I had no intention of doing so. However, my position has always been to retain any pollution control devices where-ever possiable. If Everyone that lived in non-inspection states ditched their cats can you imagine how bad it could get in some places? Uck.
I live in a state where I could easily get away with loosing my cats- not even a visual inspection here- but they're still there.
I will admit to toying with the idea of ditching my PAIR valve set up though...
I have no plans on ditching my cats (in fact, I'm planning on retaining them when I have my exhaust redone, despite the added cost that keeping them will cause). That being said, if they plugged up or somehow else otherwise became inoperative, I would not plan on replacing them. Factory costs are $$$, and aftermarkets are still pretty spendy.
I've talked with several people who have removed their cats (or hollowed them out) and still passed the sniffer. It's likely that the 80's would pass the sniffer as well, meaning they're well within the required limits. (Assuming decent maintenance.)
I'm all for taking care of the environment and being smart about things. I personally believe that global warming is extremely questionable at best. There are some very strong scientific papers out there showing evidence for global cooling. (Michael Crichton has an excellent book examining this,
State of Fear.)
In certain circumstances ditching smog equipment makes sense (and I think that our government is far too restrictive on it).
Just my two peso's, and apologies for hijacking the thread. You can now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
(Oh, and while I don't have to worry about PAIR, from what I've read removing it makes a lot of sense. If I had an 80 with PAIR on it, I would probably remove it at some point myself.)
I'll bet he runs his A/C with the windows down, too.
