Also, as I told those guys, selling and buying used cats is actually highly illegal and you’ll never (legally) see one for sale in a junkyard.

Believe it or not, the PCV system is actually really important as far as actual emissions reduction. PCV was the first emissions control device ever implemented. Before the pcv, cars just had “draft tubes” that would dump out crankcase pressure to the atmosphere. What fills your crankcase is really a lot of unburned…

Because it’s illegal to buy or sell used catalytic converters. This is why you’ll never see one in a junkyard here.

It is illegal to buy, sell, or use a used catalytic converter, no matter the condition. This is rigorously enforced in CA. Consequently, you won’t be able to get one from any junkyards.

That has little to do with the scarcity of petroleum.

You mean it was able to pass the sniffer with flying colors.

The sniffer is easy compared to a visual unless you have both a strange desire to keep a 76-96 factory stock, and the money and resources to find all the exact replacement parts that don’t need an E.O. number.

You nailed it except the blame lies on the big aftermarket manufacturers. They want it this way. SEMA actually lobbied for the E.O. process in the 80s. They did this because they could sell parts at inflated prices, and also because the entry fee (carb approval costs 10s of thousands of dollars) is too steep for the…

What a lot of non-car people and non-Californians don’t understand about the California smog check is that the problem is mostly not the sniffer test.
Virtually any car can pass a sniffer with high quality catalytic converters. Ensuring that your fuel system is sealed, and evaporative emissions are controlled is pretty…

They’ve said that how many times now? The numbers keep getting revised.

Nothing is going to get bad. Scores of alternatives already exist, they just aren’t as cost effective as petroleum.
That said, none of us will see the end of petroleum, our kids won’t either.

Who said that the plants had to be food, or even farmed conventionally?

Anything that grows can be turned into fuel. Anything. Even your lawn clippings.

Yes.
Every time I read stories like this (concerning fuels) I can’t help but think how little people know about science.
Virtually anything can be turned into a fuel, especially anything that grows. People that paid attention in General Chemistry should have figured this out.

Yeah, actually most places don’t start Gen Y until ‘82 or later. I was born at the tail end of the 70s and I can tell you I’m 100% gen X.
My feeling is if you can’t remember when the TV stations would sign off at night and play a cheesy video to the national anthem, you are a Millenial.

Agree with you 100%. I was born the same year and there is no way in hell I am anything like a Millenial. I clearly remember the TV stations shutting off around midnight with a national anthem, no internet, listening to Guns N Roses and (later) Nirvana on casette, and going to car meets where the biggest wheels were…

Whatever it was that happened, I’m glad that the pilots didn’t succumb to normalcy bias as has happened multiple times with depressurization events that ended up killing people. You can’t play games with that shit. Descend ASAP while you still have the mental faculties to do so, and then try to figure out if you have…

Camero? CamEro?
With spelling like that you must be American. I don’t buy this “grew up in Europe” mumbo jumbo for a second.

Who told you this stuff?

It depends on what your t type looks like. In my case, mine is all white, with body color bumpers. I get a lot of people that tell me I have a really cool Monte Carlo.
And then the real car guys tell me what a badass “GNX” I have.
Only about 1 person out of a thousand recognizes it as a T type.

Only 84 and 85 were hot air cars. The 86 and 87 cars were intercooled and were really the cars that became legendary.

The problem is that I get so used to Euro fanboy types (that think they know about cars)constantly dogging on American cars and American engineering when they really don't know squat about either.
To me, your post was dripping with this sort of anti American car nonsense. You *did* comment on the amount of power…

Haha, you could have saved some face and just said you weren't well versed in this topic.