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Old Dec 20, 2012 | 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by school boy
its all in the tune, some pass and others will not depending on tuner. you could have your tuner build two tunes for you. 1 for emissions testing and another for performance. load the first tune in for the testing every year and once you pass, load the performance tune in.
first off, find out if there is a visual test you have to pass first. if so, long tubes WILL FAIL. and dont buy shorties, theres only a 0-5 rwhp gain. hell, the long tubes are only 10-15 rwhp gain
yes, but also going for a good sound. I have BBK shorties, bbk catted x and borla atak cat back on my 2010 gt and i love the sound. but i want the sound of the LT's on my 2003 if possible
Old Dec 21, 2012 | 11:52 AM
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i understand, i had jba shorties with full stainless exhaust before my pypes long tubes and loved the sound. good luck with everything man
Old Dec 21, 2012 | 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by school boy
i understand, i had jba shorties with full stainless exhaust before my pypes long tubes and loved the sound. good luck with everything man
appreciate the input and thanks. hopefully someone can chime in on this
Old Dec 21, 2012 | 05:26 PM
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You'll have visual issues on both long tubes and lack of all the stock cats. Technically they should fail you on that alone (who knows if they will or not).

Sniffer will be hard with aggressive cams and high flows.
Old Dec 21, 2012 | 06:10 PM
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With my setup in my Sig I pass emmisions perfectly everytime. I have the hotrod cams though. Just makesure your cats are ceramic and not metallic. I load the street tune a couple weeks before I get it tested also just to be sure. I was told by bama that the race tune shuts off the obd system. Doubt that's true but if so you won't pass with it on.

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Old Dec 21, 2012 | 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by LilRoush
You'll have visual issues on both long tubes and lack of all the stock cats. Technically they should fail you on that alone (who knows if they will or not).

Sniffer will be hard with aggressive cams and high flows.
hmm this is starting to really suck
Old Dec 21, 2012 | 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by johngt10
With my setup in my Sig I pass emmisions perfectly everytime. I have the hotrod cams though. Just makesure your cats are ceramic and not metallic. I load the street tune a couple weeks before I get it tested also just to be sure. I was told by bama that the race tune shuts off the obd system. Doubt that's true but if so you won't pass with it on.
its so iffy, because i would be spending around 1,500 for the setup i want, and if it fails, i would have to either put the stock on (absolutely not...), or get shorties and a different mid pipe which would be another 800-1000. Im not sure really what to do
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