[DML] Re: Plug Gaps and final smog numbers
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[DML] Re: Plug Gaps and final smog numbers



No, passed. I have to recheck my numbers though. I am on vacation 
and may have mixed them up since I wrote from memory...

Nathan
--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxx> 
wrote:
>
> That's failing I assume at the 15 mph mark? Have you checked the 
> adjustment on your miro switch? If it is turning off too late you 
will 
> not get vacuum advance at the lower RPM and the idle motor is 
still 
> trying to function. The specs are in the manual. This is a very 
> sensative adjustment - too late a turn off - you get just-off-idle 
poor 
> performance - too early - no dash-pot effect coming off higher 
rpms 
> (the engine wants to die before it levels off to idle).
> 
> Harold McElraft - 3354
> 
> 
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "valleyrat12" <valleyrat12@xxxx> 
wrote:
> >
> > I examined the plugs that I pulled from my car when I did a tune-
up. 
> > They are gapped at .018! Could this have been the cause of my 
poor 
> > performance on the way back from Colorado?  (I gapped the new 
plugs 
> to 
> > 0.30) Since the tune up I took the car over the hill on the 405 
> > between West LA and Sherman Oaks, great performance! Even in 5th 
gear 
> > at lower RPM I had good power and acceleration, on target for 
what I 
> > thought this car would be capable of. Not awesome, but adequate.
> > 
> > For those of you who were following my on going CA smog crisis, 
here 
> > are the final numbers:
> > 
> > NOx 15MPH 1098
> >     25MPH  456
> > 
> > Nathan
> >
>








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