1990 Ford Class A air pump bypass

[nhcouple]

I have a 1990 Newport by Cobra and i will be changing the belts. is there any problem with bypassing the air pump and not running it. i plan to add banks headers and dual exhaust and removing the cat converter. thanks for any help in advance

[RustyJC]

I guess that would depend on if your home state inspects vehicle emission systems.

By the way, welcome to iRV2.

Rusty

[nhcouple]

this is a great site. i have no problems with state inspections because of age, i was just wondering about preformance and causing any problems
thanks

[sknight]

Shouldn't have any issues so long as the belt doesn't run anything else. If it does then you'll have to make sure that there won't be any guiding issues.

As I recall that era had a separate belt for the air pump.