Went through Emissions today....

[mrnickleye]

AND.. not all smog machines are equal.

I just did mine last week. Had to go to a Test Only center, so I ran it up on my machine, and it was beautiful.

Then, I leave it running, drive 3 blocks to the other place, which has the same brand machine as mine, and shit if i didn't just barely pass.

I found out later that his machine needed servicing.

I passed...because mine was super clean to begin with....but I guess those poor suckers with dirtier exhausts are all failed that day.

There is a wide margin of 'legal' machine calibration. I had just had my machine serviced the day before, while the other guys machine really needed it.

[IHateHacks]

I showed a bunch of tech buddies of mine and they think it passed with "flying colors", I know that saying is over rated but they see ALOT of newer cars that pass with higher numbers. Plus alot of people say, "Yeah mine passed with flying colors", but I don't see a sheet to prove it. I want to see another supra that passed with lower numbers than me.

And I've never seen a car with lower NOx than that. 161?!?! That is unheard of for a 20 year old turbo car. I guess I must have done sumtin right when I replaced my head gasket. Cleaning out the EGR passages do WONDERS for this engine.

Well as of 9am this morning, I took the whole exhaust off my car. Turbine elbow, downpipe, cat and catback are now in my junk parts pile. Took me about an hour because I had to die grind the bolts off the cat. I had the downpipe off in 20 minutes, it's only the about the 20th time its been off. I'm ordering a blitz spec nur 3" stainless and a 3" stainless TMS downpipe with built in turbine elbow on monday. My 3" stainless test pipe came in yesterday, it sure is purdy. Should have all of it by the end of this week. I will post pics when I get it.

[IHateHacks]

Just received my NUR spec exhaust, just waiting on my titanmotorsports downpipe.



"All that chingy chang chong talk, I can't understand you....."



So that's how it goes!!! I love Japan, anything that comes out of Japan is far superior than any american made garbage. ARP is american made so there are exceptions.



Thats my custom built yellow pc in the background, "dude, its not a dell...."



Vrooooommm..... Yeah can you tell I'm excited, I'm acting like a little kid here

Total cost, downpipe testpipe catback with shipping $1022. And yeah my mommy and daddy didn't pay for it. I work hard for my money and spend it wisely. Matter of fact, they would shit a brick if they knew how much I spent.

[supramacist]

GodDamit......, That is BEAUTIFULL.

I stopped telling my old man what I give for tools or parts because he always has to spend the rest of the convo telling me how ignorant I was for either...,

Not buying the tools cheap enough, like used $hit from a pawn shop. All the way too..., I guess you had to have one of the most expensive HG's I could find.

I don't have time for his opinion if it's negative and he's my old man. SO that means the rest of you are preaching to the chior!

NICE A$$ NICE, man. Makes me want one. But the 3 inch would be overkill on an NA.

[west_side_supra]

haha i bet im louder im running right off of a 3inch defcon DP, thats it, my 3inch test pipe is being welded up again. and then im going to put that on. then it will go through the stock pipes to a aftermarket like ebay muffler, dont know where my friend got it but i used it. should be interesting sounding.

[ddmcse]

kewl pipe huh ?!!

you can hear mine idle on my web site

[IHateHacks]

West_side I doubt it, running through the stock 2" piping is a major restriction. Ebay muffler? Yeah, thats gay. I really don't care how loud it is, its about performance. A full 3" exhaust with no cats is dyno proven to make an extra 30whp on a stock turbo supra.

ddmcse, yeah I know what it sounds like, that day you picked up the lapping tool from me and you drove by my house I was in the middle of my house and I heard you. I was like "what is THAT!?" I ran to the nearest window and almost shit myself, because it was a supra. Then I remembered that you were coming over today and I put 2 and 2 together. At first I thought it was just some supra from around my town. But there are no modded turbo MK3's in my town. Shit, I don't think there are any turbo MK3's besides mine in town.

[mrnickleye]

Was that emissions test at idle, 2500rpm, dyno, or what?

Here in L.A. County and other heavily populated ones, its a dyno test at 15mph, and then 25mph.

The others, its at idle, then 2500rpm.

Some rural counties still don't have testing.

[j3pz]

my county dont need have emmisions tests... just have to pass inspections. we have a small rural county with a naval base that attracts alot of jobs and business. county and navy base made a deal that we dont need emmissions test... sweet!