[Jim Bremner]

I've talked to some smog shops for fun and they've told me some tricks that have made cars pass. There's a device on some cars that has a thin film that controls the advancement of the distributor timing. If you defile the strip the car will pass.

Now once the car is " legal" it will get poor gas mileage. Hmm. let's see it's not a gross polluter getting 18 miles to the gallon, but if the car was tuned right it gets 22 miles to the gallon but polluters! I wonder if 34ppm at 18 mpg is less polluting than 37ppm at 22 mpg?

My '67 fastback was excempt from testing put I tested it to learn some stuff.

At idle it was a gross polluter. Once the throttle was opened it was ok and once it was at 25 mph it was way cleaner.

The problem that I have with California's smog law is if it has non approved or missing parts it FAILS.

What if it runs cleaner with those parts? what if it passes sniffing? it doesn't matter.