So, am I the only one planning on going to Detroit? No one else is making the treck!?

 

i doubt i will be able to make it out there. maybe next year?

 

Boooo. Well, if anyone is planning the journey to the best auto show in the country on the 18th of this month, please PM me. It would be a blast to drive up to Detroit with other Evos .

 

Sorry man no go here as well

 

Here is the story......Yes I can inspect the car.... Yes it would pass obdII as long as the drive cycles are met.....Last the fine if a trooper or under cover checks your car is 5000.00 fine plus loss of inspection license.......Its just easier to put the cat back on for a few hours........

 

5 grand? my lord.

is that the same fine for high flow cats that claim to be 49 state legal as well?

or is that one of those things that i would have to prove to them?

 

A cat is cat,,, high flow low flow, etc.... The way a trooper checks is by temp....As far as I care, a high flow cat is legal....And yes I pass the car with high flow cats....

 

So in all reality Mike, a gutted cat would also be okay??? Most Hiflow's still cause CEL's anyhow, so it really wouldn't be any different.

 

5 grand fine for driving with no cat but you can yap on your cell phone all day while driving........... ****1ng hippies.

 

You're right, that makes total sense

 

Lets put it this way. I dont go out of my way to check if they are there or not.....If its gutted out, I know nothing.........I do a visual inspection by state law.. If it apears to be there,,, then it is.....

 

Exemptions

If the car is driven under 5000 miles a year, it can have a check engine light on , no cat...no exhaust... etc , it still passes as a exempt car... I only know one guy that has an evo but hardly drives it ...

 

I thought it still had to pass visual?

 

Nope, under 5k you get a nice little exempt sticker. At least one of our cars gets one each year.

Ditto our diesel powered friends. Also if your car was factory rated at over 6000lbs GVW then you don't need emissions. There was a NICE tax break for 6k lb + vehicles for year too.


For those interested road race engineering makes a "rally cat" that should provide the flow characteristics you are looking for while still passing the visual tests.

 

mine has one of those nice exempt stickers. The problem there is you really don't drive your car all that much then.