I'm surprised you havent just found someone who 'knows someone' who can help you pass the inspection. I have a local friend who has helped me more than once pass an inspection (realize, he isnt an idiot who blindly just writes things up), but he knows that I'll take care of any issues that truely need fixed.

With my mustang...he knows how hard I work to keep it in absolute perfect shape, so it is one of the very few times he will just write up the inspection before I even get there.

It may not be politically correct, but its been nice not to have to deal with some idiot who is actually fabricating some 'issue' so he can try to charge me to repair it...when my buddy tells me 'you need to get this fixed' I know to do it right away.


Andretti

 

Bhead, where are you from? Ny? I'm just one of those guys that tries to fix something themselves before asking anyone to do it for me ya know? But if it fails again with the stock tune I will b emailing brenspeed.

Andretti, I could go to a friend of mine to get it done shady like but when the car is connected to the computer it just says not ready. It atleast needs to be "ready" even if its shady. I've already tried to go down that road hahaha

 

FINALLY IT PASSED!!! All it took was uploading the stock tune, drove it a few hundred miles to b on the safe side and bam, passed. Now I'm off to get it registered, get those new AWFUL looking NY plates and ill b squared away for the summer. Thanks for all the help everyone, rly appreciate it.

 

Just read this this entire thread...Glad you got it to pass.
whew..thank goodness I live in TN now, in my county no Emissions..
yeah I'm about to take my CATs off forever
sry.. but as an ex-Pennsylvanian I felt your pain

 

thanks man, im glad too. what a nightmare! and the kicker is my guy didnt even put the machine up to the exhaust. all he did was hook the computer up, it said ok and he handed me the sticker. all that headache just to make a **** computer happy. ugh

 

I was able to get my car passed here in IL without any trouble, installed the stock airbox and tune, drove around for a half hour and then got in line at the testing lane, it took a half hour to get through the lane, but I passed and immediately went home and put the JLT back on and flashed the computer. The car felt so slow with the stock intake and tune, I had to put it back to modded right away. I don't have longtube headers or gears so it was easy to go back to the stock tune.

 

Thats whats cool about being a kid, my son registers his mustang in a non smog/cheap tabs county.

He stays at his brothers house, make it his home of record....................


We have no smog checks here YET, but tabs are kinda high compared to WA

 

thank god for collectors plates in ohio.just got em for my 06.dont have to worry about e check..

 

Jason, you actually dont need to get the new NY plates, they're optional. Just another way for the state to make money.

 

Hey mike, are they really optional? Who in their right mind would want those on their car?

 

http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/empgold/faq.htm - there ya go. I dunno, I def wasn't getting them unless it was madatory.

 

Glad to hear you passed inspection! I took mine in for inspection yesterday and passed with flying colors with a Vortech V2 installed, very happy! it would really suck if I had to put the car back to stock.

 

thats awesome james! i think it was all because of the tune i had on there the entire time. didnt realized that i had the o2 sensors shut off and when i finally flashed her back to stock it passed.