OMG!!!!!!! THIS FAILED MY HKS EXHAUST!!!!!

They said the HKS doc. only say the HKS meet the SOUND part, not the emission. He needs the E.O. number for my HKS!!!!


Need serious help here, I just asked a day + $30 for nothing.

 

most of you guys know my story, Fremont referee failed my HKS exhaust. They said my HKS doc. only mention about the noise, not emission.


Needs serious help here, people.

 

wtf? no way!?

 

I am not kidding!!! They said i need a E.0. number. But there is NO F*king EO number for HKS. I am so frastrating right now. This is like double pissed-off.

 

who the hell did the test... exhaust doesnt effect emissions, if so all the trucks and domestics with their custom flowmaster setups would be fkkd and so would all the rice fartcans with cheap fireball mufflers...

i think youre the first one they made go through this... the only exhaust mods that are subject to carb eo are the cat and anything before the cat. the cat is what kills the fumes. if you go to the arb website under exhaust they do not list any mufflers or catback systems

"Fortunately, our performance exhaust systems are perfectly legal because they retain your factory-installed catalytic converter" from flowmaster website

my suggestion is to ask for their supervisior and bring that to their attention. you still have factory cats... they tried to fail me for my intercooler when i had my dsm before. the guy who tested you might just be new?

 

put your stock one back on temporarily... ask all the honda/nissan/toyota guys lol they do it all the time

Just like a fix-it ticket

 

ok i just called to confirm this from my buddy who used to work at state ref, now has his own smog shop. carb does not regulate anything past the cat ask for a supervisor/different technician because there will be no EO # since carb does not regulate this.

 

They said my OEM exhuast has 4 cat, but the HKS only has 2 cats. HE did called the supervisor, no help at all.


wait!! The carb # does not regular the exhaust? Then how to judge which exahust is good which is bad?

 

taking off the HKS is a hard. This is an innocent ticket from the beginning and now i have to do all these stupid work.

 

^Is there a document to support this that we can print? This is getting ridiculous man..

kenempireex:
sorry to hear about this man.. Did they run a smog-check on your car? Did you fail? I'm a little nervous now as I'll be doing the same test this Friday.

niM

 

don't go to the one in Fremont!!!!!! I just talked to the supervisor and they said I NEED TO HAVE E0# for my exhaust, everything else is BAD part

 

I thought they would just re-smog it and see if it passed then you would have the paper work which states it's fully approved.

 

let me know if u need a hook up.

 

i am so glad we dont have that here in Flordia

 

Another thread on this same subject said to stay away from Fremont one and go to Alameda one. Think we know why now. Those guys in Fremont are either dumb or like to yank ppl's chains. Damn that sux, oem has 4 cats...uhh I don't think so and HKS is a cat-back exhaust...uhh...hello state ref no E0# needed