Ohio requires emissions tests of all gas and diesel-powered cars 25 years old and newer. I'm looking to buy an '86 Jetta 1.6 NA and want to install a 1.9 L TD. I'm hoping the TD will run as clean as the NA and the car would pass. Anybody have results of emissions tests from these two engines? Thank you.
What county are you in? Here in Knox county, there is no emission testing at all. It's illegal to remove the catalytic converter, but they dont even do vehicle inspections so nobody will know.
Ohio's emission testing is screwey because every county does it a different way, or not at all. In Maryland, (where I lived for a couple of years) diesels were exempt from emission testing, but still required "inspection". When I got my Camaro inspected there, all they did was plug it into the computer to check fault codes, they didnt actually check the emissions. None of it makes any sense to me. :roll:
Brendan
84 Scirocco 8v
00 Camaro L36 M49
Cuyahoga county tests, though 50 miles south of here they don't. You're right, it's screwy. :roll:
IF all they are testing for is smoke, you can just turn down the fuel screw when you go in for the test, and fill it with biodiesel. My truck won't even smoke under hard acceleration any more (measured at 9% smoke at the e-test). The test requirements for 1986 are probably not too stringent anyway and are probably just smoke tests. Here anything under 6,000 GWVR has to meet the same requirements, independent of year even, so the 1.6NA vs 1.9TD shouldn't matter much.