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Old 10-14-2008, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy View Post
Well if they wanted to sell diesels in CA they had to use them to 87. These days they just tell CA to go F themselves.

In the US they didn't really replace them with anything, not quite sure how they got around that.
Telling CA to go F themselves is essentially ****** themselves as CA is a big market and it's being courted again now that the technology has caught up with their requirements.

Like I was saying, better combustion chambers was the main improvement that MB made early on. The 4-valve design of the OM606 and onward helped as well, then common-rail injection came along and that helped even more.
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