There have been many horror stories associated with emissions dyno testing. A favorite was trying to dyno a 4 wheel drive, it took off because the front wheels were still engaged. There are many dangers from inexperienced people doing the testing to improper procedures to defective equipment. The destruction of the transmission is the least of your worries. If the trans fails it is probably because it was slipping to begin with and testing at full load for an extended period wipped out the clutch plates. On level ground at light loads the trouble may not have been noticable but was there already waiting to get worse. The Delorean transmission is no more prone to damage then any other automatic assuming that it is in good condition. In New Jersey they have suspended the dyno testing temporaraly, our Govenor is becomming the head of the EPA so I guess they didn't want too much bad publicity. I had my Delorean in the dyno test last year and I wasn't too thrilled about it (and they wouldn't let me watch) but I was told "Either let us test it or we will fail you right now!". It passed but the interesting part was watching them try to test the GAS CAP. The tester could't seem to find the right adapter so several of them came over to help. They eventualy got it to pass by only putting it halfway on, then the green light on the tester lit! Another little thing they do in Jersey, with the driver's door open the tester gets it up to about 20mph and hits the brakes on the brake indicator to test the brakes! I really don't like that but again if you won't let them do what they want they just fail you. I have to look into collecter plates. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, nbrommer@xxxx wrote: > The prior owner of my car (in california) claimed that the emissions test destroyed his transmission. Subsequently, the transmission was replaced so my car has a new transmission. However, I'm wondering if there was any truth to his statement. I live in Washington State, where I will soon be putting the car through an emission test. Any thoughts? > > > > Nick > > 3092