"CardsFan" > wrote in message
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>
> "Billy Ryman" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Emmision controls have been around starting from 1968, Catalyst
>> requirements 1974-75, so 1984 isn't exactly the beginning.
>>
>> Bypassing emmision controls? Might as well tear out the ECM, and all the
>> wiring that goes with it. You can't cherry-pick with the ECM. You did
>> plan on rewiring the car, didn't you? Your digital dash?... I guess
>> you'll replace everything with analog gages, 'cause non of the
>> electronics will work.
>>
>> Classifying it as a street rod maybe false thinking. IIRC that car must
>> meet the emmission standards in effect at time of manufacture. Federal
>> Law prohibits removing any type of emmision control device when it is
>> operated on any public roadway, in any juristiction of the U.S. that
>> receives Federal Highway Funds.
>>
>> 700R4: Electronic controls? yes and no. A little jewel call a VSS, wired
>> to the cluster/ECM. You'll have to reverse engineer this system.
>>
>> And you better consider what you're going to do with the fuel
>> pump/delivery system. That carb you spec'd WILL NOT handle the pressure
>> from that electronic pump!
>>
>> Your $500 quote is laughable!
>
> My thought is it is probably missing quite a few pieces that will
> eventually become necessary.
>
>> You'll spend that just to get the wares from JEGS. Then you'll spend at
>> least another $2K in misc. parts and labor to get it to run.
>
> The guy has had his heart set on this refit since he showed up. NO ONE,
> including someone who has already done the exact conversion and strongly
> advises against it, can talk this guy out of what is going to be a
> time-consuming, expensive mistake.
>
> Again, this person places no value whatsoever on his own time, he has a
> huge misunderstanding of the complexity of this conversion, or he saved
> some poor mechanic's life at some point and is getting the payback. Let
> him go, but anyone who abets the effort shares the blame.
>
> AJM
> '93 Ruby coupe, 6 sp (both tops)
>

Amen.