Clobberator Choice for Smog Check

[FElony]

Just needs to be the right diesel.   One that smokes like a proper 1970's diesel.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK_Ukv3wr88

aargh cough cough puke aargh puke gasp sweat pause cough cough cough die

[FElony]

They gave up on smog checks here in Michigan, but back when we had to do it, I knew an accommodating test station operator that'd simply input my car information while running some other car twice. I may have had the cleanest 427 in the county---at least on paper.

KS

I did that in California when I lived there, as tests were performed by licensed auto repair shops. My neighbor had one, and I used to run my '86 3.8 EFI Cougar through for 8 cars I actually had running and registered (amazing, huh). He did this for a lot of people. He was about to get busted for the third time, which would have meant a mandatory stay in the pokey, so he sold the biz to his manager and bailed to an acre lot in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, he had bought a couple years before. Always one step ahead, he was.

Here in AZ all the testing is done by the state. No cheating.

[e philpott]

when Ohio had E-Test on the trouble makers we would run gas tank down to 1/4 tank and add two bottle of rubbing alcohol from the local grocery store and then drive straight to E-Test station and pass

[FElony]

When we used to do in in Massachusetts it was an idle test only, timing retarded (stock specs usually did it), engine good and hot, carb adjusted correctly.  Timing was the biggest component for a good running engine

I know they can flunk you on equipment, too. PCV I can cover. Smog pump may or may not be a factor. They do check gas caps. I'd like to see them open the gas door and find no cap or hose. Better yet, I need to video the tester climbing over the roll bar and staring at the Winters shifter. The whole damn failure might be worth the fee just to get it recorded.

[FElony]

when Ohio had E-Test on the trouble makers we would run gas tank down to 1/4 tank and add two bottle of rubbing alcohol from the local grocery store and then drive straight to E-Test station and pass

Cool. That's probably what's in that bottle I referred to earlier. Just more expensive.

[TomP]

I had to go through smog tests here with a bottle of methyl hydrate added to the gas. Retarding timing won't always he;f. T used a Holley off an 84 Mustang GT, those have annual primaries and make a clean idle and much better gas mileage than the normal 600.

 But bribery works too.

[FElony]

I had to go through smog tests here with a bottle of methyl hydrate added to the gas. Retarding timing won't always he;f. T used a Holley off an 84 Mustang GT, those have annual primaries and make a clean idle and much better gas mileage than the normal 600.

 But bribery works too.

I think I have one of those carbs, off my old '83 460 F250. Forgot all about it. Thanks!

[BattlestarGalactic]

Just needs to be the right diesel.   One that smokes like a proper 1970's diesel.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK_Ukv3wr88

aargh cough cough puke aargh puke gasp sweat pause cough cough cough die

What??      LOL!!


Luckily the neighbors were still in Florida for the winter when I fired it off for the first time. I walked around the corner and the smoke was just hanging in their backyard.  Ooops.  It does fill the garage when I need to get it out, as I have to build air before I can release the brakes.  The fun of owning 1960's technology.