WonderBart » AirCare http://www.wonderbart.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:21:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Passed Aircare today with flying colors! http://www.wonderbart.com/2008/03/passed-aircare-today-with-flying-colors/ http://www.wonderbart.com/2008/03/passed-aircare-today-with-flying-colors/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:23:21 +0000 Bart Piotrowski http://wonderbart.com/?p=11 I passed aircare this morning with really good results and it didn’t take to much work. Yesterday I used up the last of the gas that I had in the tank and filled up with Mohawk 94 octane with 10% methanol, added some fuel injector cleaner and took it for a good boot at lunchtime. Then this morning I retarded the timing 8 degrees and put about 200ml of Menthyl Hydrate into the tank and drove it to aircare just before going to work but I made sure I drove it with high rpm’s to keep the catalyic converter really hot which would keep the emissions low.

Wednesdays Reading Todays Reading

HC 0.5221                 0.3468

CO 6.7286                 4.1013

NOx 0.4531               0.1945

As you can see from the results it did a lot better in all 3 categories and one big thing I noticed is that with the super blend of gas I gained some horsepower with less emissions. The methyl hydrate is suppose to run your engine hotter and leaner and has a tendency to dry out rubber seals so do not use it to often.

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          Max Allowable                  My Reading               Average Reading              Result

HC          0.5000                         0.5221                        0.2072                       Fail

CO          9.3200                         6.7286                        5.2242                       Pass

NOx        1.2400                         0.4531                        0.6225                       Pass

I am gonna try running some Mohawk Gas with Ethanel, retard the timing a bit and dump some Menthyl Hydrate in the tank to see if that helps it out since I know I already did the basic tuneup when I did the engine swap.

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