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Old 09-09-2013, 11:14 PM   #21
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Learning why they put pennies in there makes cents!
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Old 09-22-2013, 04:32 PM   #22
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Recently I posed the question as to why the gas mileage would be worse, it was explained that blocking off the heatrisers would result in un-burnt gas, with the possible result of washing the cylinder walls. With that in mind I took the car to the local state of Colorado emissions station and had the car checked here are the results:
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