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Old 09-20-2010, 09:28 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by hackish View Post
Unfortunately I haven't had the time to properly compile the data but from what I've seen it appears that shutting the engine off on my 1993 honda civic VX and then restarting it after only a 20 second coast produced approx 4-6x the pollution as running it for the same 20 seconds.
I would still like to see this data you speak of... even "pre-compiled"
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