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Published on November 7th, 2012 | by BajaBusta

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1970 EPA & Catalytic Converter Development

To comply with the upcoming tightening U.S. EPA regulations on automobile exhaust emissions, automakers were working diligently on ways to reduce the toxic byproduct produced by the internal combustion engine. In this video we are shown the various ideas the Ford Motor Company had in order to achieve these controls. Eventually, by model year 1975 all gasoline powered automobiles were required to be fitted with the destined choice, the catalytic converter.

 



 

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4 Responses to 1970 EPA & Catalytic Converter Development

  1. infinitrium says:

    Didn’t CVCC Civics meet the EPA requirement without a catalytic converter?

    • Mr. Tactful says:

      That’s what I always heard.

      What is striking about this video is that there’s virtually no mention of making the engines themselves more efficient-they just wanted to treat the exhaust of their existing designs….

  2. JEFF ROBERTSON says:

    I LIKE EPA RATED MPG BACK IN THE 70S,80S AND EARLY 90S ERA FROM 1970-93 AWESOME 😀

  3. George says:

    Mazda used the thermal reactor system on their RX-7’s

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