Inspection

[dale187]

Getting ready to have to go through inspection and i have to have a cat installed on my car. Of course i dont really want it on there would rather have a test pipe but its gotta go on now. Is it going to degrade my performance that much that i need to take it back off right away. Or can i ride with it on for now until i get the money to do it later. I would do it myself but i dont have the time nor the tools to do it.

 

[pj91gsx]

i would much rather have the test pipe. The people that inspect here don't check under the car.

 

[dale187]

They don't do emmission tests?

 

[tbonitz301]

I have a 3" high flow cat, and the only difference i noticed is the turbo spools about 100rpm later. If you put a cat on it be sure to keep it upstream where the stocker was. Us 2g guys have plastic gastanks, and the inspection guys dont like a hot cat around a plastic tankI already went through it. I thought i could get away from the cat affecting spool by mounting it downstream a little bit. Which it did help, but i had to change it even though i had been driving the car for months with no problemsIt was a pita because i welded it in

 

[pj91gsx]

They don't do emmission tests?

No emission testing here. If you lights work and your horn works and you tires are good. you pass.

 

[tbonitz301]

Damn you guys are lucky. Inspection staions around here are anal as hell. My shifter knob was turned slightly, and they told me to straighten it because it wasnt how the shift pattern was. I'm dead serious too. You should have seen the list of things i had to do. It was like 34 things if i remember correctly.

 

[pj91gsx]

How long do you take at the inspection station? it takes me like 10 minutes.

 

[stefanOst]

Damn you guys are lucky. Inspection staions around here are anal as hell. My shifter knob was turned slightly, and they told me to straighten it because it wasnt how the shift pattern was. I'm dead serious too. You should have seen the list of things i had to do. It was like 34 things if i remember correctly.

That's pretty funny that the jerk would trip over something like a crooked shift knob, guys like that just go on power trips and try to make themselves feel so awesome. Luckily here in quebec we don't have any inspection rules unless your car is over 15 years old, and you are getting a new registration for it, IE new owner. Mine was 14 1/2 when I got it . Not exactly sure what the inspection entails, but I believe it is only for roadworthiness, brakes, suspension, not too much rust etc. Also we have this annoying rule that we can't register imported cars unless they are at least 15 years old. That means no evo VIII's or IX's here

 

[tbonitz301]

Well in maryland you only have to inspect it once, and it's good, but when they did mine. I dropped it off, and they had it for about 6hours. It was ridiculous some of the stuff they failed. I wish i could find that list you guys would get a kick out of it. Oh yeah i remember them saying that my fuel pump was not of oem configuration, and i had a fuel line that needed secured. I was likeWTF. Turns out he thought my water/methanol kit was my fuel tank, and fuel pump. The funniest part is that the wires for the pump werent hooked to anything, and they were in plain view. The tubing was coiled up in the hatch, and hooked to nothing. This guy must have been retarded to think that was my fuel setup. I mean he did start, and drive the car. Yea checkout my 2quart gastank moron

 

[pj91gsx]

Damn you guys are lucky. Inspection staions around here are anal as hell. My shifter knob was turned slightly, and they told me to straighten it because it wasnt how the shift pattern was. I'm dead serious too. You should have seen the list of things i had to do. It was like 34 things if i remember correctly.

I thought my garage inspector was being anal with he failed me because he noticed my muffler wasn't attached to the exhaust pipes. My 900 dollar remus exhaust rusted threw. I bought the car that way though.

 

[tbonitz301]

In colorado and maine all you need is a title , and your on the road

 

[pj91gsx]

What about insurance?

 

[tbonitz301]

Yea...You need insurance. If you didnt all my vehicles would be from maine

 

[kanderson]

Yeah, that's how it is where I am too, just need the title, registration ($25 a year), and insurance. No emissions, no safety check... but for some weird reason I still have the stock cat!!! Didn't really occur to me until now, but since it has never given me any problems I guess it just never crossed my mind. Might be a good weekend project sometime this summer though...

 

[pj91gsx]

No emissions, no safety check... but for some weird reason I still have the stock cat!!!

Is it legal to run just a downpipe there?

 

[kanderson]

Emissions wise, and technically speaking, I am pretty sure that it would be. However, I think that the sound levels would get me into more trouble than I want to think about. I try as hard as I can to go unnoticed, and I'm pretty sure an open downpipe would grab unwanted attention. You know who I'm talking about.

 

[pj91gsx]

I wish I could run smoke stacks my eclipse. That would be so awesome.

 

[dale187]

Lmao. I wish i could just tag my car in maryland. Too bad you have to prove residency.

 

[Novice]

I took my Altima to get inspected here in Texas. Right when I pulled up and said I needed inspection the guy started popping off about my after market exhaust and how I probably don't even have a cat installed. I proceeded to argue with him telling him I had the same set up last year and it passed at this same place. He wasn't even the inspector though. Once the inspector walked over he said "Oh yeah ok pull in" He scanned my VIN and put a new sticker on it without even driving it.

Then Mr. cat said "I guess it's your lucky day" What an asshole. LoL

Here we have visual cat inspection but no emission testing. So a lot of people just gut the cat out.

 

[dale187]

uh... They drive your cars over there?

 

[fatherbubble]

Here's a trick of the trade. If your wanting to get threw the emissions check you can run it without the cat an rear O2 if you know they don't look under the car an if you know how to wire up the fake rear O2 wiring. The other way to go with out insurance emission test an all is simple got to the closest state to you an get a PO box an get your mail for your bills sent there. Or if you know someone living some where else get a bill sent there. then all you got to go do is go to the dmv an get your registration there for your vehicle an there you go. Cops cant write you a ticket if your car is from another state. Since your car isn't registered in your state u live in therefore u don't have to comply to there emission laws. I did that for along time when I couldn't afford insurance here.