eskerley

I bought an ASR rear brace kit which included an ITR rear sway bar and all oem harware, and in order to put the sway bar on my eg i had to get new lca, so i bought a set of skunk2 lca. I was under the car the other day and noticed that the sway bar is hitting the lca and has put a small dent in both of them. Idk what to do to fix this? Any ideas?

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I am going to the ref on tues for the 2nd time with hope of passing. I have heard a lot of people say you should use 100 octane gas, and it will make it easier to pass. Why is this? What is the higher octane going to do for emissions?

Thanks

LastGenEK

I doubt 100 octane would help especially with a stock motor!

the higher the octane level...the higher the temp needs to be to burn the fuel

Meaning you might have unburnt fuel during the smog test

But I might me wrong

Hanmin

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LastGenEK &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I doubt 100 octane would help especially with a stock motor!

the higher the octane level...the higher the temp needs to be to burn the fuel

Meaning you might have unburnt fuel during the smog test

But I might me wrong </TD></TR></TABLE>

the higher the octane level, the higher temp and compression is needed to be to detonate the air/fuel mixture.
Detonation = bad. you want combustion, not detonation.

gizzerhatch

it does help. it makes the cat increase in temperature which in turn the hotter the cat gets the lower your emissions get. i showed you on my first test just by running 10 octane i got my NOX down to 1600+ when i went back without 100 fuel my NOX jumped to 2400+ cause my cat wasnt getting hot enough.

eskerley

What about the sway bar? anyone?

dangthemang

how low is your car? is the sway bar upside down or something? it shouldn't be hitting the lca's

xddrfr3akx

Do you have the si rear sway bar endlink? the itr endlink is different.

ddd4114

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gizzerhatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">it does help. it makes the cat increase in temperature which in turn the hotter the cat gets the lower your emissions get. i showed you on my first test just by running 10 octane i got my NOX down to 1600+ when i went back without 100 fuel my NOX jumped to 2400+ cause my cat wasnt getting hot enough.</TD></TR></TABLE>
1600 is a very high reading as it is. It sounds like the octane of the fuel you're using isn't the (sole) issue.

gizzerhatch

no i got mine to pass. i just got a stock gsr cat and brought my NO down to 258 :D

eskerley

I am not sure if its the si or itr end link. i just installed what was in the kit. No its no upside down.

It could be that my car is too low. i will raise it and see what happens.

As for going to the ref, it had to be postponed because i snapped a brake line going up my driveway the day before the appointment. so i had to order some new lines from wilwood and they sent me lines that were to short so now i have to wait til next week.

I will update when i go to the ref again, early next week.

Thanks for the help!

Dc4iNtEgRa

The lower the octane, the better it burns... I ran 87 in my CRX with B16 for ref, and it burned clean and passed...

eskerley

does anyone have some scientific reason that higher or lower octane is better for emissions. I would think because the lower octane burns at a lower temp it would burn more thoroughly, but i hear mainly to use 100.
any more input?