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Old Jun 12, 2010 | 12:29 PM
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im moving to Virgina this fall the Roanoke area. im putting on a set of long tubes and deleting my egr and air and im running a high flow cat with magna flow cat back. Am i going to have a problem getting the car inspected.

i know in ny i wouldnt be legal but since the car is a 95 and doesnt get hooked to a computer i just have to pass a visual and most times the inspector just slaps a sticker on it.

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It depends on the inspection station wheather or not they look for the air or egr, but if you have cats its more of a chance you will pass and the air and egr will get over looked. If you have no air,egr, and ORY its a sure thing you wont pass.
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Old Jun 12, 2010 | 06:07 PM
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please excuse my ignorance but whats the difference between a regular y pipe and off road y pipe? just the lack of a place for a cat?

worst comes to worse ill just put the stock parts back on every year for inspection i kept them all. then ill just pull them off after.
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the difference between the catted y and ORY is the cats, ory is that just that no cats, just straight pipes
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Old Jun 14, 2010 | 09:31 AM
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im moving to Virgina this fall the Roanoke area. im putting on a set of long tubes and deleting my egr and air and im running a high flow cat with magna flow cat back. Am i going to have a problem getting the car inspected.

i know in ny i wouldnt be legal but since the car is a 95 and doesnt get hooked to a computer i just have to pass a visual and most times the inspector just slaps a sticker on it.
What part of VA. In NOVA they do smog checks, which you probably won't pass without cats.
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Moneta. bedford county
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Old Jun 14, 2010 | 11:17 AM
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I don't think they do Smog tests down there yet. If you have cats, most likely it will be overlooked. All depends on the inspector. If you don't have cats, then you are sol.
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yah i just decided to ditch the long tubes and get mids
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Go for longtubes...just make sure you add some cats. Not very much gain with mids. We have been fine with inpection the past 2 years with longtubes and a catted y pipe on my girl's T/A. We removed EGR and AIR also.

I wouldn't want to run an ORY on an fbody anyway they sound like crap. With cats they are tolerable.
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the problem i have now is i dont how how to hook this damn y pip up to a stock style cat which is what i bought to run on my headers. guy on ebay said oh yah comes out to runs like stock y pipe.


maybe i can find a local shop that can fab up a new y pipe for me.
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