So, I took my car to a smog shop in Marin today to try a smog pre-test. After reading a ton, and finally understanding how to set timing on my Z, I decided to see what the car was doing. I am happy to say, the car looks good, I don't think it will have a problem passing smog! Yay!!!!!!! Now, I did have to pull out a few tricks to get the numbers inline where they should be, mostly being, I retarded the timing a bit as per recommended from a smog shop on how to help older cars pass, and I'm guessing if I could manage to find new cats, I would pass without having to retard the timing at all. I think what happened: at first, I was off a timing tooth, then I was way too advanced then I tried with my hi-flow cats, and those just aren't very good at reducing emission numbers. It was all self inflicted. Like all good problems. So, I am feeling much better. Here are the numbers My initial failed compared to today's run HC prev - 15mph - meas 146, max 59 <== fail today - 15mph - meas 27, max 59 <== pass prev - 25mph - meas 80, max 34 <== fail today - 25mph - meas 17, max 34 <== pass CO prev - 15mph - meas .34, max .34 <== pass today - 15mph - meas .07, max .34 <== pass prev - 25mph - meas .10, max .32 <== pass today - 25mph - meas .05, max .32 <== pass NO prev - 15mph - meas 1167, max 484 <== fail today - 15mph - meas 93, max 484 <== pass prev - 25mph - meas 159, max 498 <== pass today - 25mph - meas 39, max 498 <== pass
These are interesting in the fact it shows what back to back runs look like in terms of getting the cats hot. It's pretty dramatic. The first run the car had sat for about 15 min before the test started, the 2nd run was only about 2 min of sitting before he ran the test again. Cats not hot
Cats hot
WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!! @#%#&@((*&^!#
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