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Old Jul 19, 2006 | 11:41 AM
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Yea I'm in this boat too. Emissions are due next month. trying to find someone. I have heard I can test my car here in college station; where they do not do emissions, just visual inspection, as long as I have insurance. I'll find out soon enough and if they still stay anything I'll let my wallet talk my way out of it.
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Old Jul 19, 2006 | 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by WhiteKnightZ28
opening the cuttout probibly will not work, at least here in CT if the probe reads a high o2 level (because most of the exhaust is going out the cuttout) it will fail the car.

I would put a pair of cats in, and make sure the car is up to temp when they do the test!

BTW... all those "Guarantee to amke your car pass" addititives are complete garbage, I've never once seen a car pass useing one of them (and I've done over 5,000 cars)
If the cut out isnt an electric one you can just loosen a couple of the bolts on it and that should help out. Like whiteknight saidThoughs gas additives dont help out to much, but i have seen adding seafoam in the in take help out quite a bit. Buy a can of seafoam its like $7 bucks and run half of the bottle to the intake from the brake booster line. also get it nice and hot right before you take it in.
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Old Jul 19, 2006 | 08:16 PM
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it is still the stock t stat. i dont want to spend the money to have 2 more cats put in that will hang too low and that will have to be taken off once emissions is over because they scrape to bad. so right now im looking to make friends lol
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