Help with Smog failure

[Schurkey]

"Octane's" are not a physical thing or object.

Octane is real. It may or may not be an ingredient in the gasoline you buy.

Which is why they call it an Octane RATING. The gasoline is compared to a controlled, measured mix of Octane and other chemicals, and would have the same resistance to detonation as that certain percentage of Octane. For example, if the gasoline runs in a test engine with the same resistance to detonation as 87% Octane, the rest "other stuff", = gasoline with an 87 "Octane" rating.

The Germans (?) figured out how to add lead to gasoline to increase the resistence to preignition.

Research done by General Motors in the 1910s, commercially available in gasoline by the early 1920s, but the chemical was known decades before--it just wasn't used in gasoline.

 

[GoToGuy]

Hm. Ok I'm done. Back to books.

 

[wb292]

Head to the auto parts store. Buy a bottle of emission pads in the yellow bottle. Follow the directions to a tee. You should pass easily then.

 

[wb292]

That should have said pass