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State Inspections

Some of you might consider Georgia. But, I miss Texas.
Georgia only checks emissions.
Absolutely nothing else.
And, I've heard but not pursued, that two failures with attempts to correct 
only results in a waiver.
At 09:23 PM 2/13/04 +0000, ATS - Patrick Bureau wrote:

>must be a california inspection thing, in texas, they dont care about such 
>things..
>they check.. humm lets see.. Ah Yeah... Steering, wheels,.Healights, brake 
>lights, flahers, and horn... you could have a 445 under the hood, they 
>only care if it passes emissions...lol
>
>ATS - Patrick Bureau - 85 2L, 102.5 whp, 121 ft/lbs torque
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>----- Original Message -----
>Yank it but don't loose it... This warm air box pushes around $200 at the
>stealership and you need it to pass visual inspections. The plastic
>coupling hose is kinda expensive and the fiber covered warm air hose from
>the manifold is ridiculously expensive also...
>
>My setup lives in a box for 23 months.
>
>-Raffi
>
>
>At 05:40 PM 2/12/2004, David Utley wrote:
> >The thing from the exhaust is a heat stove to help the engine get up to
> >temperature faster (for emissions)...  I personally would yank it and try to
> >optimize the intake air and see what happens...  Take that T off there at
> >the least, I think that is very restrictive...
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >Regards,
> >David Utley
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> >[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Chad Eatock
> >Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:16 PM
> >To: scirocco list
> >Subject: Air intake on 16v
> >
> >hEY Y'ALL,
> >Wuz up?  I was just gonna do a little mod on my air intake by putting the
> >intake in front of the rad behind the front grille but I suddenly realized
> >that it is different than my 8v.  the big hose coming out of the airbox goes
> >to a collector box thingy that meets up with another hose coming off the
> >exhaust manifold....can anybody tell me what thats for?  and also is there
> >any sense in changing the position of the air intake to maximize airflow?
> >or is it set up optimally as it is?  my 8v air intake was lower than this
> >and exposed to the elements...but this one seems different...any comments?
> >Chadster '87 16v
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