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Hey everyone, its abit of a long boring one.

I've recently been pulled by one of the local police officers for the mods done to my car (engine related). The car is externally stock but has the usual goodies of pod, intercooler, exhaust, magic catalytic converter, power fc and aftermarket turbo. He told me if I don’t get the mods engineered and an air box for the car or he's going to fine/defect me.

So I called Terry Toomey, who is an engineering consultant. I asked about getting the mods engineered. He's basically told me;

- A programmable ECU can’t be engineered (anything that a laptop can be plugged into, although a chipped ECU is fine according to Terry)

- Air filter must be boxed because it’s a fire hazard and causes emissions issues.

- Exhaust under 92db@3000rpm(I think) and 100mm off the ground at the lowest point.

- The turbo and intercooler need an emissions test to be able to engineer them.

Any more that I don’t know about????

So I’ve booked myself in at Penrith RTA (BOTANY DONT DO THEM NO MORE) for the 10th of April for an emissions test.

Has anyone done one of these???

If I was to go out there with the mods I have but with the air box fixed and replace the cat converter with one which won’t pose any problems, will I pass the test???? Will they check the ECU??

I just want to know to what extent I have to go to pass the test.

Thanks in advanced.

George

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Adam,

what he explained to me was because you can drive out of the emissions test and change the maps. But on the flip side you can pretty much do that to all OEM R32 ECU's and many more, just takes abit longer.

I'm just relaying what Terry told me

George

I don't see how a programmable ECU is a defect or unengineerable as long as it passes the emmissions test.

yer i was reading in the new motor magazine with defects etc, aftermarket ecu's are engineerable as long as they pass all emissions test,

if u put a cai box around ur pod which u should anyway since it would be sucking in hot air then the intercooler mod would not need engineering (but still put it on there)

i need to go get mine engineered in a week or 2 as long as an emissions test also.

u can get ur car engineered with a nice exhaust not too loud then come home and wack some big mofo on there

ben...

whats the average price of engineering common mods such as exhaust, FMIC & pod?

most places will tell you around 400-500 to do the whole car, i know a guy who does them for 250.

his name is John, his number is 0412 253 973

I've had a read, as long as the car meets ADR 36&37 (emissions) and ADR 28 (exhaust noise) than I don't see why there would be an issue..

there may be particular rules that I haven't found.. e.g. you can't run a non oem ECU on your car.. but i'm not paying $30 for the current ADR's..

as long as your car passes.. than insurance companies should cover the car..

  • 1 month later...

Full Engineers Reports cost 800 and thats front bumper to back bumper and anything in between!!!. I had my car engineered last week, which included my exhaust, cooler, gauges, steering wheel, suspension, and a whole lot more other crap

yeah... what richard said... least with the pfc you can tune your car/play with the figures to pass the emissions test... thats what i did... i honestly think you have more of a chance passing if you can do that!!!

also from memory the exhaust reading needs to be 90db at 4800rpm... thats what i got tested on.. not sure if thats changed!

the emissions guys don't check ANYTHING on your car.. all they do is chuck it on a dyno... and then drive through a normal cruise scenario that they'll follow on the computer screen.. they don't even rev it past 4k that i can remember.. its all very sedate... the emissions guy is nice at penrith... he was very friendly and helpful...

anyways.. hope that helps.. let me know how it goes... good luck!!

Moanie

had my test today.

Seems that i had leaned it out alittle too much (via powerfc) as the NOx level were abit high, but the dyno operator at Penrith said it upto the engineer if its will pass now. The NOx was 0.09 above the norm.

we'll see how it goes

  • 4 weeks later...

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