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One of the newer tenants in my complex is an exhaust parts wholesaler, Cactus Converter. I met the owner and talked to him tonight about the cruiser, he looked at the truck, had some good ideas and said he knew a couple of good shops to do it. Then said I would not touch the exhaust on your truck, the emissions stations are installing new software that brings up a picture of the bottom side and the monkeys look for your truck to match, if it doesn't you will get additional scrutiny, it may be up to you to prove it's in compliance or change it back to stock!
He is worried about the future of his business, said some of the national exhaust organizations are working in Arizona to find a solution. According to him some of his custom shops have had to do some screwy stuff to get customers car through emissions. They are targeting any cars that look custom, duel exhausts, done with legal cats and O2 sensors, they have had to plumb both sides into one cat then split after the cat to the back, because the truck only came with one cat from the factory. A bunch of custom jobs have been converted back it stock configuration.
His advice is if it's OBD2 don't touch the exhaust, unless your willing to keep the stock one and install it to go through emissions every other year! This is only in the last couple of months and only in some stations, they are working on getting it installed in all of the stations ASAP. With the new system the old "go down the street and see what the next station says" gig won't work, they are all networked and your VIN brings up the monkeys notes, so they will look at the something.
He is worried about the future of his business, said some of the national exhaust organizations are working in Arizona to find a solution. According to him some of his custom shops have had to do some screwy stuff to get customers car through emissions. They are targeting any cars that look custom, duel exhausts, done with legal cats and O2 sensors, they have had to plumb both sides into one cat then split after the cat to the back, because the truck only came with one cat from the factory. A bunch of custom jobs have been converted back it stock configuration.
His advice is if it's OBD2 don't touch the exhaust, unless your willing to keep the stock one and install it to go through emissions every other year! This is only in the last couple of months and only in some stations, they are working on getting it installed in all of the stations ASAP. With the new system the old "go down the street and see what the next station says" gig won't work, they are all networked and your VIN brings up the monkeys notes, so they will look at the something.
They can't run it on the dyno either, because of fulltime 4wd. So I should still get off pretty easy, unless they start carrying pics of all pre- OBDII vehicles.
