I know.
they just stick the probe in the tail pipe. in many areas.
that's what they do in Oregon where I am anyway ..

I drove a Subaru-vanagon into the  smog check station once upon a time...
...
was a little nervous because it wasn't my car, doing a favor for the owner
who was in Hawaii...
and it didn't have a stock engine ..
I drove in, I roll down the window and the guy says '2,500 rpm.'
I do that.
then he comes to the window  again and says 'let it idle'.
then the next time he comes to my driver's door window he says " $ 15 " ..
that was 'it' !!
lol.
very nice low emissions too. I got the printout.

No, I sure do not expect that smog techs will go fiddling with undoing the
Idle Stabilizer on 1.9 waterboxers usually these days. Just quoting what the
spec sticker says.

and the old grumpy german guy that used to work there ...
I drove an SVX Vanagon in there for a 'volunteer test' ...just a free
sniff...
he grumbles....'that is not a VW engine !!' .
but he sniffed it and it was super fine and 100 % legal.  lol.

what fun !
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Wolz" <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: Last gasp: low compression exhaust valve can't pass smog

>I never had inspectors disconnect the idle stab unit back when the van had
>a
> 1.9.
>
> Thinking about it, I haven't had them open the engine compartment in about
> 20 years.
>
> Karl Wolz
>
> |
> |The spec sticker on my 85 Adventurwagon Ca model says '850 + or minus 50
> |rpm, Idle Stabilizer Disconnected'
> |so I would think the smog person, or machine ,would check emissions at
> idle
> |in that range.
> |but you can try.
> |