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Re: Anti-backfire valve

To: "Chianese" <chianese@sprintmail.com>,
Subject: Re: Anti-backfire valve
From: snyler <marc@animalfirm.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:19:36 -0500
Chianese wrote

>You can remove all that plumbing, valves and the pump without feeling like
>an ecological pariah; the car will put out the same quantity of CO and NOx
>regardless of the concentration in the exhaust pipe.  In fact, since you
>don't have to expend power to run the air pump, you will actually pollute
>less by removing it.
>
>Rick Chianese
>Orlando, FL
>SRL311-14035
Wasn't the injected air meant to burn unburnt hydrocarbons in the exhaust 
stream?  Not to say it worked particularly well, but it was meant to be 
more than simply dilution I think.

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