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OT: ETest/ A2s are good for something

Ayup, I gots a big driveway, and friends with barns....
;)

Tonee Northam wrote:
> Cathy, take Nate up on his offer, store them in Beliot,WI.
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> C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:Okay, so I wasted my whole morning failing the ETest with the cabby, CO
> high (rich), NOX high (lean), HCs okay, so neither excessively rich or
> lean. It needs a cat, which I expected would be the case, but I hear these
> myths of cars passing without. Not my cars.
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> So I was directed to the latest proposed changes in the rules, and 87 and
> older are exempt soon, for good. This drops one troublesome one from the
> list (the 16V, here come the lumpy cams, gross polluting, all that
> stuff...), and one diesel, which is just a cash grab. So that's good, but
> not a change.
> The bad news is that for cars over 12, and newer than 1987, there's a
> proposal to test them annually, forever. At tougher standards. That
> includes my two 88s, which could put me at six etests next year (if they
> all pass without a retest), and four forever. I'll start in August for my
> late Novemeber birthday I guess. (Seriously). I'm really stressed out about
> it. The logistics of getting them in for the test are daunting.
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> SO after kicking the cabby, I decided to help out the son and we yanked two
> A2 dashes side by side, to replace his heater core. I can't explain the
> theraputic value of a parts car. It was another 88. No need for more of
> that shit in my life. 
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> That was my day. The hassle/expense:fun ratio wasn't even close to
> favourable today.
> 
> cathy
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