RE: Do I still need a CAT? Cali car in NON-Cali state

["Neal Tovsen" <sixteen.volt@verizon.net>]

Actually, AFAIK removing ANY factory-installed emissions equipment is
technically illegal, even if other cars of the same model/year weren't
equipped with them. Granted, if SC has inspections, they might not know to
look for it...

Either way, it would seem we're splitting legal hairs to no real benefit. We
all know a good CAT has little or no performance decrease, right? If the CAT
is bad and money is the issue, we all know you can still pass most
inspections with a missing or gutted CAT, right? So, what is the goal here?
If you want to be legal, you can't remove it. If you don't care, do whatever
you want!

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Collins
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 1:48 AM
> To: Andre Bjorkheim
> Cc: Scirocco List; krwilkes@earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: Do I still need a CAT? Cali car in NON-Cali state
>
>
> Andre Bjorkheim wrote:
>
> > A buddy of mine (Keith Wilkes) has a 1980 Scirocco
> (California model)
> > car whilst living in South Carolina & he's wondering if he
> can remove
> > the CAT.  Apparently in 1980 no S.C. cars had catalytic
> converters ..<snip>
>
> SOME cars may not have had cat's in '80, but they were
> mandatory on almost
> all cars sold in the US starting in 1975.  A few were able to
> pass without
> one.. early Hondas among them.. but most everything else got them.
>
> Only way to know for sure is to check current SC vehicle code
> and see if
> yanking it is legal.  If indeed the non-California cars of
> the era never
> had a cat in the first place, one would think it would be OK
> to not have
> one today..
>
>
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> '00 Passat GLS 1.8T
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