removing emissions crap?

[loreak]

hey anyone have a good site that gives all the info on all the emissions crap you can get rid of, i did a egr blockoff but i would like to ditch it completely and get rid of all the vacuum lines running around, and anything else i can, i didnt see much on vfaq

i know theres like a charcoal canister, and ive seen a pic of a vacuum diagram of our entire engine and what you can remove somewhere

 

[Brett95GST]

http://www.taboospeedshop.com/emissions.htm

 

[loreak]

that is the pic that i had seen, i wanna do that and try and get rid of a bunch of the crap

 

[Dragonsys]

Has anyone in TX or Cali done this? I want to know if the car will still pass emissions with this...

 

[diefwd]

well, seeing as how you are removing all the emissions devices im gonna take a wild guess and say no.

 

[TOTalon]

I dont know if Cali tests are more strict than in Ontario, but Sleek_GSX recently passed a smog test with flying colors and he has no emissions equipment whatsoever.

 

[littlemilla3]

Originally posted by diefwd
well, seeing as how you are removing all the emissions devices im gonna take a wild guess and say no.

 

[TwoLiterV8Eater]

The only things you NEED a vacuum supply for is the fuel pressure regulator, the BOV, the wastegate and your boost controller. Everything else you can cap off and get rid of, assuming you dont care about emissions testing. There has been some controversy on whether or not this actually gives you any benefit at all. I chose to axe my emissions just to unclutter things a bit.

Kinda related but not really, another thing you can get rid of is the coolant line that runs through the thottle body. Unless you live up north, then I would recomend keeping it so your throttle doesnt stick in the winter. Just unhook both hoses and loop the coolant hose from the waterneck back into the heater hose. very simple mod that will decrease intake temperature.

 

[Dragonsys]

is that coolant line on the top of the Thorttlebody?

 

[TwoLiterV8Eater]

Its kind of on the front side. there are 2 coolant lines, unhook both and loop the top hose to the heater line..simple.

 

[doug]

Originally posted by Dragonsys
Has anyone in TX or Cali done this? I want to know if the car will still pass emissions with this...

If TX is like CA and has a visual inspection in addition to the sniffer, you probably won't pass. If you get an inspector that as at all familiar with the engine and sees that the hoses have all been taken out, you're doomed, no matter what the actual emissions are.

 

[TwoLiterV8Eater]

Not to get too far off topic, but isnt that just a bunch of bureaucracy BS?? If your emissions level is below what it should be, I wonder why they actually care if you have ALL the proper emissions equipment to begin with. Obviously it is unneccesary if you are able to pass a sniffer test without it.

 

[doug]

Originally posted by TwoLiterV8Eater
Not to get too far off topic, but isnt that just a bunch of bureaucracy BS??

Yes. It is. Fortunately for me, I only had my DSM about six months before I moved from CA to FL so I didn't have to get it tested-- went from a smog nazi state to one with NO emissions.

 

[TwoLiterV8Eater]

Florida rules! Although I am pretty sure emissions testing is up to each individual county. I think they still check in some counties, or at least they used to.

 

[loreak]

they dont test everywhere in PA, just some larger cities like Pittsburg and i think in Philly, so i dont gotta worry about emissions, i dont have to have a cat or nothin

 

[Dragonsys]

They don't do a visual here, hell most of these guys wouldn't know a diff even if they did do a visual...

I found someone here local to me who removed it all and his car still passes TX emissions...