help!! passing inspection with turbo-built cars??
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help!! passing inspection with turbo-built cars??
You'll have to forgive me, as I took my pills a bit ago and I'm barely conscience and with it right now, and my head is spinning several hundred miles an hour.
So. What kind of issues are there to adding a turbo to a car and passing inspection? I'm not talking only hondas, as this isn't a honda I'm doing it too..
Wont emmisions be idffernt? Wont the computer not read CELS due to having a different compter? Or wont teh CELS be tirggerd?
What generally has to be done to get your aftermarket-turboed, high, HIGH horespowr cars to not have proles with inspection?
Thanks and good night
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So. What kind of issues are there to adding a turbo to a car and passing inspection? I'm not talking only hondas, as this isn't a honda I'm doing it too..
Wont emmisions be idffernt? Wont the computer not read CELS due to having a different compter? Or wont teh CELS be tirggerd?
What generally has to be done to get your aftermarket-turboed, high, HIGH horespowr cars to not have proles with inspection?
Thanks and good night
Matt
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Re: help!! passing inspection with turbo-built cars??
First of all, if your car is a 96+ model then you can pretty much forget about changing the computer. For OBD2 cars they dont care how clean they run, they just care that the car isn't throwing a check engine light. They'll plug their diagnostic computer into your computer and make sure everything is fine. If your car is 95 or older, then it's easier. Just have a really lean tune and run a catalytic converter, and they'll just run it on the rollers with a sensor up the tailpipe, like they used to.
i lucked out though, i moved to a county where they dont have emmissions when i went away to school.
Before that I used to have to put on my stock injectors, stock header, stock computer, and stock sensors and then drive it 75 or so miles to prove it wasnt showing a check engine light.
Good luck.
i lucked out though, i moved to a county where they dont have emmissions when i went away to school.
Before that I used to have to put on my stock injectors, stock header, stock computer, and stock sensors and then drive it 75 or so miles to prove it wasnt showing a check engine light.
Good luck.
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Re: help!! passing inspection with turbo-built cars??
^Ouch.. so it's going to be a giant pain in the **** trying to inspect my turbo v8 then...
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it depends on the vehicle mostly. if it uses a non-oem ecu for tuning, then there's no way it would pass an obd2 plug in (that i know of).
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I kept the stock ECU in my Volvo (1998) for some dash functionality and wired in a standalone EMS. I have no CEL and no codes.
EDIT: I forgot that I pulled the CEL bulb, but there are no codes showing.
EDIT: I forgot that I pulled the CEL bulb, but there are no codes showing.
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Re: help!! passing inspection with turbo-built cars??
So if the cel bulb is pulled, there wont technically be any cels? It's got the stock ecu, but a diablo programmer
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Re: help!! passing inspection with turbo-built cars??
I see what you did there...
I'll have to research this a bit more I think
I'll have to research this a bit more I think
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