[TR] emission standards?

Bob Danielson 75TR6 at tr6.danielsonfamily.org
Thu Jan 29 11:00:40 MST 2009


Randall.... Right you are on violating Federal law but the practicality of
it is that many of the emissions control parts for our cars are no longer
available. Or if a rebuilt part is available, like an air pump, does it meet
stock standards? If I make up my own diverter valve or injector tube have I
now "messed" with the system and violated some other law? 

I think the reality is that no one (the Feds) probably ever thought that
this many 30+ year old cars built by a company long out of business would
still be around and in as good condition as many of them are. Part
availability is better now then when they were new but there are parts no
longer available. I guess I'll have to confine my retirement state looking
to those with friendly classic car requirements.

Though the Federal prison here in CT is supposed to be quite comfy ;-)


Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection
Toyota 5 Speed & Nissan LSD
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org 

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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [TR] emission standards?

> My car
> came with emissions equipment which is now long gone

Which of course means that you are violating Federal law.  Most of the area
distinctions you outline are merely whether the states choose to enforce the
Federal law or not, and in what fashion they do so.

And IMO there is some sense to that.  Los Angeles, for example, has a huge
smog problem, caused in large part by our geography.  We effectively live in
a 3-sided fish bowl, with the prevailing winds coming from the 4th side and
trapping both the natural hydrocarbons that rise from the ground around here
plus the effluent of some 13 million people and their cars.  It seems
reasonable to me that we spend rather more money and time trying to limit
emissions than people living in, say, Adams county ND (population under
3000, located on a windswept plain, no oil deposits at all).  (Not that
there is anything wrong with that.)

>  So not only don't we have a Historic Vehicle Club to lobby for us

Actually, there are several organizations that do lobby for us.  The AACA
for example, SEMA for another.

> but we don't even have consistent standards across the states.

Which is something of a holdover from the United States originally being
organized as a rather loose federation of semi-autonomous states.  Rather
more comparable to the EU today, than the UK, IMO.
 
Randall
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