ok so duh, I knew I was going to because of Neptune...not to mention even if they had gotten a signal the car is waaay to modified to ever pass and has no cat.

But I'm getting ready to rebuild the entire engine, and in MD if you show a $300 receipt for parts or $450 from a mechanic for labor/parts, etc, you get a waiver.

I have till October to go again. But the car still would never pass with what I plan on doing. I believe I can get my hands on a somewhat fake receipt saying I spent $300 on a cat, filter, o2 sensor, etc....anyone believe this will be enough? I was told the parts have to actually be on the car, but I doubt many of those guys know what they are looking for or actually check. If worse comes to worse I guess I could always get a busted 3" cat and cut it in half and ghetto rig it around the exhaust so it appears as if I have a cat on it?

 

Do you have a buddy that owns a shop? A guy I know went to his inspection, and intentioanlly caused 3 or 4 CELs to come on before the inspection (Because he obviously was not going to pass). The law in NC is if you spend $250 to attempt to get it to pass inspection, you get a waiver.

So he failed intentionally, took it to a shop, had them write up a receipt for the 4 sensors, and what they "charged" to fix them... It came out to "$350", and he was exempt.

 

hmm thats a reallly good idea. A buddy of mine technically sells parts and can write me receipts for "emissions parts". But he is also the same person I am about to pay $1000 for performance stuff anyway, maybe I can have him fudge some emissions stuff in that receipt haha.

 

Why not just actually run a high-flo cat? it won't cost you a lot of HP. Then when you go to get emissions, just throw the oem ECU back in for the scan tool.

 

In before Jon D...

Oooohhh toooootsie...

 

dude the engines way to modified to run a stock ecu. but thanks haha


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bahaha, hey man this is serious for once!

 

Well, then an honest answer is due...

Take the car off the street. You want to run those setups? For what, track? If that's the case, just take it off the street. No more theft worries and you drive it like it's meant to be driven every time you take it out.

That is all provided you have a DD.

 

yea I have a DD, but the car idles and drives like stock. Great tune, so theres no point in just tracking it. I will just do the receipts route. Shouldn't be too hard to get around emissions

 

Dang you guys have it easy. In GA the Waiver $ is $750 and I have never had my car done where the did NOT do a visual check for a cat.

 

yea they don;t ever do visual checks from what I have seen...

 

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Take the car off the street. You want to run those setups? For what, track? If that's the case, just take it off the street. No more theft worries and you drive it like it's meant to be driven every time you take it out.

That is all provided you have a DD.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thank you. I really don't mind people running these setups, but when they don't fix them and then they cheat and lie to pass, thats what bothers me the most. Make it right and go back or buy another car and track your R.

 

make it right? The car is 100% fine....its been tuned on Neptune, all or most aftermarket tunes cannot be emissions tested. its a matter of them not being able to get a signal. I will still DD my R thank you.

 

how about you buy an LS longblock and swap that in while youre doing your MASSIVE TURBO BUILD. run the LS on a stock LS ecu, put a cat back on it, DONE.

 

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Make it right has nothing to do with the way your car is running. I mean make it right legally to get it through at least since you won't drive it legally daily!

 

man you guys have it hard...... we have to go through inspection but only pass an emission test and visual light inspection...... no scan tool or anything like that

my car passes just fine with no evap canister, etc. on s300 as long as i put a cat back in (i have a spare high flow i use for inspection)

 

i dont know what you have in your car but everytime when i need emission test i install my stock header and the cat to just pass the e test