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Default What Will GE Force Its People To Drive Now
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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.

Well, as to the emissions crap, if you take it off any new gas engine,
it won't run... Period.

Correct, everything is computer driven. Start unhooking things, and it
won't run.
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