At 12:22 AM 4/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Can anyone tell me which engine would do better in an emissions test, a
>diesel (from vanagon) or the equilivant gas engine from a jetta/gulf...
>ect. I would imagine the gas would do better, but I really don't know too
>much about diesels. Also, are testing procedures the same for the two.
>
>Erik O
>87' Syncro Westy Camper

        There is no way to compare the two, a diesel does not produce the
gases that are tested for durring a smog test.  As an added note, coming
from a family mining background, a diesel can be run in a mine (with a cat
or water based oil trap on the exaust).  There is no way to ever make a
gasoline engine clean enough to run in a mine. The positive "enviro" aspects
of the diesel engine are one of the reasons that I am a diesel nut (I also
like the way that they sound, they sound like they have a purpose).