Passed SMOG with ease - again

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Aug 17, 2007 | 02:01 PM

MartyC

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Passed SMOG with ease - again

Bonne' has 120k miles on it now. It could use a new IM gasket, and work on a few leaks, but it passed smog check with flying colors - again. This is the cleanest burning engines of all my cars.

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Result = CO2 / O2 / HC / CO / NO
15mph : 15.0 / .06 / 3.0 / .01 / 32
25mph : 15.1 / .04 / 1.0 / 0.0 / 74

Aug 17, 2007 | 02:15 PM

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Back in the day these engine were the lowest friction engines of the time.... They were also designed with emissions in mind... The piston rings were closer to the top of the piston to help reduce hydrocarbon emissions... When you put a functional O2, Good Cat and an engine that was designed to be a lower emissions engine.... You end up with a pretty clean burning motor...

Things improved with the L27'* and got even cleaner with the L36

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Aug 17, 2007 | 03:08 PM

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Yeah, even past 200k miles the SSE was one heck of a clean burning engine.

Aug 17, 2007 | 03:23 PM

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mine passed with ease and she has well bout 300000 now she had 279000 when i got her tested

Aug 17, 2007 | 04:48 PM

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mine passed with ease and she has well bout 300000 now she had 279000 when i got her tested

Now the question is were they shocked to see an engine that old with that many miles do so well or have they seen a lot of 3800'* run clean...

Lets face it, even tho the technology is old.... These were and still are Great engines