ok, so i was checking listings on a 98 3.8 monte carlo, looks pretty nice, question is what is the meaning of this (CMI)

"1998 Chevrolet Monte Carlo 2dr Cpe Z34 (CMI) and may not apply to this specific vehicle"

any help would be great, thanks

chris

 

You got me. I searched and found a number with CMI listed.

 

The closest thing I found is CMI Automotive, they manufacture plastics for vehicle interiors

 

was just wondering, that is the actual listing!! so who knows for sure! i bet blacksheep mike will have the answer, he is the monte guru!!

 

CMI

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CMI may refer to:

• 901, as Roman numerals
• Capital Mainstream Indicator
• Case mix index
• Cell-mediated immunity
• Certified Master Inspector
• Chiang Mai Initiative
• China Market Intelligence, a biweekly publication released by the US-China Business Council
• Chronic Mental Illness
• Classic Musical Instruments
• Cluster Method Invocation
• Coded Mark Inversion
• Cold Meat Industry
• Collaboration Management Infrastructure
• Content Management Interface
• Crisis Management Initiative
• Crop Moisture Index
• The Curse of Monkey Island THIS IS MY PICK!!!
  
• Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument

Organizations

• Cambridge-MIT Institute
• Campus Mission International
• Career Management Institute
• Carmelites of Mary Immaculate
• Center for the Management of Information
• Chartered Management Institute
• Chennai Mathematical Institute
• Chr. Michelsen Institute
• Clay Mathematics Institute
• C-Media Electronics, Inc., Taiwanese computer hardware company
• CMI, Inc. a manufacturer of breath alcohol measurement instruments
• Committee for a Marxist International
• A defunct hard disk drive manufacturer, Computer Memories Inc.
• Crazy Magic Inc
• Creation Ministries International
• Cummins, Inc., a manufacturer of diesel engines
• University of Illinois Willard Airport, IATA airport code (and alias for the Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Area)
• Conférence Monarchiste Internationale (International Monarchist Conference)
• Crisis Management Initiative

CMi may refer to:

• Canis Minor (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation

YUP!! This Monte is the Curse of Monkey Island!! LOL!

 

it could stand for 'C'hris 'M'ay not buy this monte because 'I' want it, lol, j/k

 

I'm not 100% sure about this one but here is my educated guess.

Some engines are manufactured with a special vacuum in them that allows them to pass california emissions. It's basically a way to pump air into the exhaust to fake emissions. I actually have this on my Monte (But I don't know if my Monte was sold CMI) It doesn't effect any performance in anyway, it's just something extra that GM uses to fake things. Not all engines have it, so maybe CMI just refers to that?

 

That is a good guess Mike...you might be on to something...maybe in some weird way it just means California Emissions Legal, but why is it not CEL then? IDk, I say thats a good guess though Mike.

I thought all newer cars were sold from the factory 50 state emissions legal...

 

If I remember I'll take a picture of something under my hood that explains that it's hooked up for california...

Though my car was a custom order IDK why it got that... Found out though when I ripped the top-half of the engine haha

 

My car says California Emissions Legal right on that silver sticker by the air box that is attached to the frame...the one that has engine size and all that other good stuff...

Maybe all car do come CA emissions legal no matter where they are sold in the US, ans that is why your custom order car is still set up that way? IDK?

Like I said, I THOUGHT that all cars came ready for CA emission standards. What happens if you move to CA...the first thing you will have to do is smog your car before they let you register it...even if its new, and you bring it here to register it, you will have to smog it.

If you buy the car brand new hear, it does not need smog for the first 5 years, then its every other year after that....