Passed Air Care Without a Cat
01-02-2013 | 09:37 PM
#1
Passed AirCare Without a Cat
My '04 RX8 just passed Air Car without a friggin' Catalytic Converter!
My insurance is due a few days from now, and had to get it Air Cared. Problem is, I've got a few mods: MS CAI, Full TurboXS Exhaust w/Race Pipe (resonated, NO Cat), GarageLine Header, and MazdaManiac Tune. I didn't want to go through the hassle of installing the stock Cat, then removing it afterwards. So I decided to chance it, and go through Air Care Testing with Race Pipe.
Drove in, passed the visual inspection - which totally baffles me, considering I don't even have a Cat LOL. Perhaps he thought the resonator was a Cat? Then it passed the OBDII testing - thanks to the MazdaManiac Tune (masks all emissions codes).
With AirsCare ending in Dec. 2014, hopefully this is the last time I'll have to go through this cash-grab.
My insurance is due a few days from now, and had to get it Air Cared. Problem is, I've got a few mods: MS CAI, Full TurboXS Exhaust w/Race Pipe (resonated, NO Cat), GarageLine Header, and MazdaManiac Tune. I didn't want to go through the hassle of installing the stock Cat, then removing it afterwards. So I decided to chance it, and go through Air Care Testing with Race Pipe.
Drove in, passed the visual inspection - which totally baffles me, considering I don't even have a Cat LOL. Perhaps he thought the resonator was a Cat? Then it passed the OBDII testing - thanks to the MazdaManiac Tune (masks all emissions codes).
With AirsCare ending in Dec. 2014, hopefully this is the last time I'll have to go through this cash-grab.
Last edited by van; 01-02-2013 at 11:58 PM.
01-02-2013 | 10:30 PM
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yeah well, a simple visual inspection to do an emission test on a vehicle is complete bullshit if one is to find out the efficiency of a vehicle's emissions.
If they did a proper test and calculated what's coming out of the exhaust as they do in Ontario, there's no way in hell you'd pass. Consider yourself lucky you don't live where I do.
If they did a proper test and calculated what's coming out of the exhaust as they do in Ontario, there's no way in hell you'd pass. Consider yourself lucky you don't live where I do.
01-03-2013 | 01:43 AM
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yeah well, a simple visual inspection to do an emission test on a vehicle is complete bullshit if one is to find out the efficiency of a vehicle's emissions.
If they did a proper test and calculated what's coming out of the exhaust as they do in Ontario, there's no way in hell you'd pass. Consider yourself lucky you don't live where I do.
If they did a proper test and calculated what's coming out of the exhaust as they do in Ontario, there's no way in hell you'd pass. Consider yourself lucky you don't live where I do.
thewird
01-04-2013 | 02:56 PM
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Yeah, I take back what I said earlier. I had go in for a test myself, and passed with no cat whatsoever - just a racing beat resonator. I love how the government must think this is progress... lol
01-15-2013 | 11:41 AM
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I used to have a '91 626 Turbo, and the only way to get thru Aircare,
was take the tank down to fumes, then throw in 3 litres of methyl hydrate.(cheap
at the paint store). You would think they would be suspicous when they got
nearly no readings from an old car.
was take the tank down to fumes, then throw in 3 litres of methyl hydrate.(cheap
at the paint store). You would think they would be suspicous when they got
nearly no readings from an old car.
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