I have a '66B with a newly rebuilt PCV (original mushroom looking affair).
The engine is not yet in the car as I am getting ready to paint it. Since
my car is now exempt from California SMOG, should I put it back on? Is
there any value to the performance or was it just to satisfy some
regulation?
Doug Gaither
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Vanner [SMTP:PVanner@pclink.com]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 1998 7:53 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: NYS Emissions
I'm not advocating anything Illegal...but you could cheat and register the
'71's VIN and drive the 74 - who checks the VIN?
Seriously, the PCV-valve-only cars have a mushroom shaped valve that sits
on the top of a little pipe that rises up from the intake manifold. This
valve is connected to the canister (oil separator) on the front of the
timing cover. I have heard this described as simply a one-way valve
(crankcase to intake manifold only) so a generic ought to work.
Motorhead lists the correct valve at 35.00 and the diaphragm in the valve
at about 7.00 if I remember correctly, so the real thing isn't too
expensive.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: Nory [SMTP:Nory@webtv.net]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 1998 9:19 AM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net; mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: NYS Emissions
On an automobile tech call-in show over the weekend, I heard some
details about New York's new emissions requirements (outside of NYC).
It appears that my '71 is exempt (over 26 years old), but the '74 is
not. From what they were saying, it doesn't sound like I need to put
back all the pollution equipment (air pump, etc.). Apparently all it's
required to have is a PVC valve (has anyone else heard this?).
Now for the dumb question. This car was de-smogged before I got it, so
I don't even know if it has a PCV valve. If it does, it's certainly not
where it is on my 'murican cars. Does it still have one, or would it
have been removed with the rest of the smog stuff? If it should still
have one, where the heck is it installed? If it doesn't have one, can I
buy a $3.00 PCV valve at Autozone and splice it in to a hose somewhere?
Or am I looking at big bucks just to put one in? Maybe I'm better off
parking it until 2000, when it will be exempt, and putting the '71 back
together to use now? By the time I put the '71 back together the '74
will probably be legal!
-NORY
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