AdamP

Is it possible to just hook the air pump directly to the thermal reactor just to pass emissions? I want to pull all the solenoids and emissions control garbage off my car. So I would just hook this up to pass air care. I will also be leaning it out and retarding the timing as well as raising the idle to take it through. Thanks

riffraff

yes you can do that, and it will work just fine.

Blitz0309

My dad allways used to just pour a ton of ethonol alcohol in his gas before emmissions... *grin*

Pedestrian X

i just read this somewhere i have no idea if it works or anything but i thought i would share it anyways but apparently it helps alot to pass emissions if you run your tank to almost empty then pour in some everclear stuff that stuff thats like 99.9 percent alchohol or watever then drive your car really hard for ten minutes to heat up the cats or something then go right away to take your emissions test.

peejay

I replied to this already? it did not show up.

Anyway NO. The air from the air pump must first go to the heat exchanger, and then goes up to the thermal reactor. No ways about it. For the thermal reactor to work you need the factory setup, because it's there to keep the thermal reactor ALIVE. Sometimes it retards ignition timing and sometimes it cuts the trailing ignition out, in the interests of keeping the thermal reactor hot enough and fed with enough unburned fuel to stay "lit". Other times it routes air to the external shell to cool the thermal reactor down so that it doesn't overheat and self-destruct.

It's better to learn how the system works, than it is to simply rip everything out because you don't understand it.