Injen1us
Drag Race Newbie
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Cailfornia Smog: Know Your Rights & Options
- Thread starter JT641
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Great advice!
LargeMargeSentMe
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@SELA_MK6GTI catted (a must in CA!)
SELA_MK6GTI
Go Kart Champion
I just went stage 2 with a catless dp. Would I just need to switch my dp to stock one when the time comes?
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LargeMargeSentMe
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@SELA_MK6GTI
yes you will have to swap it to stock.
the good... you will be able to set readiness easier and have more confidence in the visual test. the bad... that install sucks, I just don't want to go through that (or pay someone) to go through that every 2 years.
yes you will have to swap it to stock.
the good... you will be able to set readiness easier and have more confidence in the visual test. the bad... that install sucks, I just don't want to go through that (or pay someone) to go through that every 2 years.
SELA_MK6GTI
Go Kart Champion
JT641
Banned
You passed with all of that on your car??
If he has spacers on there he got lucky and they didn't do a visual. Others have not been so lucky. At the worst he would just had to have put on his stock downpipe to comply with visual. Readiness can be achieved when the 02 sensors are operating properly and you have driven a couple hundred miles of mixed driving OR you can run the readiness routine with your Ross-Tech cable. You cannot "force" readiness. Nice thing about using the cable is that it only takes 20 min and simulates the driving you normally have to do.
At least for now they are not doing sniffer tests on cars built after 2002 so it really doesn't matter what tune you run. Just need to pass visual and the emissions system needs to be working and show readiness when they go to read it from ODBII
JT641
Banned
They couldn't tell you're running a tune
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Curious, if I'm unable to to find a CCTA downpipes to modify with a 3rd O2 bung... can I re weld a whole new elbow on the CBFA downpipe with a 3rd O2 bung? If the tech sees new welds just in front of the oe catalytic converter for a new elbow to the turbo... will that cause me to fail the visual? Since they are just looking to see that the OE cat is still in place?
Right now I have a B&B downpipe with a spacer for the O2 sensor so I can pass readiness... however I just used my FJ Cruiser to profile a local smog shop and they did look underneath to make sure the oe cat was in place. They even ran every carb number for the parts I had under the hood. The techs seemed young, Asian, the type you'd expect to drive stanced car however they where just too thorough in the 5 minutes that it took.
After some small talk because he liked the visual mods on my truck I asked if they'd be able to pass my VW if it passes readiness and overlook the hi flow downpipe. He said no
Right now I have a B&B downpipe with a spacer for the O2 sensor so I can pass readiness... however I just used my FJ Cruiser to profile a local smog shop and they did look underneath to make sure the oe cat was in place. They even ran every carb number for the parts I had under the hood. The techs seemed young, Asian, the type you'd expect to drive stanced car however they where just too thorough in the 5 minutes that it took.
After some small talk because he liked the visual mods on my truck I asked if they'd be able to pass my VW if it passes readiness and overlook the hi flow downpipe. He said no
No they don't check for that.
JT641
Banned
How do you run readiness routine with Ross Tech Cable
thewalkingdad
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Sounds like it might be easier to register it in NV or some other state.
LargeMargeSentMe
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folks, don't register your car in another state, if you get pulled over with an out of state plate and a CA license / address your going straight to the smog rep.
California has a snitch bitch program for people to report out of state cars to the CHP/DMV.
https://www.chp.ca.gov/notify-chp/cheaters-out-of-state-(out-of-state-registration-violators)