Emissions Question

[TruBluScreamer]

So I have been told that Emissions Testing has changed completely. Ive been told that they no longer hook up the pipes to the exhaust but that they just hook into your OBD port and if everything is Kosher then they send you on your way. Now im curious I dont have cats on my car and i would imagine that without those my car would not pass emissions. Now my question is if they only hook into your OBD port and there is no trouble code for the cats not being there am i in the clear?? I have never thrown a check engine light so i would imagine that it was taken care of with the tune or the programmer

[AZSonicSnake]

yup. your free and clear holmes. you and i have discussed this one before. lol....

[IMSHAKN]

Glad you brought this up as I'm kind of worried about taking mine in this month for it's first emissions test... I'm worried they may smell that it's running a tad rich or raise some red flags because of how loud it is. Almost tempted to put the stock pipe on just for emissions.

[AZSonicSnake]

they will check your gas cap, and plug into the obd port, and check for CEL's. no sniffer or anything like that. not sure how many stations do a visual, but if your cats are missing, you could fail a visual. otherwise, there should not be any problems.

[TruBluScreamer]

they will check your gas cap, and plug into the obd port, and check for CEL's. no sniffer or anything like that. not sure how many stations do a visual, but if your cats are missing, you could fail a visual. otherwise, there should not be any problems.

Yeah thats what im worried about is a visual but its not until august so maybe i can buy or borrow some cats for the test

[FalconGTHO]

I thought they run a mirror on a stick underneath to check for cats?

[AZSonicSnake]

they can, but i have had two cars go through and they did not. but then again, neither were anything that would likely warrant it.

[YellowGT5.0]

Had any one been emission tested by the williams field air base? Because i do have the the stock pipe with cats but i'd rather just not install them and try to pass !! I just wanted to know if anyone had gone there, and do they check under your car?

[99WhiteGT]

no i havnt been there but there is one on...greenfield and brown (or just pass brown) that i went to and they dont check underneath

[DesertMach]

I just got the Mach tested last week, all they did was put the tester in the OBD port and then start the car for about 20 seconds, and said I was done, then I had to pull forward where they check the gas cap, when the guy went to check the gas cap he found it still had the strap on it (original gas cap) so he just screwed the cap back on and never tested it.
They never did a visual check for cats or under the hood, the complete test took about 4 minutes.