CT Emissions
CT Emissions Today I took my car in for emissions. The mods are as follows. Pacesetter lt’s ory, lid, borla, and tuned with hpt. I did not pass but the guy aborted the test so I could fix the stuff. I don’t know if I failed because I just recently uploaded a tune, but he said something about a light being set to not report an error and questioned how it got like that. I just played dumb. He said something about cycling the car, does anyone know what he is talking about? I really don’t want to buy a TSP catted y-pipe but if I have to I guess I will. The air system and egr have not been removed yet, but have been disabled in the tune. Thanks for the help guys.
Not sure what he is saying the problem is. I think that hte issue is probably that you have not driven the car enough to have everythign say ready. There's several people here in Ct that have mods that are similar done, myself included, but I do have cats in my Y pipe. P.M.. me and maybe I can help you out.
hey guys, when i brought the car in the first time, the car apparently wasn't cycled, so i think a couple of the system tests weren't reading complete. But he said something about seeing the cat dtc set to no error reported, does that mean they look for that, or was that because the tests weren't completed that that stood out. heres what hp tuners is telling me. Does that mean i will pass?
Technically if you dont have cats they fail you. They are supposed to check for them.
Besides that it sounds like the problem you are having is a wrong in one of your diag tests settings. With my LS1edit I toggle the "Does SES set error" and I leave that on but I set the error mode to type X. I think you might have TYPE C on one of the settings that causes the whole thing not to run or maybe the "set error" to off (I dont know HP Tuners does it). You have to run through a whole driving cycle to set the status to ready for the codes they scan for. I have EFILIVE that scans all the ODB-II stuff and tells me if they are "READY" or not. My car passed with flying colors and I have Heads/Cam setup with all the boltons.
Besides that it sounds like the problem you are having is a wrong in one of your diag tests settings. With my LS1edit I toggle the "Does SES set error" and I leave that on but I set the error mode to type X. I think you might have TYPE C on one of the settings that causes the whole thing not to run or maybe the "set error" to off (I dont know HP Tuners does it). You have to run through a whole driving cycle to set the status to ready for the codes they scan for. I have EFILIVE that scans all the ODB-II stuff and tells me if they are "READY" or not. My car passed with flying colors and I have Heads/Cam setup with all the boltons.
Last edited by 9T9BlueTA; Oct 25, 2005 at 01:51 PM.
So I took my car back in today, and she passed, or so they said, after they failed me for not having cats. I was so pissed because i talked to one of the guys and said that they didn't look for them, and then what do you know, thats the only thing that failed. Im so pissed right now. Anyway, im gonna grab a set of Hi-Flo cats to weld into my ORY, does anyone have suggestions, and is this going to kill my ground clearance? Not looking to spend a rediculous amount.
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^^^ yes... all the tuning solutions out there allow for this...
Hopefully everything stays as it is now... but from my understanding when they plug into your car.. they download the entire PCM... (so it's easy to do a compare to see that the file's been modified from the GM OS) for now they're not doing anything... hopefully that's how they keep it
Hopefully everything stays as it is now... but from my understanding when they plug into your car.. they download the entire PCM... (so it's easy to do a compare to see that the file's been modified from the GM OS) for now they're not doing anything... hopefully that's how they keep it
Well my OBDII test passed, they failed me for the visual. Hopefully when i take it to a different emissions place they don't do a sniffer test. I dont' think they will.
Originally Posted by tars7
Well my OBDII test passed, they failed me for the visual. Hopefully when i take it to a different emissions place they don't do a sniffer test. I dont' think they will.
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just get a junk yard cat, cut it up and tack it (or clamp it neatly) to the pipe. This is what I did for my CT test. I passed the sniffer (car is 88 IROC) but failed the visual. Its all bull ****-just about the states money IMO! 
CT's test is a obd@ test, and a visual.... HOWEVER, if they scan your computer, and don't like what they see.. they can put your car on the rollers. Ask Chef on here about it and see hwat he has to say... they didn't like what they saw in his computer, so they put his car on teh rollers, and with a relativly good sized cam, and no cats, it failed bad. Here's the catch... once your car goes on the rollers once, they will put it on the rollers every time after that. So, if they ever say your car has a computer problem, and want to put it on teh rollers, tell them to STOP, and DO NOT let it get to the rollers, or you will be doomed for that forever.
P.M. the chef, he can explain probably better then I can.
P.M. the chef, he can explain probably better then I can.