Re: TAP chip - How would they know?

["Aidan McLeer" <Rally3@nstate.net>]

In california  Quattro's are excempt from the IM240 rolling road
test........
(Also are most other full time 4wd's)
Later
Aidan

www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/6185

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolff <quattro200@earthlink.net>
To: Lewis, Gary M <Gary.Lewis@West.Boeing.com>
Cc: quattro@audifans.com <quattro@audifans.com>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: TAP chip - How would they know?


>Lewis, Gary M wrote:
>>
>> John said:
>>
>> > If one subsequently moved to CA, how would they know whether your car
had
>> > a
>> > modified chip or not?
>> >
>> >
>> Excellent question John.  My Scott Mo chipped ECU has passed CA smog
twice,
>> once in the 88 5kcstq, once in the 86 5kcst 5sp.  Even if they looked
(and
>> what kind of knucklehead would except one of us), I can't imagine anyone
>> without specific knowledge of an Audi ECU would know what they were
looking
>> for.
>>
>
>I snogged a qlccv4 (1.8 bar) '88 5kcstq recently. There is no way the
>smog place would have any clue that the e-prom is not stock. Perhaps if
>they had driven it they would have had their suspicions. It passed just
>fine. I'm not sure what would happen if they were to put it on a rolling
>road and ran it up to max power.
>
>How is the load for a rolling road smog determined anyway? A type 44 has
>a low cod so it should need lower power to cruise at freeway speed than
>say a minivan.
>Wolff