Those who have smog/emissions

July 27th, 2008, 03:34 AM	#1
NavySeabee87 Enthusiast 2004 Mustang Gt Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oxnard Ca.-back from deployment! Posts: 824	Those who have smog/emissions Ok so ive asked around and looked for a thread, but nothing to help me. So im askin you all, originally im from IL, now living in cali, cars registered in IL, so i have to do my emissions, so i go to the shops in cali and i get it done. So what i want to know, is in california or any other state that has emissions, is there any possible way i can get headers, that arent shorties, and still pass emissions. For instance, l/t headers, with hi flow cats to my x pipe. Will that pass and for visual as well? I want to finish my exhaust up, but if i cant pass, then theres no sense in putting any headers on correct? Help me, im soooo confused, damn emissions __________________ Flowmaster Catback, Bassani O/R X, Steeda RAI, Lightbar, Bullet Wheels, Plenum/T body, Adj. Shocks/struts, Springs, MM CC Plates Grill delete, MILITARY CREW E4

July 27th, 2008, 03:44 AM	#2
6DXR Hardcore Enthusiast 2007 Mustang 4.0 65.3@37..Shootin For The 9's Next Time Join Date: May 2008 Location: In Bed With Safi's Sister.. Posts: 1,042	Take them off when you go to get tested. Then put them back on after. __________________ 2007 V6. RED. BONE STOCK. 5 SPEED FR500's Wrapped In Sumitomo 285 and 265's Rear Blackout Panel...Oh and a fancy Hurst Shift Knob Red Mustang Society

July 27th, 2008, 03:50 AM	#3
NavySeabee87 Enthusiast 2004 Mustang Gt Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oxnard Ca.-back from deployment! Posts: 824	yea i had to do that with my x pipe, but i dont want to have to keep takin it off and puttin it back on, it would take alot just to take it off, ive never put any headers on but ive heard they were a bitch __________________ Flowmaster Catback, Bassani O/R X, Steeda RAI, Lightbar, Bullet Wheels, Plenum/T body, Adj. Shocks/struts, Springs, MM CC Plates Grill delete, MILITARY CREW E4

July 27th, 2008, 03:07 PM	#4
bwoody1713 Regular 2000 Mustang GT Still too slow Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Campbell Hall,NY Posts: 352	Speaking from experience, they are. I believe if you get the vehicle tuned it can resolve most of your issues. My LTs don't throw a CEL for the rear o2s, just for the heaters for the front and I believe a tune can fix that (don't quote me) my advice would be see if anyone is running LTs that doesn't have any problems with it and what they did. You being in CA means that they're strict and I don't know what the ruling is for vehicles that have one or more systems come up as not ready.

July 27th, 2008, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by NavySeabee87

yea i had to do that with my x pipe, but i dont want to have to keep takin it off and puttin it back on, it would take alot just to take it off, ive never put any headers on but ive heard they were a bitch

It's not like you get tested every day. It's like once every three years.

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July 27th, 2008, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by 6DXR

It's not like you get tested every day. It's like once every three years.

It's once every 2 years for vehicles made after 1975, unless the vehicle is registered in a smog-on-transfer-of-title-only county, in which case it must be smogged within 90 days of the title transfer (before or after doesn't matter, the title transfer and smog must be within 90 days of each other). From what I understand, there's a recent change that exempts new vehicles for their first 5 or 6 years.

And it doesn't matter whether or not it'll pass the sniffer, in California failing the visual is just as bad (if not worse, honestly), and to the best of my knowledge there are no long tube headers with a CARB exemption. I don't beleive that you can get a CARB exemption for long tubes because they move the location of the O2 sensor.

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July 27th, 2008, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by 6DXR

It's not like you get tested every day. It's like once every three years.

ha, not even. i got my car tested before deployment. when i get back it will be oct-nov. and i have to get it next october, so the 2 years...not really for me. these deployments take away alot of my time tho

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July 29th, 2008, 06:58 AM	#8
NavySeabee87 Enthusiast 2004 Mustang Gt Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oxnard Ca.-back from deployment! Posts: 824	woo! i found some headers that arent shorties and are legal in cali, with the carb sticker check it out, let me know if they will fit a bassani x pipe anyone? JBA Headers __________________ Flowmaster Catback, Bassani O/R X, Steeda RAI, Lightbar, Bullet Wheels, Plenum/T body, Adj. Shocks/struts, Springs, MM CC Plates Grill delete, MILITARY CREW E4

July 29th, 2008, 12:44 PM	#9
bwoody1713 Regular 2000 Mustang GT Still too slow Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Campbell Hall,NY Posts: 352	JBA is the only street legal header available in the aftermarket and it is high quality stuff, kind of expensive though..As for the X Pipe, I'm not sure that Bassanis are street legal, I know Magnaflow is and they also make one where you just cut out the H in your old h pipe and clamp in an X which is also street legal since the cats don't move.

