Will a car with LT's pass visual emission inspection in VA?
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I live in Virginia where the emissions inspection includes a visual inspection. If you have LT's with a catted Y-pipe the cats are relocated from their stock location. Will this pass emissions in VA? I was told that in VA any time you relocate the cats from their factory locations they wont pass. Input?
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Originally Posted by Martingale
I was told that in VA any time you relocate the cats from their factory locations they wont pass. Input?
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Originally Posted by Blacker
The inspection place did a visual on my car and it passed. They looked at the exhaust to make sure it had cats.
Also, I am pretty sure you can fail a state inspection if you dont have cats.
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Martingale, you should check out www.easternfbody.com. I asked some similar questions over there and plenty of people chimed in to help me out. There's also 2 f-body meets this sunday; one in Northern VA, and another in Southern VA, if you're interested.
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Originally Posted by Martingale
I live in Virginia where the emissions inspection includes a visual inspection. If you have LT's with a catted Y-pipe the cats are relocated from their stock location. Will this pass emissions in VA? I was told that in VA any time you relocate the cats from their factory locations they wont pass. Input?
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I just got my car inspected/emissions and all they did was the sniffer/dyno test. Never put my car up on a lift or even checked under the car. The guy looked around my engine a bit but that's about all. He and his buddies were more involved in complimenting me on my ride
However, they also said that in the next few months they will be moving to OBDII instead of sniffer, so as long as long as there aren't any codes thrown you will pass. This makes me extremely happy now that I'll be able to run longtubes and get away with it with a good tune and some deleted codes
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Man i made a thread about this 2 seconds before you did, how weird? My post was about Lt's in VA, and passing the sniffer. I'm in Fairfax and wonder the same thing, obviously gotta go catted-y. -Q- how do you like your pacesetters? any problems? dyno them? where did you go dyno in VA/how much?
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Originally Posted by mc01ta
Man i made a thread about this 2 seconds before you did, how weird? My post was about Lt's in VA, and passing the sniffer. I'm in Fairfax and wonder the same thing, obviously gotta go catted-y. -Q- how do you like your pacesetters? any problems? dyno them? where did you go dyno in VA/how much?
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Originally Posted by ArcticZ28
I just got my car inspected/emissions and all they did was the sniffer/dyno test. Never put my car up on a lift or even checked under the car. The guy looked around my engine a bit but that's about all. He and his buddies were more involved in complimenting me on my ride
However, they also said that in the next few months they will be moving to OBDII instead of sniffer, so as long as long as there aren't any codes thrown you will pass. This makes me extremely happy now that I'll be able to run longtubes and get away with it with a good tune and some deleted codes ![Secret2](https://ls1tech.com/forums/images/smilies/LS1Tech/secret.gif)
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And on a side note, do any of you NoVA guys know a good place to go to get the safety inspection? I have window tint and don't want to get dinged for it. Thanks
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I went to a Chevron on Route 1 by the McDonald's on the corner of Cooper Road and route 1. The guy's name was "Downs", or at least that's what his name tag said. Are you familiar with that area?
Also, anyone that is trying to dyno, we are trying to set up a dyno day on the EFA forums. Let me know if u're interested.
Also, anyone that is trying to dyno, we are trying to set up a dyno day on the EFA forums. Let me know if u're interested.
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I just got my state inspection at Rosslyn Tires off of Lee Highway. They are a good place to deal with, got a killer deal on my tires from them a while back. I have dark windows, black trans am, not problema. -Q- I'd love to see those pacesetter etc., we should swap #'s, I know a few cool fbody guys here in Fairfax.
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i'm down for the cam swap to hang out, i've never done one, would be interested in learning/helping out. What cam are you going with? I can't make this sunday either, flying to Texas friday.
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I went with the TR224 seeing as that's the biggest that I'm willing to take my chances on with the way emissions is around here. I'll also be putting in LS6 intake, ported TB, ported LS6 oil pump and a double roller set. However, my credit cards were recently stolen, so I've been waiting on getting that money back for the longest time so that I can buy these other things for the swap
Once I get everything together it should be quite the adventure. I'm using a family friend's garage who basically has most things known to man. He's a cool guy and def knows his ****.
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