Re: Crazy idea...

Posted by HH56 On 2011/12/4 15:49:29

As mods go, the PCV was not too big a deal for most. A few of the cars did run rich and changed air filters more frequently. There were some aftermarket kits available which made the job fairly easy though. Fortunately, that is one thing already on the car.

My issue was with the NOx device. My 70 Grand Prix did not like it. A car that ran beautifully in the 4 months before it was installed ran hot, knocked and barely had power to pull some of the San Francisco hills afterwards. Didn't even calculate any mileage changes.

Anyway, put up with that for about a year before I started a job which provided a company car. Only had room for one car so transferred the Pontiac to my aunt who lived in a less controlled air district. Since it was already CA registered then, we were able have the thing removed and re registered without it. She drove & had the car at her place another 14 years & it ran beautifully without that little crap module.

I don't remember how much of a pass the Japanese cars got. I know there were issues with some and those models usually had trouble passing the more stringent checks down here in the valley. They did get some kind of a waiver though because there was a limit on how much an owner was obligated to spend trying to make it pass before it was "grandfathered" for a length of time. Of course, that was only if the car had not been tampered with. If any of the controls were missing or disabled, sky was the limit on fixing back to stock and trying to make it pass again or else it didn't get re registered period.