paranoid redundancy...?
... don't really know. Polution stuff is my weakest area except when it
comes to removing or circumventing it. I think the air injection helps with
unburned combustion gasses and the CAT deals with exhaust gasses.
Sorry I misunderstood your original question.
"Emily Latella's" (Jay) answer was pretty funny... (oh... nevermind)
Gerard
At 2:36 PM -0500 1/9/02, Dbcooper292@aol.com wrote:
>I wrote:
>
>. it's a 75 and my
>> understanding is the cat came in 77 except california.
>
>
>Gerard wrote:
>
>Nope, other way around. Ca. cars HAVE the CAT others do not.
>
>
>Just want to make it clear I meant the cat came in 77 except in CA where it
>came earlier, 75 I guess. Not a big deal but I didn't want anyone to think I
>thought CA had looser emmissions standards, that would make me pretty ill
>informed. PS that thing about pets killed me, nice work.
>
>Mark M
>
>PPS so my original question still stands, doesn't the air pump provide extra
>oxygen for combustion or whatever in the catalytic converter, and so that CO
>can become CO2 with the additional O, and if this is the reason for the air
>pump why have it without a catalytic converter? it seems you would have the
>same exhaust, plus some air, and the only possible benefit would be the car
>could inflate a hot air balloon faster but would experience greater
>backpressure.
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