RE: TAP chip - How would they know?

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

As Phil Payne has reported they even have portable 4WD rolling roads ... and
we were closer than most people know to having state run testing centers
here in California that had AWD dynos ... they aren't completely outside the
range of possibilities.  

... other states do have such facilities ...

Another thing that they were trying here in the area was portable emissions
testers that sat on freeway ramps and took pictures of vehicles that had
excessive emissions.  I actually saw the setup at a ramp near where I live
...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 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
>