i dont know if any of you guys live in ohio but if you do im sure youve heard that sometime next year ohio is eliminating emissions checks... so other than the obvious gutting cats and things of that nature what can i do to my gs-t that i couldnt when emissions were in place

 

i was an emissions inspector in PA, where they are VERY strict...the biggest thing that i can think about based on PA laws are, with the emissions check, you obviously have to have a CAT, and you are not permitted to "significantly alter your exhaust setup. an example (this doesnt apply so much to most of the cars here)...but say you have a V8 car, as i do. under the PA emissions laws, I am not permitted to make a true dual exhaust setup..."because they said so". i still have one, and i have to find ways around the emissions testing, but my car, with the setup that i once had actually runs cleaner than my winter beater truck, which has a CAT.

emissions laws werent made to help the environment...they were made to help line the gov'ts pockets more

bottom line, removing the CAT will be your biggest gain, especially on a turbo car...i already have it cut out on my turbo car, but i live in a non-emissions state now.

 

are there any other gains in hp i can benifit from now though because i dont have to follow the bull**** emissiosn anymore?

 

the only thing that i could figure, you now have ALOT more leeway in tuning, because you dont have to worry about the level of FCs...

 

am' from california, just want to say: WELCOME TO THE E.C.U. CLUB!!!.....LOL anyway....first of all cat converter, try to find a high flow but legal converters. then the O sensor unit...you will find some good O sensors out there ( i.e. bosch )

 

dont start buying parts just becase the laws are gone, get them becuase you want them. I dont know about other states but in cali just about anything will fail visual inspection, and that includes bovs, any exhaust mods before and including the cat, and intalke pipes/filters, a font mount, bigger turbo etc. Theres no way to pass unless you replace everything back to stock. the only thing you can argue is a cat back exhaust because the law clearly states that they are emissions legal, but just may not be sound legal.

 

well my point is when emissions are gone i wont have to worry aboutthe laws