Correct -- at very worst. If the air ("smog") pump is eating anything even close to 1hp, it's soon to grind itself into a puddle of slag.
74DartCustom, the smog pump is just a little vane air pump. It injects air into the exhaust system so the heat of the catalytic convertor has oxygen to burn the incomplete burned fuel. They aren't very pretty but not much of a power robber.
Only thing wrong with this info is that the car in question is a '74 -- no catalytic converter. The system, called secondary air injection, was introduced almost a decade before the catalytic converter.
