How many of you Kalifornyan's with 24v e30's are smog legal?
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Cat has to correspond with the motor. That's actuallyone of two places where I fucked up on the exhaust. Everything was custom from the headers back. Started as dual pipes with an xpipe where the o2 sensor was located back to a 2to1 cat to 2.5" back.
The o2 wasn't in the stock position (in the cat) and the cat was for the body and not the motor. So I changed the cat and routed the o2 sensor into the stock placement, badabing badaboom I pass.
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I love how scared some of the peeps in this thread are.
I have a OBD1 S52 that is bar'd. 3.5in HFM, AA tuning with Split second piggy back, custom CAI with a Dinan bar sticker, 3in exhaust with hi flow cat, and 24lb injectors. Passed no problem. My car now smogs as a '95 M3.Comment
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So when I first embarked on this swap project last year, I called up the BAR and their procedure had changed (due to state budget cuts)...to get the actual sticker, all you need to do is go through a quick "safety inspection", pay $8-9, and get your sticker. No more refs. They were leaving it up to the neighborhood smog shops to do all the checks (as part of a normal smog check).
Smoove1, can you confirm if this was the case?
It was the whole reason I started the swap project in the first place -- especially after hearing the BAR ref horror stories from before 2009.sigpic
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I love how scared some of the peeps in this thread are.
I have a OBD1 S52 that is bar'd. 3.5in HFM, AA tuning with Split second piggy back, custom CAI with a Dinan bar sticker, 3in exhaust with hi flow cat, and 24lb injectors. Passed no problem. My car now smogs as a '95 M3.
So when I first embarked on this swap project last year, I called up the BAR and their procedure had changed (due to state budget cuts)...to get the actual sticker, all you need to do is go through a quick "safety inspection", pay $8-9, and get your sticker. No more refs. They were leaving it up to the neighborhood smog shops to do all the checks (as part of a normal smog check).
Smoove1, can you confirm if this was the case?
It was the whole reason I started the swap project in the first place -- especially after hearing the BAR ref horror stories from before 2009.Comment
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I love how scared some of the peeps in this thread are.
I have a OBD1 S52 that is bar'd. 3.5in HFM, AA tuning with Split second piggy back, custom CAI with a Dinan bar sticker, 3in exhaust with hi flow cat, and 24lb injectors. Passed no problem. My car now smogs as a '95 M3.FeedbackInstagram - @e30_mtech2Comment
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So when I first embarked on this swap project last year, I called up the BAR and their procedure had changed (due to state budget cuts)...to get the actual sticker, all you need to do is go through a quick "safety inspection", pay $8-9, and get your sticker. No more refs. They were leaving it up to the neighborhood smog shops to do all the checks (as part of a normal smog check).
Smoove1, can you confirm if this was the case?
It was the whole reason I started the swap project in the first place -- especially after hearing the BAR ref horror stories from before 2009.
Any time you want.Comment
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Going to the ref was easy, took like five minutes. didnt even smog my car there.
he told me I could just do it at work.
obd 1 swap basic checks for ref are
-tank vent valve connected.
-charcoal canister
-check engine lamp operational
-cat conveter present
-some what picky on intake air cleaners.
-Pete.Last edited by Red325es; 07-30-2011, 12:20 AM.Comment
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