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    Veteran Member Three Rings BONFIRE074's Avatar
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    What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

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    With the growing amount of BT guys out there without cats and with CEL, just wondering what you guys do come emissions time for your state? (i know all states are different) Do you put some parts back to stock? Dry gas? what? TIA

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    Veteran Member Four Rings dualaudi's Avatar
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    we put the cat back on.
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    Veteran Member Three Rings BONFIRE074's Avatar
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Quote Originally Posted by dualaudi View Post
    we put the cat back on.
    are you elimi? if so i can see putting the stock cat back on being easy, but what about the guys with diff. manifolds, turbos (3071,2871 etc)
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    Veteran Member Four Rings dualaudi's Avatar
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Quote Originally Posted by BONFIRE074 View Post
    are you elimi? if so i can see putting the stock cat back on being easy, but what about the guys with diff. manifolds, turbos (3071,2871 etc)
    I'm wondering the same thing you are. At least for cali upgrades. (i'm assuming go stock again for a week for smog) or if you have a sm0g hook up. $$
    (sold) 1999.5tqm :: gtrs, atp 3"TP, tweaked mika t3/t4 8k, adj. fpr, forge 004, MBC, neuspeed: catback exhaust, E-bay special FMIC! 9"x28"x2.75" - SOLD

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    Veteran Member Three Rings BONFIRE074's Avatar
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    couple options... Get your tuner (whoever it may be like Uni or CTapp ect..) to write you a file to delete the TP code you get and every other code for shit you removed haha, and hope the inspection station isn't anal. Although you will still most likely fail when they take the readings form your exhaust.

    Or go to a gas station, clear your codes right before you go in, and throw em $50, most places that I have experience with will pass you as long as it is not a visual problem like tint and your CEL is not on and the car is not ridiculously loud..

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Lets just say it's really helpful to have an inspection license.
    Please take the effort to make me feel unworthy!

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Nothing...we dont have that in Florida...dont you just LOVE IT!!!!
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Quote Originally Posted by njm23 View Post
    Or go to a gas station, clear your codes right before you go in, and throw em $50, most places that I have experience with will pass you as long as it is not a visual problem like tint and your CEL is not on and the car is not ridiculously loud..
    you will fail based on the fact that your ecu is not in "ready mode" after you clear those codes. You have to drive your car a certain way and have a lot of turning on/off, and your ecu will be in ready mode) fact.
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    get a buddy with an inspector's license and throw him some cash. i got someone in nyc that does it for 50bucks. Doesn't matter what cel or tint or exhaust you got. they have ways to get around all of it.
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    what i use to do when i had a civic was just go to a gas station and pay em some cash. works all the time.

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Quote Originally Posted by dualaudi View Post
    you will fail based on the fact that your ecu is not in "ready mode" after you clear those codes. You have to drive your car a certain way and have a lot of turning on/off, and your ecu will be in ready mode) fact.

    True. I reset my CEL for a lean condition last year before inspection and they caught it. I ended up going back 3 times before it passed. Had to get about 300 miles on the car without the CEL coming back on before it would pass. Different diagnostic tests are run each time you drive the car and sometimes it goes by key cycles (that's how it was explained to me.)

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    Veteran Member Four Rings GetBoosted84's Avatar
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Quote Originally Posted by ChescoA4 View Post
    True. I reset my CEL for a lean condition last year before inspection and they caught it. I ended up going back 3 times before it passed. Had to get about 300 miles on the car without the CEL coming back on before it would pass. Different diagnostic tests are run each time you drive the car and sometimes it goes by key cycles (that's how it was explained to me.)
    Crap that was my plan. Guess I'll just have to home the defouler works out for me.

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    if you have vag com and know the propper procedure for our cars you can force the car to perform readiness tests
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    it will perform the tests, but it won't pass them if they wouldn't pass normally...

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    gotta love WA too, no inspections just a test. still have the cat in my audi but my truck passes wo/ a cat :)
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    I throw some toutline or zyline (from your local paint/ ACE store) in on a small tank (like 4 gallons/ 1gallon of that crap).

    Its alcohol and doesnt register through their sensors.

    I passed with flying colors on a bad cat that gave me a CEL right after I had the emissions test..

    An option I had tempted myself with was getting a larger Dia cat, gutting it, cut it in half, slide it over your pipe, weld it on... Fake cat! And pass the emissions with the alcohol trick.

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    Find a friend who works at a smog station.

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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    what i did on my TP is put spark arrestors on the back O2 sensor. it keeps it out of the stream and no CEL ( well some times) it codes once every 2 months. there is a DIY on here some were.
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    Re: What Do You Guys Do Come Emissions Time?

    just look for a hook up in a dealership!! ask around.. i have my hook up he just gives me stickers for 50 bucks!!

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