I removed some parts. Did I screwup?

[rocco16v at netzero.net (L F)]

Dave,
  The only source of vacuum in/on our cars is the intake system.  The intake system is a direct path to the combustion chambers, so the gasoline vapors are very efficiently consumed when the engine is started.
  While I disagree with 98% of the environmentalist's pet programs, this is one (charcoal canister) that doesn't seem to hurt performance (power OR mileage) in any way.  So, I'd leave it operational if I could.

Larry
sandiego16v
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Ewing 
  To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:34 AM
  Subject: Re: I removed some parts. Did I screwup?


  > The cannister holds the fumes from the gas tank. Once you start the car
  the
  > engine sucks air through the cannister and purges any gas fumes by burning
  > them in the engine. This restores the capacity of the cannister.
  > I think it's always good to understand how things really work before
  > disabling or modifying them.

  Sorry but I didn't see anyway that the fumes would be sucked back out into
  the motor especially with the way the vacuum lines were set up.  The fumes
  would have to go through the vacuum distributor or amplifier which has a
  type of booster type rubber diaphram in it (if I remember correctly).  So,
  if this was suppose to work dependably then they wouldn't have gas fumes in
  contact with rubber.  Sounds like a great theory and you may be right, Dan,
  but it doesn't hold water with me.  Sounds like a bunch of theories to make
  the environmentalists think we are trying to prevent global warming which
  isn't happening.

  I believe it's always good to understand how things REALLY work before
  disabling or modifying them!

  Dave


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