Fuel consumption is important to them too. No way... It's important but there is no way they get that good of a burn without a catalytic converter... They sure will! They've been completely engineered to operate as efficiently as possible from conception on up, without a need for a catalytic converter. Need or not, they wouldn't run a cat... These are race cars. I still don't buy them passing emissions now. I know how fuel moves through an engine, I don't care how many computers you have. Heads are heads, valves are valves, and pistons are still pistons... |
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What Will GE Force Its People To Drive Now
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On 3/6/2012 8:44 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In , says... On 3/5/2012 5:12 PM, wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:14:47 -0500, X ` Man wrote: A few of the camping forum guys recommend getting the smog crap off the engine. But, they don't get specific enough. You mean, break the law? "Take the smog crap off" worked in the 70s when emission control was a clumsy add on to a conventional engine. These days the computer is your smog control. You can certainly tune the computer for more power and less for economy but the most efficient burn will usually also give you the least emissions. I bet a new NASCAR racer would pass the 1975 emission controls at anything but idle speed. Fuel consumption is important to them too. No way... It's important but there is no way they get that good of a burn without a catalytic converter... They sure will! They've been completely engineered to operate as efficiently as possible from conception on up, without a need for a catalytic converter. Need or not, they wouldn't run a cat... These are race cars. I still don't buy them passing emissions now. I know how fuel moves through an engine, I don't care how many computers you have. Heads are heads, valves are valves, and pistons are still pistons... What you are not understanding is that the OP said that the NASCAR engines would pass *1975* era emissions requirements, and I'll bet that's true. |
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