before i go and spend my savings on a turbo setup...im just curious about how you all go about passing smog with a turbo in california?...do you all pay someone to pass you? take apart your turbo and put it back to stock everytime you get smogged? what do you do?
thanks in advance.

 

greddy makes a street legal turbo, at least i thought they did

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 97spooncivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">greddy makes a street legal turbo, at least i thought they did</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah, their kit claims to be street legal...but i was talking in reference to the homemade turbo kits

 

your pretty much effed i think, i think your gonna have to just take it out before smogged. thats what im gonna do you only get smogged like what, once every two-4 years isnt it. thats not that much for that long of time

 

Compton smog shops are your friend.

Smog is every two years, so do it right after you smog and then worry about it 2 years after. lol.

 

yea.. just be cool w/ the people over at smog..

where are you located, maybe i coud help you out..

 

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yeah...figured thats what a lot of people do

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Smog is every two years, so do it right after you smog and then worry about it 2 years after. lol. </TD></TR></TABLE>

haha...yeah, but i dont know when im gonna need to get it smogged next

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by andysila &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yea.. just be cool w/ the people over at smog..

where are you located, maybe i coud help you out..</TD></TR></TABLE>

im actually not too far from you...bakersfield...but i havent even started putting together a setup...so it wont be any time soon

 

You have to smog every other year on your registration renewal. If you didn't have to smog on your last renewal, you will this year, and then "it's time".

 

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They claim it to be, but any reputable smog shop will immediately fail you visually just because the car is modified. It happened to me, so I had to get it done illegally.

 

signing up for this... I'm just about to move to socal next week.

I have a built b16 with a 3" pipe going from the turbo out to the back with only a muffler in line. open air catch can, and open dump on the wg also... I hope there's a way to register this thing

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They claim it to be, but any reputable smog shop will immediately fail you visually just because the car is modified. It happened to me, so I had to get it done illegally. </TD></TR></TABLE>

thats bullshit, if it can pass smog test is should be fine, who cares if its modified? with that attitude more people will just go illegally and not even care about the ozone... I will definately change my setup to try and pass smog so I wont add to the LA fog, but if they're gonna tell me no regardless then screw it I'll just drive around with an open down pipe.

I'm hoping to find a non ******** shop that will pass me if I can pass the smog test. anyone know of a shop like this?

 

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thats pretty much ridiculous....i thought it might not pass...but i didnt think it would be for a reason like that.
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by turbosi03 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">signing up for this... I'm just about to move to socal next week.

I have a built b16 with a 3" pipe going from the turbo out to the back with only a muffler in line. open air catch can, and open dump on the wg also... I hope there's a way to register this thing

thats bullshit, if it can pass smog test is should be fine, who cares if its modified? with that attitude more people will just go illegally and not even care about the ozone... I will definately change my setup to try and pass smog so I wont add to the LA fog, but if they're gonna tell me no regardless then screw it I'll just drive around with an open down pipe.

I'm hoping to find a non ******** shop that will pass me if I can pass the smog test. anyone know of a shop like this? </TD></TR></TABLE>
good luck...i doubt you'll pass without a cat though.


its times like these where i wish i worked on pre-emissions vehicles :-/

 

nah I would put a cat and some resonators on, feed the BOV back into the intake, feed the wg back into the exhaust, and do something with the catch can to try and pass smog... but I'm not gonna bother if no one will pass me just because it's been modded.

I might be screwed anyway because of the obd1 conversion

can anyone advise??

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by turbosi03 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nah I would put a cat and some resonators on, feed the BOV back into the intake, feed the wg back into the exhaust, and do something with the catch can to try and pass smog... but I'm not gonna bother if no one will pass me just because it's been modded.

I might be screwed anyway because of the obd1 conversion

can anyone advise??</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah, if you converted from OBD2 to OBD1 you will have to switch back in order to smog it.

What I do is every other year I put all of my stock stuff back on for smog. I put in my stock ecu, stock exhaust manifold, stock injectors, stock exhaust, stock intake. I just leave the intercooler and most of the charge piping there, an if the smog tech asks I tell him it just for looks . It really isn't that much work. A few hours of work every two years is worth it to run a sweet setup.

 

hmm... that doesnt sound too bad once every two years, but I dont think I can run my motor with a stock ecu since it's fully built...

has anyone tried running a stock ecu + stock injectors on a motor that's overbored (84mm), lowered compression (9:1), ported head and different cams?

I'm starting to feel SOL...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by turbosi03 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hmm... that doesnt sound too bad once every two years, but I dont think I can run my motor with a stock ecu since it's fully built...

has anyone tried running a stock ecu + stock injectors on a motor that's overbored (84mm), lowered compression (9:1), ported head and different cams?

I'm starting to feel SOL...</TD></TR></TABLE>

I don't know for sure but....I assume that you would be fine as long as you drove it easy. If there was a problem getting it to idle you could hook up a VAFC or similar fuel controller and hide it so that the smog tech won't see it. But again, I don't know for sure.