On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@vickersdesign.com>wrote:

>
> Ditto as well on the stupid smog rules in California. The latest
> debacle seems to be that the window for the SVX might be closing
> because somebody in Sacramento has decided to make the refs enforce
> the "manual tranny" rule for the SVX. The car was only produced with
> automatics. Doh.
>
> Jeff
>
>
  It's no wonder that California has such big problems.  They have literally
millions of State-paid petty bureaucrats enforcing all their laws and
standards..They pay all those people with state funds and charge everyone
else for their salaries. Stuff like those silly engine swap smog rules..
And then they wonder why masses of smarter people are moving out of that
state, and their tax base seems to keep shrinking while their bureaucracies
seem to keep growing..

  Let's all hope that if other US states adopt California air quality
standards, they'll do it in a smarter way than the California Air Resources
Board, or whatever they call that ridiculous agency down there.  Air quality
standards should actually take into consideration the Air Quality.... the
amount of pollutants that are emitted by a vehicle.. rather than some
convoluted set of rules devised by a combo of special interests and career
politicians.

  I'd guess just about any modern engine of similar displacment should be
able to run a little cleaner than a WBX motor and yet so many are
'prohibited' by California's CARB arcane rules..."just because...(no real
reason..)

  Don Hanson