Keep that dream alive, every surrounding county that touches Nashville Metro just repealed emissions testing!
Believe it or not, there are actually some benefits to living in a red state. They don magic green gloves, let all the Evos pass catless, but make certain every coal roller walks the plank.

 

The EPA is a Federal Agency, you might want to look into what they have been up to. Then you should contact your elected officials and tell them to support the bipartisan R.P.M. Act.

P.S. Before anyone screams "AHHH THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION"......this has been happening / escalating for a while.

 

Actually the RPM act is different from this discussion. Current EPA rules prohibit turning a modern street car into a dedicated race car. The RPM act would correct this. I am very keen to see this go forward since I have already decided to bypass smog and register my now track-only Evo non-op.

 

Yeah I know, thanks. I was just trying to raise awareness about the RPM act.

 

ah. Mine was disabled because I was having trouble getting keys programmed to my car. It was also kinda nice buying $3 keys.
The laptop I had my stock ROM on died a miserable death, and I'm unable to retrieve the information. Doh!
Hopefully my tuner still has it.

 

I got flagged by the ref. Had to put car back to stock and show proof of factory reflash. It was a pain in the *** needless to say. The ref failed my car due to air inlet duct not on the car while using aem air intake. Had to reschedule another ref appointment. Finally passed smog and looking for a stock ecu to put tunes on for next smog cycle.

 

I got a brain freeze
Can you just take another stock ecu, give it power wire it to a separate obd2,
will that be enough? Hide the original obd2
will it work with just a 12volt plug and just the obd2 plug only?

 

Sadly, it's not that simple. Even if you could install a second OBD2 port and power the second ECU, it would need to be plugged into every single sensor in the car in parallel and obtain the correct signals without controlling the ignition coils. Certainly it would throw a check engine light and cause a ref fail..

The best solution is to have two physical ECUs to swap between smogs. Have one of them flashed to stock by a Mitsubishi dealer and another to tune it to your desires however you want it. CAL ID, Immobilizer, and all the other stupid crap that can fail you will be there when you need it. Swapping the ECU is easy as well. Remove the glove box by removing 1 clip, then it's 3 harness connectors out the bottom of the ecu and three 10mm bolts holding it in.

 

5,000x easier to just flash an OEM rom in your ECU. You all are making things wayyyy too complicated. Save tune, flash OEM rom, drive to smog, pass, drive home, flash back to tune.

 

And if your original ROM got lost in a hard drive crash....
have fun. 😂

 

You don't need the actual original ROM from the car unless you have a crap tuner that turned off your immobilizer. ;P

 

I've had a few locals get flagged for having the wrong cal ID in their "OE ROM" flashed back in the car when using a stock ROM NOT pulled from the car originally. They've all had to have a dealer reflash done. Just flashing in a stock ROM didn't pass in california.

 

That is their fault then. My point still stands. If you flash in the appropriate stock rom for your car, you will pass. It DOES NOT need to be the exact rom pulled from the car. It only has to be an OEM ROM appropriate for the car according to the records. It is up to the owner to know what is the appropriate rom.

I've done this at least 50x over the last three years for people I have tuned in the past. All in California.

 

All supposedly using OE roms, all flagged for tampering. Not my problem, I live where we dont have emissions.

 

They probably didn't match the right ROM ID with the ECU/Records. Some years have a good amount of different ROM ID revisions. Some only have one or two.