My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine?
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My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine?
Smog places in california now require you to smog your car with ROLLERS. They look somewhat like a dyno. The rollers add a load to your car, making your motor run like it had some load on it, giving the smog machine a more real world smog reading.
My question is can I stick that exhaust thing into my downpipe and tune my air fuel ratio on his smog machine?
Or is that tail pipe sniffer not accurate?
My question is can I stick that exhaust thing into my downpipe and tune my air fuel ratio on his smog machine?
Or is that tail pipe sniffer not accurate?
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Re: My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine? (boredracer408)
well how much power u think your gonna put out? I know that most of those smog dyno's only go up to like 200whp. Not sure about there sniffer. But u can help me pass my smog test
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Re: My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine? (boredracer408)
Depending on how much power you're making, the smog dynos only handle 150hp/100mph(not sure about the mph). Also, it's pretty hard to keep the car from going sideways at WOT on those small rollers.
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Re: My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine? (turtle-eg)
if they only handle like 150HP then how can they keep up with like corvette or v8 trucks.. hell both my parnets have over 250HP motors.. F150 Triton V8 5.4L, and a GME Envoy Vortec Inline 6 its pushing 280HP..
They should be able to handle your Honda man
but i dun no, i guess if it has a wideband o2 then yeah if you know how to tune go for it, just for safety, add a couple more chains to hold the car down
They should be able to handle your Honda man
but i dun no, i guess if it has a wideband o2 then yeah if you know how to tune go for it, just for safety, add a couple more chains to hold the car down
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Re: My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine? (JonGP4)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JonGP4 »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if they only handle like 150HP then how can they keep up with like corvette or v8 trucks.. hell both my parnets have over 250HP motors.. F150 Triton V8 5.4L, and a GME Envoy Vortec Inline 6 its pushing 280HP..
They should be able to handle your Honda man
but i dun no, i guess if it has a wideband o2 then yeah if you know how to tune go for it, just for safety, add a couple more chains to hold the car down</TD></TR></TABLE>
I think they're talking about WOT, which is never reached when a vehicle is being inspected.
They should be able to handle your Honda man
but i dun no, i guess if it has a wideband o2 then yeah if you know how to tune go for it, just for safety, add a couple more chains to hold the car down</TD></TR></TABLE>
I think they're talking about WOT, which is never reached when a vehicle is being inspected.
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Re: My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine? (Hoosier Daddy)
You shouldn't run it on teh emissions dyno over 30mph it makes a god aweful wailing sound it is not like a regular dyno, if you go over the RPM range that is recomended it starts flashing bright red saying violation, All you will do is break machine. There was a big problem back when they first came out from what i have been told people running cars on them like they were on a real dyno and breaking them. So you can break a 40k+ machine if you want but i woudn't recomend it.
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Re: My friend owns a smog shop, can I tune on his smog machine? (boredracer408)
We have a machine at my school and I saw the instructor let a couple of Camaro's run WOT on it- not sure how accurate it was though- He pulled 270/wheels, but claimed he hit 320/wheels the week prior
Also, the SMOG test is typically run at controlled speeds- 25mph- very light throttle, so a Vette or Viper wouldn't break it, anyways. And the sniffer is the same 1 alot of shops use to gauge the A/F, as well.
Also, the SMOG test is typically run at controlled speeds- 25mph- very light throttle, so a Vette or Viper wouldn't break it, anyways. And the sniffer is the same 1 alot of shops use to gauge the A/F, as well.
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