Passed smog...with a Haltech and a J-spec
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Passed smog...with a Haltech and a J-spec
Like the title says, I managed to pass CA smog 100% legitimately today with a Haltech E6K controlling an S5 J-spec motor. I didn't even have to pay the guy to pass visual 
No alcohol, no nothing... sweet
I pretested the car before hand to see what it was putting out, and the HC's were a bit high so i went out and leaned it out at 1700 rpm (to 14.7:1... it was a bit rich before) and backed the timing off five degrees (back down to mazda specs), and the car passed with relative ease
I'll post the results later if anybody's interested. Man is that a relief
It was pretty funny, too, because I was worried that the car would overheat, so I flipped open the laptop and checked the temps while it was on the dyno and the guy was like "What's that" me: "Oh, it gets a data stream from the computer and displays it, cool, huh?" him: "Neat... that thing registers faster than my machine!"
On top of that I had the wideband display going the whole time, and the guy didn't care. At one point he asked me if i could program the engine with the Haltech (and he sounded kinda pissed), but I told him "Well, i'm not sure. I don't think so, but in any case I haven't touched it 'cause i'm scared to mess something up"
Anyway, i'm pretty happy about that. I just welded in a new "car-sound" 3" high-flow cat yesterday and installed new spark plugs this morning, but other than that I didn't do anything special.
Now, for that big turbo
Manolis
No alcohol, no nothing... sweet I pretested the car before hand to see what it was putting out, and the HC's were a bit high so i went out and leaned it out at 1700 rpm (to 14.7:1... it was a bit rich before) and backed the timing off five degrees (back down to mazda specs), and the car passed with relative ease
I'll post the results later if anybody's interested. Man is that a relief It was pretty funny, too, because I was worried that the car would overheat, so I flipped open the laptop and checked the temps while it was on the dyno and the guy was like "What's that" me: "Oh, it gets a data stream from the computer and displays it, cool, huh?" him: "Neat... that thing registers faster than my machine!"
On top of that I had the wideband display going the whole time, and the guy didn't care
. At one point he asked me if i could program the engine with the Haltech (and he sounded kinda pissed), but I told him "Well, i'm not sure. I don't think so, but in any case I haven't touched it 'cause i'm scared to mess something up" Anyway, i'm pretty happy about that. I just welded in a new "car-sound" 3" high-flow cat yesterday and installed new spark plugs this morning, but other than that I didn't do anything special.
Now, for that big turbo
Manolis
