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   Paul in Houston TX to Woozy Song   
   Re: How much carbon monoxide is removed    
   27 Jan 25 14:50:43   
   
   From: Paul@Houston.Texas   
      
   Woozy Song wrote:   
   > I only found one paper where they measured this. It was a 1971 car   
   > versus a 2003 car, and the modern car had 12% the CO of the old car. But   
   > that old car would presumably have been quite primitive (carburetor,   
   > fixed valve timing et cetera) and the newer car would have spewed out   
   > less CO without the cat anyway.   
      
   According to the internet, a typical new cat will remove 90% to 99% of   
   CO.  The Equalizer movie star would have to leave the bad guy in the car   
   for 24 hours instead of 24 minutes to suffer from CO inhalation.   
      
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