Hello Rotary People,

Searched the forums, found some info, but didn't really apply.

I own a 86, swaped the S5 TII in with haltech, and other mods, etc.

Well, it's that time of the year for smog and registration, before even going to a smog shop (my notice required a Test Only station too), I already know passing would be impossible due to the mods.

I thought I had it "taken care of ", but the deal went through, the government is cracking down on these people.

Well, so what should I do? no more money to pu the emission parts back on the car nor buy another car.

....should have thought of this before I jumped in and clean out the bank account...life lesson learned I guess.

I really don't want to part out the car, that would be the last option, but what good is the car if you can't drive it legaly on the street?

well, any ideas, suggestions people?


Thanks

 

What are the mods you have besides turbo? Do you have a cat? did you tune your fuel curve? If you really want to make Smog (I'm not sure since I live on the east) but couldn't you run a little rich and that should knock down some of the chemicals (not too sure though)... Check the faq, they have a nice table that tells you what you'd need to do to pass certain portions of the emissions test, IE: fuel curve, etc. Don't forget to change your air filter, fuel filter, oil, and spark plugs. just changing those few things also change the chemicals that come out your engine.

 

I think it's in the FAQ. Maybe the FD FAQ. It involves lots of alcohol and other unscrupulous methods, or bribes. Personally I'd make & keep it smog legal to prevent current/future hassles. I think for you that means a cat, and seperate "smog test" settings on your haltech.

Hopefully someone else will give you more detail, or you can search more. It is somewhere. It might even have its own forum section (I might have seen it). Go to the main list of forum sections and look carefully.

Ideally the fuel/air mixture should be neither lean nor rich, but perfectly balanced. This will make a rotary knock, so the air pump adds air to the cat to balance off the rich mixture coming from the engine. You could consider re-installing your air pump and O2 sensor. Too much fuel increases HC and CO, but decreases NOx. Too much air increases NOx but decreases HC and CO.

 

I'm so happy Minnesota doens't check emissions. I run an open exhaust on MY FC and will be once I install my mid-pipe on my FD.

 

ur car looks fab

 

well..put on an exhaust with a cat, and get a huge air pump to blow clena air into the cat, hide the pump somewhere tricky...(im sure its illegal...so at you rown risk

 

Thanks for the suggestions, well, the turbo is actually stock. Fuel curve could be tuned, I need to ask my tuner. Well the sniffer test I'm sure I could some how get it to pass, but the visiual inspection is a definet no no.

 

Thanks for the suggestion also, I'm gonna go check out the FD FAQ section.

 

lol, thanks man, need bigger wheels though. Well, looks nice but can't drive it, what's the point?

 

Glad i don't have emissions checks to worry about over here in aus, problem we get is noise pollution the cops love getting nice cars for that the limit is like 88db or something which alot of stock cars don't pass its ridiculous

 

wow any more pics of your car. Looks really nice.

 

thanks, here is another one:

 

wow, that's a clean looking 7

 

Not going to work unless you find a shop that will hook you up, In CA if you dont pass the visual you fail, Im pretty sure just the fact that it has a T2 motor in it, let alone is stripped of all emmisions parts, will get you a fail and a "tampered with emmisions equipment" label. Do you have any friends or family in a non biannual smog area of california? If so you might want to "move" in with them for a month or so every year.