Scotty

The UP is not a concern for smog, they look for the main cat in the DP before the rear O2 sensor. I asked a tech this before and as long as the main cat is in place and the sniffer passes, that's all they care about. '05 - '06 models

There's no sniffer test. Just OBD and visual. The visual is dependant on how thorough the inspector is. I have a co-worker that failed because the cat part number was incorrect. Whereas I go to places that are not as thorough.

Yes the end cap, just the drivers side. It's loose because your clip is already broken. I don't think anyone can remove it the traditional way without breaking the lower clip. After I broke mine the first time and ordered a replacement, I go in with needle nose pliers through the fuse door and squeeze and push the clip out.

The passenger side doesn't have the fragile clip on the bottom.

Just had mine done, sure enough they snapped the clip on the driver's side cover. I had a feeling that was going to happen, since I learned the hard way that you need to push the clip out going through the opening for the fuses. Now waiting for them to order a new one.

When you have yours done, make sure to check the driver's side cover to see if they broke the clip. The bottom will flop open if you just give it a slight pull. The passenger side is completely different and won't break when removed.

You guys have put crazy miles on your cars. LGT #1 ~ 54k miles, LGT #2 ~40k miles.

You just don't drive anywhere. Used to commute 150 miles a day, now only 75 miles a day. The longest vacation trip was 2220 miles in 7 days. That trip was fun, averaged 100 mph for an hour following two semi's with 3 trailers each. Didn't know they can go that fast, uphill.

Back in the day we called this stereo-lithography and you could coat the wax type material in ceramics, allow it to harden and do it a few times, melt the wax out and pour aluminum and or the alloy of choice. Then allow it to harden and break off the ceramics and your part/parts would be within =/-.005. It was used to make fast models and rarely for production. Not even in a LRIP (low initial rate production) mode. Too expensive and that was over 15 years ago. Ironic that HP plans to break up and one of the divisions will be 3D printing. I've heard they can make food and other costly parts of pure alloys. They may make machinist a thing of the past?

Stereolithography, aka SLA, is still stereolithography today. SLA involves using lasers to cure a resin. All the 3D printing you see today is Fused Deposition Modeling where a filament is extruded onto a bed, layer by layer.

3D printing will not make machinist a thing of the past. 3D printing is slow. Painfully slow. Most parts can be made quicker with a mill than a 3D printer.

3D printed metals are only about 93% whole, 7% voids. They also exhibit about 93% of the structural strength. You would still need to do finish work on it in order to use it because of the surface finish. It can be a substitute for low volume castings. Koneggiseeggggeeggegsseggsge has started using 3D printed titanium for some of their parts because of their extremely low production volume.

They're not really trying to catch sophisticated cheaters, but people who have failing emissions systems.

If it was really about emission, what comes out of the tailpipe should be the determining factor. It shouldn't matter what you do between the intake and the exhaust as long as what comes out is below a certain level.

It is either smog testing or no smog testing between various counties, not more or less strict.

Yes, they do a full visual check.

My coworker's gf works for BAR and we asked her what the OBDII test entails. She said it was mainly the check engine light and making sure all the emissions stuff is still working.

now that's BS, staying on the record yes, but failing for hogzaust?

 

they can't do anything about the exhaust system after the cat

 

I can have straight pipe after the cat and they can't fail me

http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/ca-advisory-hogzawst-fails-ca-smog-167587.html?p=3499322

Failing means you need to fix it and retest. $$$ Oh and it'll go in the car's record. Someone had the Hogzaust and failed, and the failed test showed up when they were selling the car.

The most obvious giveaway when they do the visual inspection is they look for polish stainless pipes.

Technically, ANY IC is legal provided that you are using the OE turbo. See page G-7, http://www.bar.ca.gov/80_BARResources/ftp/pdfdocs/APPENDIX%20G%20final%2012-2009.pdf

I haven't failed yet by two different smog shops and one actually took off the engine cover and actually looked around.