Posted by Victor (24.240.219.47) on December 10, 2001 at 11:06:36:
In Reply to: Severe Headaches when I drive posted by JT on August 23, 2001 at 12:53:59:
The fresh air intake under the outside windshield can get many engine fumes due to a poor hood gasket. And at higher speeds, the high rate of air flow originated at your grille would pick up all the engine fumes penetrate that gasket and be sucked right into your "fresh air" intake. Also heater core problems can give you a light spray of anti-freeze that is a membrane irritant.
A question remains if it is your car or the guy ahead of you.
I see a comment on a motorcycle, while this was my love at one time, could never ride a bike with a windshield, the vacuum created behind the windshield would suck your own exhaust that is likewise an irritant. Membranes would swell up with the usual CH.
The catalytic converter while reducing HC's also produces hydrogen sulfide gas that the EPA does not like to address, their interest lies more in the balance of pollutants, cut a little cancer from HC's but end up with CH's.
We have the advantage of a very powerful signal of the CH that the air we are breathing is detrimental to our health. My peers that put up with extremely heavy traffic in their dailey drive to the city are mostly all dead from heart attacks, strokes, and lung cancer. I had to get the hell out of there due to my constant CH's. My heart is strong and my lungs are clear and I am still kicking, maybe there is one advantage to having CH's.