Friendly Inspection In Travis County
12-27-2009, 12:41 PM
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If by "friendly", you mean someone who will allow an "illegal" car to pass emissions tests, good luck. A friend of mine runs an inspection and oil change business and with the computer tied in directly to the State computers, he can't do anything like that. I would suppose that there is the possibility of someone doing it off the books for some cash, but the penalties if he is caught might prevent that. If the problem is the rear 02 sensors being turned off, you may be better off getting a tune just for emissions testing or converting back to stock for that.
Frank
Frank
12-27-2009, 01:59 PM
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Is your X pipe catted or uncatted? If it's catted, do what duckbubbles suggested and have the tuner turn on the rear O2 sensor. Since I have cats, one of my tuners, Eric Brooks left the O2 sensor on. Now I just have to make sure that Doug left them on.
12-27-2009, 07:38 PM
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The X is catted and its just the mid section. The car should pass the sniff. They changed the law on Tint. 25% is allowed and just my luck I have 20%.... Texas does a sniff and a Safety inspection.
12-27-2009, 09:43 PM
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I am in Austin and Texas does the plug into your OBD port and read any problems the computer has stored. If your rear 02 sensors are cut off, it will give a "not ready" indication and will fail the test. '96 and newer use this type of test. When the computer at the inspection shop is plugged in, it is automatically tied into the state's computer with all your vehicle information. It passes or fails and the state knows about it before you do. I'm not saying that this is right or wrong, just the way it is.
My friend with the inspection station ran my car as a training exercise and I found that it failed with my Tillman's tune- otherwise stock! I would have had to put the stock airbox and tune back in and run it for a while to pass. The FRPP Whipple I have now is 50 state compliant. Put a blower on and it is legal, put a CAI and tune on and it is illegal. Strange.
Frank
My friend with the inspection station ran my car as a training exercise and I found that it failed with my Tillman's tune- otherwise stock! I would have had to put the stock airbox and tune back in and run it for a while to pass. The FRPP Whipple I have now is 50 state compliant. Put a blower on and it is legal, put a CAI and tune on and it is illegal. Strange.
Frank
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12-27-2009, 10:04 PM
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I am in Austin and Texas does the plug into your OBD port and read any problems the computer has stored. If your rear 02 sensors are cut off, it will give a "not ready" indication and will fail the test. '96 and newer use this type of test. When the computer at the inspection shop is plugged in, it is automatically tied into the state's computer with all your vehicle information. It passes or fails and the state knows about it before you do. I'm not saying that this is right or wrong, just the way it is.
My friend with the inspection station ran my car as a training exercise and I found that it failed with my Tillman's tune- otherwise stock! I would have had to put the stock airbox and tune back in and run it for a while to pass. The FRPP Whipple I have now is 50 state compliant. Put a blower on and it is legal, put a CAI and tune on and it is illegal. Strange.
Frank
My friend with the inspection station ran my car as a training exercise and I found that it failed with my Tillman's tune- otherwise stock! I would have had to put the stock airbox and tune back in and run it for a while to pass. The FRPP Whipple I have now is 50 state compliant. Put a blower on and it is legal, put a CAI and tune on and it is illegal. Strange.
Frank
12-28-2009, 03:46 PM
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All you need is cats (high flow or stock) and an emissions tune. You can pass with all sorts of mods, LT headers, cams, ported heads, stroker, etc as long as your tune is setup for emissions. 
Brenspeed, Bama, Tillman, etc can all make emissions tunes. The only thing that stops an emissions tune is an O/R mid pipe.
Brenspeed, Bama, Tillman, etc can all make emissions tunes. The only thing that stops an emissions tune is an O/R mid pipe.
