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
Matt

 

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.

 

^Ouch.. so it's going to be a giant pain in the **** trying to inspect my turbo v8 then...

 

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).

 

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.

 

So if the cel bulb is pulled, there wont technically be any cels? It's got the stock ecu, but a diablo programmer

 

If you pull the bulb it will still show up in the ECU.

If you turn off the lights while you have your eyes open, can you still see?

 

I see what you did there...

I'll have to research this a bit more I think