Re: emissions

[STEADIRIC@aol.com]

>Last spring, the cat on my father's '82 Coupe went kaputt.  Most of the
>interior honey-combing was loose and rattling around.  Well, he just took 
>the cat off the car, dumped out all the loose material, and put it back on.
>He took the car to be tested about 2 months ago, and absolutely crushed
>my '85 GT in emissions.  The FL limit on HC production is something like
>225 ppm (don't quote me on that :-), and his test resulted in under 10 ppm
>(not 100, 10!).  My car comes in around 100 ppm.  He was blown away, because
>he expected to come in a lot closer to the limit (his car ran that cleanly
>before the cat went, so I guess enough catalyst is still there to
>handle the load).
>
>Just another story of one of the many > 300k Audi's cruisin' the streets.
>
>Later,
>Eric


I hear you on this, My '81 Coupe has not had a cat in it for over 4 years and
every year it passes the Missouri emission's test without fail.

Long live the Audi!!

Eric Fletcher
'81 Coupe w/330k Miles 
'87 5000CS Turbo Quattro