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Re:US Sues eBay for Allowing Sale of More Than 300k Emission... by dieselgate on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @03:27PM (#37836356)
Often times it's the removal of a complicated system that is failure prone - less filters to get clogged and stuff like that.

Edit: people generally don't do things for the "sole purpose of polluting more" it's often functional. Many diesel drivers don't like others who roll coal as the image is bad in general - heavy equipment will often produce black smoke because the engine is being worked for a "function" and it's literally just being given fuel.

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Re:US Sues eBay for Allowing Sale of More Than 300k Emission... by bsagdiyev on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:51AM (#37842925)
This is correct. One of my two modified cars came from CA at some point and had emissions equipment that was standard there but not on 48 state cars. Removal of it didn't impact emissions and the car actually runs cleaner modified than it did when bone stock. But you see a lot of people here who just assume modified == killing baby penguins with emissions or something. Trust me even the car guys don't like the straight piped VQ revving at the car meets.
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