Oldsmobile/Buick: air injection, olds cutlass supreme, 1987 olds cutlass

Question
Hi I hope you can help I have a 1987 olds cutlass supreme I just finished rebuilding it now I have the 442 HO setup 5A heads 4A intake HO cam non roller.Hedmen headers planning to run 2 cats and so on.My problem is I want to do something diffrent can I plug these holes from the head and run filters from the valve covers to my exhaust or can I run both air injection pipe and the filters strait to the exhaust the converters would burn off the gasses.I want to get rid of that ugly looking hose that runs across the top of the intake manifold and just run them to my exhaust can I do this and pass emissions in NY.And would I still need the polution pump and the egr valve.Or maybe you have an ideia you could share with me please help I also neep a vacume diagram I will also install a vacume advanced distributer if that helps any.What can I do as far as the carb if I can do all this I still have the oem carb 4bbl electric

Answer
Keith ,

I can honestly tell you , that you will run into a problem altering your exhaust setup , especially in NY. New York state like many have a check list ,, and one of the key checks is "Visual anti-tampering inspection of a given list of emissions control components as described under 40 CFR Part 51.366 for the State of New York"

Heres what I did , maybe you could relate. I had a 83'Cutlass Supreme that I decided to throw a V6 231 with a modified 650 CFM Edelbrock carb into . After getting everything running straight I realised that there was no nipple for the EGR recurculation valve. Without a doubt my mechanic didn't even have to hook the car up to the emissions station . Automatically seeing no spot on the intake manifold for a EGR he flunked me .

The Vacuum advanced acted horribly on my Cutlass , maybe it was just the way it was setup or the computer but the engine was way out of wack after installing it . I would advise you to use it at your own discrection.

As far as the carb goes ,, that all depends on what you want out of your engine . The market is huge and you have a ton of options . I know I'm giving you a general answer but I do not want to stear you towards one carb . Simply put I've always bolted the wrong carb to my car and payed heavily for it . All I can say is bigger isn't always better.

My point: You might get yourself into a project that will cost time and money and at the end ultimately have to be taken off . So choose wisely !

Keith please post a follow-up on your decision . Always good to hear from a fellot cutlass driver . If you have any more questions , or maybe I didn't answer this one feel free to send me another ding . Don't forget to rate my response to you .

Cheers,

Ed McKenna