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AND ON THIS DAY THE SHARK WAS BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE!

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Old 10-09-2015, 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Bruno DeSousa
thank you guys.. i was speaking with a fellow mechanic friend of mine who has been helping me with the 928.. i told him the story today about the resistor and he mentioned it was probably placed there in the past because the car wouldnt pass emissions testing. so the resistor would make the signal to the LJet lower which would make the car run leaner and thus helping it pass emissions... keep in mind that someone also installed a new catalytic converter and new O2 sensor back probably when they installed the resistor.. in order to help the car get through the emissions testing... and somehow the resistor broke after that and they must have had forgotten what they did.. or something like that... haha just glad to get the damn thing to run correctly again.. im in the process of detailing it out and look forward to posting pix soon... thanks for reading
Bruno,

Does [did?] your friend work for VW by any chance?

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Fred



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