500.00 Bucks Later My 97 Camaro Passed Smog

JeffP1167

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I failed my first time so had to go in for a cat converter and 4 o2 sensors, why this car has 4 o2 sensors is beyond me. California has gotten real bad on lowering there limits. for instance my car can max at 52ppm Hc at 15mph and 32ppm at 25mph. Even with a new cat my car had a hard time getting below that. It blew 48ppm at 15mph and 25ppm at 25mph. However it was squeeky clean on everything else.

California is one way or another determined to get you to buy a new car. Next year they are lowering the emissions levels even more.
 
California is one way or another determined to get you to buy a new car. Next year they are lowering the emissions levels even more.

Hopefully the new emission standards won't apply to older cars. The democratic party has a strangle hold on the political structure here.

Oh, there's a few postal zip codes in the south central part of the state where the smog rules don't apply. These areas are predominately populated by Hispanics. Equality for all here in the US....right?
 
I failed my first time so had to go in for a cat converter and 4 o2 sensors, why this car has 4 o2 sensors is beyond me. California has gotten real bad on lowering there limits. for instance my car can max at 52ppm Hc at 15mph and 32ppm at 25mph. Even with a new cat my car had a hard time getting below that. It blew 48ppm at 15mph and 25ppm at 25mph. However it was squeeky clean on everything else.

California is one way or another determined to get you to buy a new car. Next year they are lowering the emissions levels even more.

The front o2 sensors regulate the fuel mixture, the rearward ones monitor the cat output/reduction. In theory, a bad cat will give you a trouble code.:thumbs:
 
I just got lucky with my DD 2000 Sunfire 180,000 miles (294,400Km) and the curb idle test showed all 0.0 and even the 2500 rpm test the NO output was 1/2 allowed. woohoo no more testing for 2 more years
 
The working stiff need grow a pair out thair and just start some civil disobediance like was done in the 60's....

mass ignore the 'laws' and fail to pay fines, ignoring the .gov on that for every turn.....

in other words civil insurrection over that green weenie shit.....


totally seriously....that's what it takes to kill the weenies, literally and figuratively, their choice, I could care LESS.....

we either have the AMERICAN standard of living or we join the 3rd world living till age 50 at best and smelling mule shit for the privilege.....

and YES, it IS just that damn simple for the vast majority of the working stiffs from bank VP's on down the list.....

:smash::thumbs:
 
I failed my first time so had to go in for a cat converter and 4 o2 sensors, why this car has 4 o2 sensors is beyond me. California has gotten real bad on lowering there limits. for instance my car can max at 52ppm Hc at 15mph and 32ppm at 25mph. Even with a new cat my car had a hard time getting below that. It blew 48ppm at 15mph and 25ppm at 25mph. However it was squeeky clean on everything else.

California is one way or another determined to get you to buy a new car. Next year they are lowering the emissions levels even more.

The front o2 sensors regulate the fuel mixture, the rearward ones monitor the cat output/reduction. In theory, a bad cat will give you a trouble code.:thumbs:

there theory failed because my cat was broken internally and had a section where it looked melted. first reading were almost maxed out on everything prior to new cat. So the myth of obd2 being able to detect all that not necessarily true since my check engine light has never come on and the cat was obviously dead.
 

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