help me pass aircare!

[marc_scirocco at sympatico.ca (marc_scirocco Québec)]

To pass aircare, I used to install a new airfilter, get a full tank of the
ethanol mix sold at mohawk, then drive back and forth like a madman on hwy1
from Vancouver to Horseshoe Bay.

It also needs to fire on all four cylinders. Check your plugs, plug wires,
distributor cap/rotor.

Adjust your timing to stock specification.

To properly adjust your mixture, you need a gas analyser. Unless you played
with it over the year, this should not need adjustment.

Cheers, and good luck!

Marc
'83 Scirocco
'97 A4 Quattro

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]De la part de Vince
> Envoy? : mercredi 3 d?cembre 2003 00:23
> ? : scirocco list
> Objet : help me pass aircare!
>
>
> Phew, what a long day. I finally pimped enough hoes and got the
> rocco goin'
> again. I gave it an oil change/tune up and took it through aircare. First
> they wouldn't test it because my ebrake doesn't work or rather is
> missing. I
> had to just screw down an A2 lever and hose-clamp the arm to the
> cables  so
> they wouldn't notice. So they tested it and it failed miserably!
> doh. I was
> really surprised because it passed by a large margin last year.
>
> 1.7L 8V w/ CIS Basic no O2
>
> Heres the results:
>
>
> ----------max-------mycar-----pass/fail
>
> driving
>
> HC-------301--------125-------pass
> CO-------2.29-------0.91------pass
> NOX------3220-------3377------fail
>
> idle
>
> HC-------412--------468-------fail
> CO-------4.63-------8.78------fail
>
>
> My idle was a little low (750ish), a mechanic friend said to turn
> that up to
> 1000 for aircare. He also said to lean out the mixture and pull
> back timing
> a bit, and go through again and it should pass. I raised the idle and was
> gonna go back through but they were just closed!
>
> Aircare is $24 each time and insurance is $30/day so I can only give this
> one more chance - I'm tapped.
>
> So after 8 hours and $1500, still no plates, argh.  Here's a pic
> to show the
> action:
>
> http://www.performancecarstereo.com/boxpics/atwork.jpg
>
> Any insights?
>
> Vince
>
>
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