Hello List, I'd like to remind the California roadster owners that current legislation in our State Government would roll back the smog exemption from 1974 to 1960. This would mean all roadsters (wit
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I know that by 1968 roadster had aquired smog pumps and in '70 had the fuel vapor recovery system, but were the earlier ones subject to any polution standards when they were new? What will California
paul and everyone they likely won't be illegal, but they may be required to have all the smog equipment present at the time of manufacture. the 67.5 (at least) had only PCV. when i used to have to ge
You will need to put catalytic converters on them - I bet. They have done something similar in Germany with a very expensive road tax if you dont install a cat on your oldtimer. I think there's some
If the truth be known they, the do gooders and tax raisers, are trying to get all older cars off of the road. They have been picking on the mid '80's cars for some time by mandating "test only" stati
It also rasies the question about those cars that had no smog equipment. The 68-70 cars can be fitted with smog devices if they had been removed, but my 67 and my 64 don't have that capability. One o
I had trouble with Andrew's link and found the bill links at: http://info.sen.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_708&sess=CUR&house=B&site=sen Give it a try. Tom 69 2000 Portland. /// datsun-roa
I don't think cats are the answer for old cars as the mixture has to be exact, or close to it, so they don't burn out. Mike /// datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net mailing list /// Archives at http://www
That is a good idea, but unfortunately it has been around for a long time. When I was a teenager, before I purchased my 68 2 Liter new, my father sold cars and later manages sales for a Lincoln deal
That's not a problem with old cars and catalysts as long as you dont run leaded fuel (if you can still find any). Most high performance cars runs on rich mixture and the cat likes that. If it runs to
I guess the government wants all you guys to move or sell your rust free cars to those of us who live in the rust belt :) I can't wait to see what eBay will look like when the law comes into effect.
When I tried to take my 70 1600 t0 Universal City Nissan years ago, they wouldn't test it because it had no NOX device....What's a NOX device? -Marc In Texas now where it has to be inspected every ye
Ugh. It's two vacuum caps and a sticker. Sold under the brand name Kar Kit; there were probably others out there too. Cap off vacuum advance, which retards timing. The sticker warned not to drive ove