I am helping an elderly lady friend sell her 66 2+2 GT on eBay and have been asked if the smog equipment is intact. What smog equipment was on a 66? The car spent most of its life in San Diego, so wouldn't it have to have been on the car to pass inspection there?
Smog equipment on a 66?
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dennis112
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A 66' V8 built for California would have an air injection system. Basically an air pump, a vacuum control valve, and the heads would have air injection tubes attached to each cylinder. There is an anti-backflow valve attached to the top of the air injection tubing.
S-Car-Go
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There was also a "stove pipe" connecting hot air off the exhaust mainfold to the air cleaner when cold.
I don't know what was required in WA.
I don't know what was required in WA.
In 1966, nothing was required here.
It has the hot air tube to the air cleaner in place.
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CA emissions systems weren't put in place in the other 49 states until the Feds required them in 1968. For Washington, all you would have is a PCV connecting the rear of the passenger side valve cover with the spacer under the carburetor. You also got the heat riser going into the air cleaner (non-hipo or dress-up style), but, like the choke, this was more for driveability than anything.
jspagna1
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That definitley looks like it was an add on by someone. Look at the welds. Here is what a stock 66 engine comaprtment should look like.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag.../&p=1966+mustang+engine&type=jpeg&no=2&tt=352
http://images.search.yahoo.com/imag.../&p=1966+mustang+engine&type=jpeg&no=2&tt=352
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