July 29th, 2008, 01:25 PM	#10
NavySeabee87 Enthusiast 2004 Mustang Gt Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oxnard Ca.-back from deployment! Posts: 824	the bassanis i found arent street legal, they are only meant for track use, but i might end up gettin the jba and end up getting it custom fitted to my bassani x, and then throwing sum cats on it, not sure tho yet __________________ Flowmaster Catback, Bassani O/R X, Steeda RAI, Lightbar, Bullet Wheels, Plenum/T body, Adj. Shocks/struts, Springs, MM CC Plates Grill delete, MILITARY CREW E4

August 19th, 2008, 01:23 PM	#11
97mustanggt Regular 1997 GT(VERT) & COBRA TBA Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Richgrove, Ca Posts: 397	smog is once every two years...so its all up to u if you wana be removing and installing back on....

August 19th, 2008, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 97mustanggt

smog is once every two years...so its all up to u if you wana be removing and installing back on....

well the way things are for me, its about a year, im on deployment or training for a good part of those 2 years

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August 21st, 2008, 10:29 AM	#13
97mustanggt Regular 1997 GT(VERT) & COBRA TBA Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Richgrove, Ca Posts: 397	^dam well that sucks...well its all gonna depend if you are gonna want that sweet sound...and if you have time to just be installing the originnal one back on....im sure oull make the rite choice...

August 27th, 2008, 03:09 PM	#14
N29468 Regular 2004 Mustang V6 Pretty damn slow....guaranteed Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 424	Well i live in illinois and i have Flowmaster 40's catback, Off Road H pipe(noCats), and Mac Longtube headers and i got my emissions done a few days ago and i passed just make sure you get MIL eliminators for the rear 2 sensors so the computer thinks the cats are still functioning. They just hook it up to your obd theres no visual at least where i live.

August 27th, 2008, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by N29468

Well i live in illinois and i have Flowmaster 40's catback, Off Road H pipe(noCats), and Mac Longtube headers and i got my emissions done a few days ago and i passed just make sure you get MIL eliminators for the rear 2 sensors so the computer thinks the cats are still functioning. They just hook it up to your obd theres no visual at least where i live.

You actually passed, for real? what about visual then. Ive gotten mine emissions done in il, with a different car and they checked under my car.

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August 28th, 2008, 02:56 AM	#16
N29468 Regular 2004 Mustang V6 Pretty damn slow....guaranteed Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 424	Yea i was kinda scared to go and i put it off for a long while but everything came up clear. Was it a old car? I think like all 96' and up they use the obd and older they have to do more things.

August 28th, 2008, 09:59 AM	#17
NavySeabee87 Enthusiast 2004 Mustang Gt Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oxnard Ca.-back from deployment! Posts: 824	yea my car was a 92, a chevy,and they used the sniffer on the exhaust, but i really want long tubes and still need it to pass emissions, i dont know what to do __________________ Flowmaster Catback, Bassani O/R X, Steeda RAI, Lightbar, Bullet Wheels, Plenum/T body, Adj. Shocks/struts, Springs, MM CC Plates Grill delete, MILITARY CREW E4

August 28th, 2008, 07:34 PM	#18
N29468 Regular 2004 Mustang V6 Pretty damn slow....guaranteed Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 424	Move back to IL lol

August 28th, 2008, 07:36 PM	#19
NavySeabee87 Enthusiast 2004 Mustang Gt Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Oxnard Ca.-back from deployment! Posts: 824	ok, tell my CO of my battalion that i should move back, thatll fly real good with him lol, but either way still got emissions there too __________________ Flowmaster Catback, Bassani O/R X, Steeda RAI, Lightbar, Bullet Wheels, Plenum/T body, Adj. Shocks/struts, Springs, MM CC Plates Grill delete, MILITARY CREW E4

August 29th, 2008, 12:33 AM	#20
N29468 Regular 2004 Mustang V6 Pretty damn slow....guaranteed Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 424	lol yea i wouldnt try it. Yea but its just all they do here is check your OBD comp. For like 4 seconds then they shut your car off and you pass ,theres no visual expection.

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