[Supras] So..you removed your cat for a 5Hp gain..

[Jeff Mohler]

I agree...but going thru the motions to keep the federal road funds
coming in will make it easy to snag the low hanging fruit.



On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Dan Gyoba
<dgyoba at abstractconsulting.com> wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2008 at 8:49, Jeff Mohler wrote:
>
>  > Just a note..the EPA is looking to lower 'safe ozone' standards, and
>  > critics are saying theyre not low enough.
>
>  Hmmm...  I was under the impression that car emissions aren't really an "ozone" thing.
>  Besides, it's all carbon that's the current eco-trend, and that's directly related to fuel
>  burnt.  Car emissions are more about smog and air quality anyway, aren't they?
>
>  I dislike sounding callous about environmental issues, but I think this is a bullet that I
>  can dodge.  I removed my 20 year old, clogged up and useless cat.  I bought a new exhaust,
>  and installed it with no cats, not so much to "gain 5HP" so much as to save about $300 or
>  so.
>
>  To me, it's the same as buying a hybrid car.  I'd buy a hybrid, or a smart car as my daily
>  commute vehicle, but the extra expense of buying the car makes it impractical for me to do
>  so.  The "conspicuous consumption" of owning more than one car aside, even if I were to
>  (heaven forbid) trade in my Supra, buying the more environmentally friendly vehicle becomes
>  more expensive to own in up-front costs than any potential for fuel savings is going to
>  cost me, and that's with the kind of mileage that I pack onto a car.  (Maybe if I'd picked
>  up a Smart car when they cost $16,000, and not the current $25,000+ it would have been cost
>  effective.)
>
>  Dan Gyoba
>  '89 NA 460,208 kms, Turbo swap COMPLETE
>  http://www.abstractconsulting.com/~dan
>
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