Well aint that a bi**h!...(emissions testing)
 

It boggles my mind some times to see how our government can be soooo close minded on certain policies. I went to have my emissins tested yesterday and decided to see how clean i am with my off road h pipe. Well, i passed with flying colors! The guys at the dyno were really surprised at by how clean my car is. But they had to fail me because catalytic converters were not present on my car. As i right after me a piece of crap toyota came in to have the car tested. This thing had a smoke cloud a mile long behind it and was falling apart. It barely passed, and i meen BARELY!

It is strange how my car, that was soooo much cleaner than this piece, was failed because of no cats while this guy got to keep his on the road even though it is putting out more polutants than mine. Go figure. I'll put the cat pipe back on and pass next week. Light Em Up!! http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/smile.gif

What were you numbers with the off-road h-pipe?

California's the same way - you have to pass a visual inspection as well as the butt sniffer.

that BLOWS. with a capital BLOWS. i can't believe they let some POS yoter off while you failed, with a cleaner car. it makes NO sense. if your car is clean, why should it matter whether or not it has cats?

P.S. that's an actual question, so someone please answer it

Move to Florida! They got rid of the worthless emmissions testing two years ago!! http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/biggrin.gif

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That sucks a big one

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Sounds like my car http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/biggrin.gif


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P.S. watch out cobra owners it's a freak

Thats amazing, my car literally spiked every single meter on the machine when I had mine tested w/ the off-road H. The guy freaked out and told me to take it away.

Skyler

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Here were my numbers...

HC- ppm 158(reading) 174(allowable)
CO- % .70 1.12
NO- ppm 1060 1258
RPM 1868 1250-2500
CO+CO@ % 10.9 6.0 min

The page had PASS written all over it, but FAIL in big bold letters on the top. It's kinda funny. But i'm moving to Mass, where emissions are not required if the car is 14 years old or older http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/biggrin.gif 1987 mustang=14 years old http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/biggrin.gif Light Em Up!! http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by NoSlow5.0 (edited 05-24-2001).]

Well, to play devil's advocate, there's your answer. The law is there to ensure that you put out the least possible emissions for your car as possible, not that you come in under a certain number, although a lot of people do. If everyone was set up to just barely pass, they'd probably have to reduce what the passing numbers are to meet the Federal clean air requirements. Since you didn't have cats, which is Federally mandated, they can just claim that your emissions would be lower with them and therefore, you must have them. The moronic thing is that if you just had gutted or phony cats, you would have passed.

With my 351W and Hi-Flow cats I got 19ppm HC and 0.00% CO. They didn't test for NOx here in Minnosota. Maybe someone else could tell you what to expect on NOx.

The numbers you got were comparable to what I got when I was running regular plugs when I should have been running 3/4" reach plugs.

I knew i was going to fail b/c i didn't have cats. I just wanted to see how my car was running. I am very satisfied with how lean it is, and i know that it will be cleaner with cats on. When i brought it back to have it retested, the technition just looked to see if i had the cats in and pushed a button that printed out a PASS sheet.

A tune up will lower the emissions even more, and i will probably weld some heat shields on my pipes to give the impression of cats. I was just surprised that i passed with the off road. Light Em Up!! http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/smile.gif

your car sounds good anyway!!! Hey man this is Lou from the Wilcox party this is a really good site i just joined.

Good deal Lou!!! Now go post a new member thread in the lounge and tell the others a little about yourself and that nice 88 vert of yours!! THE DRAGON HAS SPOKEN!!!Light Em Up!!! http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/smile.gif

my inspection expires at the end of the month so i told my dad i had to switch out the off road h pipe for the stock one and he started complaining about how i was driving around a car that wasnt street legal. i switched the h pipe out and we went for a ride and he was like man this car has no rumble to it anymore so he asked me if i was going to put the bbk h pipe back on after inspection and i told him yeah and he was like good this thing sounds like a kitten http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/biggrin.gif

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1995 gt convertible:
3.55 gears, underdrive pulleys, cobra intake , fenderwell cold air, 65mm throttle body, 75mm mass air meter, off-road h pipe, borla cat back, 155lph fuel pump, yokohama a520(drag radials) 275s, 5 speed conversion with t-5 and all ford racing parts a ram clutch and a dino tuned diablo chip done at strictly performance in houston

My dad acctually prefered the exhaust tone with the stock h-pipe on. He said that the off road was TOO LOUD!! WTF!?? Marbles sounds meen as all getout with the off road on. Light Em Up!!! http://www.mustangworks.com/msgboard/smile.gif