I heard a rummor that Colorado has done away with the required emission tests for now. Any body able to confirm or deny?

 

check the 73-79 forum for the 73 truck that needs to pass emissions.

In that thread is the explanation.

 

Found it, thanks, it does indeed explain it well. I'm depressed now, I was hoping to drive my 79 f100 to work while I fix my 67 mustang I've been abusing as my daily driver, but the po cut of the catalytic converters so there's no way it'll pass without those. yuk. But thanks again!

 

i wish they would...i am sick of paying $50.00 a year for nothing!!!!

 

They need to keep it, clean air and all is our responsibility.

 

Here in Ohio, they say only 2% of vehicles fail a year, it is more of a hassle, than does anything for the air.

 

Sorry but not true, it has worked and will continue to work.

 

Yeah, I guess I should be looking at the big picture, it's more important to keep the air clean and healthy for our kids and their kids than it is for me to putt around belching unprecedented amounts of smog into the ozone layer because I'm too cheap to buy new cats.....

 

Yeah, they make us tune up the old-timers at least once a year. They even made it a law for us to lock up our guns. Like who doesn't already do that now...

I've never been to Ohio, but I have seen the air go from good, to bad, to better over the decades I've lived here. It's just too bad we have to legislate common sense.

rhw, some of the fringe areas (parts of counties???) have decided to cease the requirement. The commute rule still applies. If you poke around the state's .gov website you'll find all sorts of trivia.

 

Our air was bad in the 60's and early 70's, but since has cleaned up pretty nice, not because of auto testing, but because of industrial clean up, what industry thats left anyway.

 

Where still coming outta the forth ice age as the scientist have proven, so of coarse
the temps will rise,and the ocean rises, its not us, its a natural cycle that the earth
has gone through for millions of years. And by all means i still try my best to not
polute, but scare tactics from the enviormentalist have, well I wont go there, some
other time. They have there foot in the door as far as emissions go, gov wants old
cars off the road so they will keep tightening the emission standard till you break down
and by a new hybred type vehicle.

 

How much research have you done ...to come... to that conclusion.

 

For someone's daily driver, OK.

However, for hobbyists, it is a PITA. Gotta love the enviro-whacks that couldn't stand the thought of allowing someone who puts only a few thousand miles a year to be able to skip emissions testing. I've driven my SVO maybe 3000 miles since buying it 2 years ago, yet I still have to get a smog test to renew my registration. Thus far I've spent probably $300-400 on repairs and testing that do ZERO for making any measurable difference on overall air quality.

So the faster our current mis-guided emissions testing procedures goes the way of the dodo, the better. Put a system back in that lets people enjoy their hobby instead of having to dig through miles of bureaucratic red tape and I'll be all for it.

 

Here they test them annually by running a simulated course while on a dyno, what a pain. A local guy who runs one told me the machines are so inaccurate that it’s more a matter of how the sniffer feels that day than how bad your car is. If they think about how many miles they are running that dyno a year, they are probably adding more pollution then they are ever saving from the cars that get flagged. I think emissions should be tested by design only. Adding the burden to the consumer is just another way of adding state revenue here.

 

Not to get on a soapbox, but...

My '74 highboy with a hi-po 390 I built, the best HC's I ever got was over 300PPM in an idle sniffer test. The stock 360 that was in it was even worse, I never got better than 500PPM's.

My 2001 SD V10 puts out only 25PPM, that's less than 10%. Likewise with CO (Carbon monoxide), which didn't even register anything on the sniffer on the V10.

I know this is a big generalization, but lets say if you only drive 1500 miles a year with a 390 FE, compared to a new car, you could put 18,000 miles on it and put out the same amount of crud.

Or, to put it another way, your car puts out the same amount as TWELVE new cars.

Not that I'm against operating vintage vehicles... far from it !

And as long as they don't require them to pass new standards, and only require them to pass what the limits were when manufactured, what's the harm?