Fw: How to pass emmissions

["Jeremiah Curry" <jeremiahcurry@sprintmail.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremiah Curry <jeremiahcurry@sprintmail.com>
To: Martin Pajak <urquattro@wave.home.com>
Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: How to pass emmissions


>how would one change these settings?
>
>thanks,
>Jeremiah
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Pajak <urquattro@wave.home.com>
>To: Jeremiah Curry <jeremiahcurry@sprintmail.com>
>Date: Sunday, June 13, 1999 8:31 PM
>Subject: Re: How to pass emmissions
>
>
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>>
>>Jeremiah,
>>
>>>     My car just went in for emissions testing and failed.  NO readings
>too
>>> high.  Probably due to very high flow cat (wink, wink, nudge nudge).
>They
>>> said it is close enough they might get it to pass.  What might help?
oil
>>> change?  premium techron?
>>>
>>
>>Retarding the timing.
>>Try 3 degrees after TDC.
>>That was the original setting on all non cat equipped Coupe's in Canada to
>>avoid having to put cats on.
>>Once they had to the timing went back to normal 3-6 degrees before TDC.
>>BTW this was how my 4kq passed with a punched cat and 400,000 km on the
>clock.
>>
>>I did not do any tune-ups nor an oil change.  I thought I'll try and it
>passed
>>perfectly.
>>
>>HTH
>>--
>>Martin Pajak
>>
>>http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/5939
>>
>>1983 Audi Ur-quattro (220,000 km)
>>1986 Audi 4000 S Quattro (398,000 km) with 5 bolt pattern
>>
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