Oregon DEQ with headers/no cats
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I live in the Portland area and am buying a 1999 Camaro with long tubes and off road pipe from out of state. I know for newer cars deq usually just pulls the codes. Given that i dont have any SES lights on will the car pass even though the cats have been removed?
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the "visual inspection" they do is a VIN inspection -and at DEQ that literally means they do the same work of scanning the bar code at the vin on the door as they do for every other car they see.
just know if you're going through oregon DEQ without at least a punched out cat (something that looks like a cat visually) and you're caught not setting an obd2 light it's a BIG fine and I think they black list your cars vin for a while. at least with a punched out cat you'll never have the potential issue of them looking under the car. not really worth the expensive gamble IMO