Charcoal Canister Delete?

Cody Forbes cody at 5000tq.com
Mon Jun 11 20:58:55 PDT 2012


Yes. Non-PZEVs have lesser quality fuel systems, lesser quality cats, and fuel tanks that are not sealed.

-Cody Forbes

On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:32 PM, Mark Rosenkrantz <speedracer.mark at gmail.com> wrote:

> But are the cars actually different in "pzev" configuration?
> 
> Mark Rosenkrantz
> Typos sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:50 PM, TWFAUST at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Double  checking on this, currently it is actually not legal to sell a PZEV 
>> in most  states. In fact it is only legal for sale in nine states and only 
>> really sold  in five. This is because the EPA does not recognize PZEV as 
>> existing, it's is  a California only thing that was adopted by four other 
>> states and the EPA  allows sale by dealers that are within a certain distance of 
>> the border of  those states.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have had a lot of dealings with the EPA, all of them dismal. For what it  
>> is worth the establishing legislation permits states to impose standards 
>> more  restrictive than EPA, but not less so.
>> 
>> The one good thing about state standards, at least generally, if you are  
>> ordered to make "repairs" failure results in a fine. Generally, the fines are 
>> far less than the cost of repairs over most peoples expected lifetimes. So 
>> they  just add on the fines to part of the yearly cost of doing business. 
>> For example,  a guy I know owns a scrap yard. He was recently hit with a 
>> clean up order that  would have set him back about $150,000, he would have to 
>> mortgage his house to  pay it. He is 58 and makes about $50,000 a year, the 
>> fine is $2,300 a year.  He is just going to pay the fines.
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