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Those two cylinders wrapped in black plastic had wires going to them. I think they are fuel pumps! Probably got a costly quote on changing the fuel pump out/needing a new fuel tank, and decided to make a new fuel tank with pumps out of a 5 gallon container? Picture is grainy, but I could see it better in person. That was my guess.

Maybe it's like you said, an external auxiliary tank? Not sure either way. So I thought I'd ask the experts here!
An external gas tank is about all I came up with on second glance.
 

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The DOJ published a press release earlier this week that named Rudy’s Performance Parts and its owner Aaron Rudolf for making, selling, and installing emissions defeat devices. Rudy’s pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 10, to pay $2.4 million in criminal fines for conspiring to violate the CAA. This follows a previous sentencing and fine from April in which Rudolf was ordered to pay $600,000 and enter a three-year organizational probation period.

By far the largest monetary penalty comes from a civil suit that the feds filed against Rudy’s and Rudolf. The DOJ did this on behalf of the EPA for the defendants’ hand in getting defeat devices to customers while “failing to adequately respond to the EPA’s formal requests for information.” A $7 million consent decree, filed July 29, was the result.

“For too many years, companies like Rudy’s have installed illegal defeat devices to evade the public health protections of the Clean Air Act, to the detriment of communities across America,” said Assistant Administrator David M. Uhlmann of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “Today’s announcement demonstrates that EPA will vigorously pursue criminal and civil penalties until this blatant illegal behavior comes to an end.”

 

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The DOJ published a press release earlier this week that named Rudy’s Performance Parts and its owner Aaron Rudolf for making, selling, and installing emissions defeat devices. Rudy’s pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 10, to pay $2.4 million in criminal fines for conspiring to violate the CAA. This follows a previous sentencing and fine from April in which Rudolf was ordered to pay $600,000 and enter a three-year organizational probation period.

By far the largest monetary penalty comes from a civil suit that the feds filed against Rudy’s and Rudolf. The DOJ did this on behalf of the EPA for the defendants’ hand in getting defeat devices to customers while “failing to adequately respond to the EPA’s formal requests for information.” A $7 million consent decree, filed July 29, was the result.

“For too many years, companies like Rudy’s have installed illegal defeat devices to evade the public health protections of the Clean Air Act, to the detriment of communities across America,” said Assistant Administrator David M. Uhlmann of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. “Today’s announcement demonstrates that EPA will vigorously pursue criminal and civil penalties until this blatant illegal behavior comes to an end.”
The legalized "mafia" being the complainant. What a joke. Seriously though. After all the harmful crap our government has burned, buried, expelled, etc...., it doesn't have a leg to stand on when criminalizing others, IMO.
 

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Cobb Tuning Products, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the U.S. Department of Justice have announced a settlement to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act stemming from the sale of aftermarket defeat devices for factory emissions systems. According to the September 16 announcement, Cobb Tuning must stop the manufacture and sale of these popular aftermarket products, and must pay a civil penalty of $2,914,000 for its role in the distribution of said parts.

 

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Specifically speaking, how are they defeating factory emissions or is it more along the lines of just increasing emissions?
 

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Specifically speaking, how are they defeating factory emissions or is it more along the lines of just increasing emissions?

The EPA's position is that altering anything associated with factory emissions is illegal. Yet, CARB issues exemptions and companies get kits approved, so really, it's about all the little fish with no money they are going after.
 

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