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- From: damong@wpi.WPI.EDU (Damon F. Gentile)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Q: how do i know if i need a new catalytic converter?
- Message-ID: <1k7e8tINNs9f@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 01:52:29 GMT
- References: <2577@shaman.wv.tek.com> <1993Jan27.162959.223@osf.org> <C1J9zD.31G@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- In article <C1J9zD.31G@news.cso.uiuc.edu> cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Chintan Amin) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan27.162959.223@osf.org> kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:
-
- >>See what happens when Eco-Nazi's and overzealous greenies take over? There
- >>is absolutely no reason a BMW dealer or independent shop couldn't have done
- >>that work.
- >>
- >>Stupid assholes. There ain't enough money in the world to get me to move
- >>out to one of those greenhead states out West. (Good thing there ain't no
- >>spotted owls out here in Mass, or I'd go out and shoot one right now.)
- >>
- >> -Kenny
- >>
- >>p.s. - of course, now that I've thought about it, this could have been pro-
- >>paganda- why couldn't he have sold it in another state without green-shit-
- >>for-brains lawmakers, who would allow the cat to be retrofitted?
- >>--
- >>Kenny Crudup, Contractor, OSF DCE QA
- >>OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142 +1 617 621 7306
- >>kenny@osf.osf.org OSF has nothing to do with this post.
- >> Religion: The longest-running gag ever played on Mankind.
- >
- > Uh, Kenneth, did you ever think that maybe the Government of the
- >owner's state has an eye out for the safety and health of not just the planet,
- >but the states residents? And as I remember, the law is a FEDERAL STATUTE, so
- >it applies in Boston too. I have NO sympathy for any asshole who, to drop
- >1/10 sec in 0-60 times, removes the catalytic converter. Oh, and BTW, good
- >use of the word "ain't", it makes you look even more credible...
- > Notice the absence of ":-)'s".
- > Chintan Amin
- >--
- >Chintan Amin Internet: c-amin1@uiuc.edu ->EVERYTHING I.M.H.O.<-
- >The University NeXTMail: cka52397@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu
- >of Illinois "Do we have to be forgiving at last? What else can we do?
- >Urbana Do we have to say goodbye to the past? Yes, I guess we do." <N.Peart
-
- Nope sorry there big guy. I have a 74 with a converter on it, and my
- converter has had it. So, I'm just going to get me a header that totally
- bypasses the catalytic unit altogether. TOTALLY legal here in Mass, and last
- time I checked, Massachusetts was in the US. Emissions requirements you ask ?
- sorry... don't have to even get tested on em.
-
- Think of me with a 12% increase in horesepower and faster 0-60 times when
- you start to choke and gag.
-
- After all, my converter isn't doing anything now anyway. =)
-
- cough cough hack wheeze carbon monoxide in the breeze !
-
- Damon Gentile damong@wpi.wpi.edu 73077.2420@compuserve.com
-