[Healeys] SMOG TESTS SB 1549 Senate Bill

Richard Ewald richard.ewald at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 21:59:06 MST 2008


The numbers I posted were idle readings.  You idle HC is a little higher,
your idle CO is a bit lower, and you CO2 is right were I guessed it would
be.  Overall not a bad guess I would say.
It is possible that with a little bit fatter idle the CO would go up and the
HC would go down, but it is hard to say without being right there playing
with the engine.

Rick

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Leonard Hartnett <thehartnetts at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Richard:  For your comparison purposes, the last SMOG test required on my
> BJ8
> in July, 1997, produced the following readings:
>
> 2500 RPM
> MAX ALLOWABLE HC PPM: 600
> MEASURED: 112
> MAX ALLOWABLE C0 %:  4.5
> MEASURED:  4.07
> CO2:  11.3
>
> IDLE RPM
> MAX ALLOWABLE HC PPM:  700
> MEASURED:  671
> MAX ALLOWABLE CO %:  5.5
> MEASURED:  5.03
> CO2:  8.2
>
> (The Other) Len
> Vacaville,  California,  USA
> 1967 3000 MKIII, HBJ8L39031
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Richard Ewald
>  To: Alan Seigrist
>  Cc: Leonard Hartnett ; Healey Mail List
>  Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 8:48 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Healeys] SMOG TESTS SB 1549 Senate Bill
>
>
>  See right here is the crux of the problem.  A very dirty car (A big
> Healey
> for example) puts out a very high amount of carbon monoxide, and unburnt
> hydrocarbons.  I've never had a 3000 on a smog machine, but I have had
> plenty
> of MGs and Sprites.  They love to run about 7-8% CO when set up right, and
> the
> HC at maybe 300-500 PPM.
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