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What was the missing emission system on a corvette?

What was the missing emission system on a corvette?

Your Mission, if you choose to accept it, is to install that missing emission system on your Corvette. Back in the Sixties to Early Eighties, one of the first things that you did was to remove the horsepower robbing smog system. After you removed it, you threw it away because you would never need it.

Where to get an operating smog system for a corvette?

An operating smog system is very important today. Until now, most smog systems were very expensive and hard to locate but thanks to Zip Corvette Parts, 8067 Fast Lane, Mechanicsville, VA 23111, (800) 962-9632, help is but a phone call away. They have almost all of the parts needed to completely re-install that missing emission system.

Can you remove the CARB from a 1981 Corvette?

I am removing all emission controls from my 1981 corvette it has the electronic q- jet carb and computer controlled distribtor. can i replace the distributor with a msd unit and leave the carb for now? I will eventually replace the intake and carb, but this a hobby car so I have to do it as funds are available.

Is it against the law to remove emissions controls?

Watch out, it is a violation of Federal Law to remove the emissions controls for a street-driven vehicle. Given that, does your distributor have wires going to the distributor body (not the cap)?

Your Mission, if you choose to accept it, is to install that missing emission system on your Corvette. Back in the Sixties to Early Eighties, one of the first things that you did was to remove the horsepower robbing smog system. After you removed it, you threw it away because you would never need it.

An operating smog system is very important today. Until now, most smog systems were very expensive and hard to locate but thanks to Zip Corvette Parts, 8067 Fast Lane, Mechanicsville, VA 23111, (800) 962-9632, help is but a phone call away. They have almost all of the parts needed to completely re-install that missing emission system.

I am removing all emission controls from my 1981 corvette it has the electronic q- jet carb and computer controlled distribtor. can i replace the distributor with a msd unit and leave the carb for now? I will eventually replace the intake and carb, but this a hobby car so I have to do it as funds are available.

Watch out, it is a violation of Federal Law to remove the emissions controls for a street-driven vehicle. Given that, does your distributor have wires going to the distributor body (not the cap)?

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Ruth Doyle