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you do a couple, and there will most likely be 2people there, so 2 people stumpling around in the dark trying to get rims off, i think its a pretty safe bet that 1 of them will stand on it...

lol there job is not 2 check for modifications... they are not the "bigger turbo police" or the "injector inspectors" they are the EPA - Environmental Protection Agency there job is to protect the environment, by making making sure u aint making either noise polution or emmisions pollution... if your car is modified and still complies it will pass, put a standard air box n zorst on, make sure it aint running rich and put the catch can in the shed for a bit... and my chipped ECU was fine, was lying on the passenger floor at the time, wid a big shiny "custom chipped by Electronic Automotive sticker on it" and i also had 1 on the back window aswell as a sticker with "James Race Engines". and i had extra wires hanging out the ECU for extra knock sensors... so please stop with the shit that u cant have a modified this and that... you dont know what your on about and ur filling peoples heads with crap.... take my old car for instance... big cam V8 wid high compression, bigger injectors, bigger throttle body etc... how is that supposed 2 pass EPA with out a remapped computer? should i strip the engine down n return it 2 standard? ...yea right. would have been less effort to sell the car, think about it, there would be 200 cars a week in the paper wit no rego for sale because of not passing EPA.... it jus doesnt make sense... and thing that dont make sense usually just aint true - Judge Judy

first thing i would do is buy a new set of lock nuts..... no questions asked. and are u sure 1 locknut didnt jus vibrate itself off? but anywayz thing to do : 1. get a couple a mates over wait up and see who comes along... 2. go to bunnings buy some criket bat size peices of wood (jus a bit thinner) and a heap of 3inch nails, sharpen the nails with a bench grinder or angle grinder (u want these babies sharp) nail them threw the peice of wood facing up (make sure they are spaced apart, so they dont support the weight of the foot when stood on) paint them the same color as your driveway and place in darker spots (ie: between car and fence) also remove all exteroir lighting for best effect. 3. install a sensor light... 4. lock the gate....

but please do keep in mind that you can only go so far with the tune because there is no way that a RB25 wid a RB30 bottom end running 27PSI and the best possible tune will spit out less or equal carbon to a stocker RB25DET

*sigh*.... some people jus dont get it... when you go have an EPA test at McCloud, they do an EMMISIONS TEST there and then! they messsure the carbon monoxide (correct me if im wrong on the what they test for) levels in parts per million (PPM) and deem if it passes or not.... now to go a bit further in detials for those who are extra thick: lets say purely for arguments sake that a standard RB25DET running on 7 pounds produces 100PPM carbon monoxide standard on a stock standard shit fuel ready 16:1 AFR map. now that safe level u have to stay under is 100PPM, if u have a bigger turbo, bigger injectors, plenium even more boost as long as u stay under the 100ppm ur safe, now the way to do this is to have your car custom tuned, when cars are tuned they make more power and use less petrol because they run better AFR's (and a few other things; spark timing etc), instead of running a 16:1 shit fuel ready bomb tune, they will adjust so u run something a bit closer to 14.7:1 which is the optimum level... now since you now run a leaner AFR the amount of carbon u spit out the exhaust will be less, hence how people with half a brain pass modified cars....

i dont think u know what you are talking about, keep your 'rules of thumbs' to the thumbs n concenrate on the 'laws of emissions' *i passed in December last year, with far from stock bright shiney blue Pacemaker extractors... *and i had a nice lumpy camshaft (this was in a EFI V8) which was very audible.... *and bigger injectors which are clearly visable..... did they care? NO! did it pass? YES.... why?!... because it passed emmisions and noise tests how does having a bigger turbo effect emmisions? and aslong as the A/F ratios are correct and your car isnt spitting stupid amounts of petrol out the ass it doesnt matter! and furthermore almost all cars ECU's are adjustable standard...

why would the PFC cause you to fail instantly? im fairly certain having aftermarket engine managment is not a breach of an EPA guideline, and also having an aftermarket turbo doesnt mean "your gone"... i think your getting just a little too worked up... when you go to the EPA place, they pop your bonnet to check PCV (possivite crankcase ventilation) hoses, then stick a probe up the ass to check emmisions, im pretty sure its done on idle, acceleration and deccel, its not that hard to past as your car isnt under anyload (its free reving) so it shouldnt be pissing that much fuel in anyway... then they take it 20m up too a open area and do a noise test, now they test your car at 3/4 of peak power (so for a skyline i could imagine about 4500RPM) and they also test for decelleration noise output aswell, so any burble or backfire will get caught out... to pass, put a standard exhaust on, and a standard air box with standard filter, make sure the PCV is connected and turn the boost down and have sum1 tune the PFC to suit... n if u are really keen, heat wrape ur cat, with some off the shelf heat wrap stuff from ur local auto store (raising the temp of the cat, burns off more nasties but shortens the life of it) EPA is not that hard, just a bit of a headache, dont go forkin out all this cash to go back 2 standard etc, im pretty sure if u fail u jus have 2 get retested... but you only have a month before your rego is suspended, but the EPA's number will be on the forms you recieved in the mail, give them a call....

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ok i have a 33 gtst, it already has a knob job SAFC wired up in the glovy, now apart from the fact that u can tune the AFM decelleration values with the SAFC2 (so u can run a ATMO BOV) wot other 'plus's' does the SAFC2 have aposed to the knob job?

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