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Re: Why does a dirty air filter cause elevated CO emissions?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 12/2/2018

G'day Rob, good question. The CO reduction section of the cat requires O2 to work efficiently that is probably why lambda is lean and the CO is high.

It would be interesting to measure the CO pre cat with the restricted filter reinstalled.

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