Jealousy
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From: Southern Cal Ca
St. Jude Donor '22
Jealousy
I envy you non smog state guys. :o
I never should have gotten rid of my 68.
I am so stuck with my 81 and the
it will take to
improve its performance.
Reading some of the improvements here on the smogger cars makes me happy and sad.
keep it up, love too see the upgrades.
I never should have gotten rid of my 68.
I am so stuck with my 81 and the
it will take toimprove its performance.
Reading some of the improvements here on the smogger cars makes me happy and sad.
keep it up, love too see the upgrades.
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I know how you feel. When I moved to Arizona, they exempted any cars older than 1968...I have a '71. Getting that 'puppy' to pass the idle emissions test is a challenge. At least, your '81 has some better "tools" to get emissions under control....unless you don't have all the original components, or one or more of them is 'kaput'. The Chevrolet Chassis Service Manual should have a good write-up on that early computer system/electronic carb and how to set them up. You should get a copy if you don't have one already.
Thread Starter
Team Owner
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 53,648
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From: Southern Cal Ca
St. Jude Donor '22
I know how you feel. When I moved to Arizona, they exempted any cars older than 1968...I have a '71. Getting that 'puppy' to pass the idle emissions test is a challenge. At least, your '81 has some better "tools" to get emissions under control....unless you don't have all the original components, or one or more of them is 'kaput'. The Chevrolet Chassis Service Manual should have a good write-up on that early computer system/electronic carb and how to set them up. You should get a copy if you don't have one already.
Just not a lot of performance mod avail and still pass.
I would like to increase C/R and cam it.
but, I would be flying blind as to how much and still get the sniffer to say good. I do not have the money, time to trial and error.
