06-27-2007, 12:01 PM
p51, if most places did the etesting according to their training, they would fail most people running a race header. ;)
They can fail you on the visual portion (not one etest technician that ive seen has physically put the car on the hoist, and checked the exhaust/emmisions equipment) which is basically to look and make sure your cat, EGR, PCV, really any emmisions equipment that came from the factory, is still there and operational.
Thats what I was explained anyways when visting the multiple places trying to get my focus to pass etest...btw, most technicians dont even agree with it (like us), I was complaining about that when I went to 2 different shops in one day and got very different results on both tests from just gapping the plugs, and cleaning out the MAF. It's a money grab, especially when you have some stupid non self tuning device such as a diablo chip and you have to pay for retunes :angry:
They can fail you on the visual portion (not one etest technician that ive seen has physically put the car on the hoist, and checked the exhaust/emmisions equipment) which is basically to look and make sure your cat, EGR, PCV, really any emmisions equipment that came from the factory, is still there and operational.
Thats what I was explained anyways when visting the multiple places trying to get my focus to pass etest...btw, most technicians dont even agree with it (like us), I was complaining about that when I went to 2 different shops in one day and got very different results on both tests from just gapping the plugs, and cleaning out the MAF. It's a money grab, especially when you have some stupid non self tuning device such as a diablo chip and you have to pay for retunes :angry: