Ive done a search on this but cant find much, but what do you guys with cams,blowers,turbos,and other mods do about emissions? Im looking to have tuning beyond the radix tune done but Im a little nervous. Is there something special you do to get around it or what?

 

Passing the sniffer is the easy part, just make sure you have healthy catalytic converters. Since the PCM monitors O2 and adjusts accordingly, as long as low-throttle and rpm tuning is close to stock it will stay clean enough to pass. It's the visual inspection that can get tedious. Removal of anything emissions-related, either physically or in tuning, is asking for trouble.

My truck passed its last smog inspection (here in CA) "legally" last year. I say "legally" because at the time it had true-dual exhaust, which technically is not legal here. It was overlooked because everything else was in check. I have since added an illegal intake manifold and will soon be adding illegal headers with illegal catalytic converters. I still have all the other smog stuff. We'll see what happens next time...

 

If you lived in Texas, you just go to a small farming town and get an inspection there, they don't care what you have done to your truck, but you might have to give a $7.50 tip, inspection cost $12.50, total $20. I spent $15 dollars on my last inspection and I had all the lights in a taillight assembly out (due to moisture), a high beam headlight out, and my wipers sucked a$$. However in Texas there is no emission test that I know of.

 

live near Houston and you WILL have to worry abut emissions...
but as long as the PCM is not throwing any codes they will pass you, after the visual inpection..
they only sniff 96 and older vehicles here

 

Same here in Denton county

 

I love College Station....Brazos County has now emissions!!!! Inspection is cheap.

 

When I was going to A&M, I hated getting inspection in College Station. Everytime I went I wasted $12.50, they told me everytime that my parking brake is not working. Well the dumb a$$ did the 35 mph test, go 35 and slam on the parking brake, part of the test drive so you don't see them do it (I went with them on the last one and bitch the guy out for doing that and reported them to the DMV). The DMV recommended test for the parking brake, is to the parking brake and stall the truck up to 2000 rpms, if it moves with easy it fails, if it does not move it passes. The parking brake shoes on my truck are smaller than my mom's toyota corolla rear brake shoes, do you really think they can slow down a 6000 lb truck in 20 feet, I don't think so. So I ended up going to Muenster (closes town to my dad with a service station) and get an inspection sticker, this guy only checks the headlights and taillights but then most of truck drive around without registration and inspection.

 

that really must suck, emmissions and all, i feel bad for yall, we have not got any thing what so ever. BUT what will they do if you fail? who does the testing?and is there cheating ways? tapping into yur exhaust and pumping in oxygen via oxygen tank?/???

 

ha what emissions. dont have to worry about it where im at.

 

No emmisions here either. I think if I had to deal with that my truck would just have nitrous on it.