Tim,

Do you have any proof that 30+ year old cars are required to have their
original smog equipment in California?

I've been dealing with CA smog for quite some (I used to have a smog license
many years ago) and this is a new one for me.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Tim Olmstead
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 10:58 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: CAT vs EGR (or both?)

If you are in CA you need to have all the emissions components that came
on the vehicle from the factory. After you have them they need to function
properly :)
Believe it or not even the exempt (1975 and earlier) vehicles are required
to have all of the emissions equipment that they were born with. These
vehicles are only exempt from bi-annual testing not from emissions
standards. Example: if you had a 1973 VW Westfalia that was noticeably
smoking and a police officer pulled you over and wrote you a ticket you
would eventually receive a notice to take your vehicle to an emissions
test station. If they found you did not have all the emissions equipment
and you could not afford to purchase, install and make functional, the
SoCA could require you to crush your vehicle. Sad to say though true.

Tim

> Is there anyone out there passing CA smog without the EGR stuff in place?
>
> maybe just a nice tight exhaust system and a brand new CAT would do the
> trick, or should I just start working now to find all of these parts?
>
> I need a crossover pipe, CAT, and all of the EGR stuff currently. (thats
> whats missing anyway)
>
> the EGR stuff is all blocked off, almost looking like it never came with
> it,
> but from the Mcode I guess it did at some point.
>
> I just wasnt sure if one of those systems would be effective enough in
> reducing emitions to warrant skipping the other.
>
> thanks for any leads
>
> cr
>
>