Cops Got Me :(

[SNIFLS]

Hey all

So today whilst driving (with my daughter in the car) at speeds of a MASSIVE 40kph I got pulled over (a common occurrence) after the old pop of the bonnet , click of the camera I now have a EPA referral :-( . He says my exhaust is too loud which I wont argue till I have facts , my front mount needs to be emissions tested and my pod filter which is under a enclosed aluminum housing (his argument is the bottom is not enclosed . Has any one had to have a EPA test for any of these 3 things ? My problem is I don't have any stock parts to change over and I imagine the wouldn't be cheap . I'm going to see what my options are regarding the dealer I bought it from because it "passed" a blue slip fitted with these things , the cop said I can write to the EPA and have them hunt down the dealer ?

[Humbla]

bad luck there,we are all driving our liners with a fair amount of mods.So far in nearly 10 years of having a 33 i have never had pop the bonnet please,i guess being an old girl helps.I hope you get it sorted asap.Genelle.

[leer34]

theres a couple of threads relating to people having these problems...its a major pain in the ass..i had a similar thing happen to me...you dont want to go for an emmisions test coz it is pretty hard to pass...you will not pass with a stock exhaust..

.best option (which i ended up having to do in the end) is just just buy/ borrow or steal standard side mount, airbox and exhaust..swap em over, go to the inspection station get it cleared and it will be sweet, its a lot of mucking around considering 99% of people will just swap it back anyway

good luck

[Dahtone Racing]

yep easiest way is to just make it look stock go get the inspection done at campbelltown and be done with it

[SNIFLS]

Sounds easy but where to get a lend even rent of the parts needed ?

[Dahtone Racing]

i know of some for sale

if you're interested PM me

[SpeedWhore]

i have the stock intercooler for the r33 at home if u wanna borrow it

[Humbla]

  On 28/02/2011 at 2:55 AM, SpeedWhore said:

i have the stock intercooler for the r33 at home if u wanna borrow it

Nice guy.

[SNIFLS]

  On 28/02/2011 at 2:55 AM, SpeedWhore said:

i have the stock intercooler for the r33 at home if u wanna borrow it

Thanks alot mate I appreciate the offer :-) hopefully I won't need it but il keep you in mind just incase

[sydking]

i got EPA for noise, your car will NEED to be at or under 90 DB at 4,700 RPM. i went to the bloke at granville, he was a knob and failed me first time due the the silencer in my cannon not being fully welded and "part" of the exhaust. i came in at 90 db.

Metal flange piece and steel wool stuffed behind the cat. ive still got it if you need to borrow pm me it might fit.

[SNIFLS]

  On 28/02/2011 at 6:41 AM, sydking said:

i got EPA for noise, your car will NEED to be at or under 90 DB at 4,700 RPM. i went to the bloke at granville, he was a knob and failed me first time due the the silencer in my cannon not being fully welded and "part" of the exhaust. i came in at 90 db.

Metal flange piece and steel wool stuffed behind the cat. ive still got it if you need to borrow pm me it might fit.

Mate thanks alot if it gets that far il get intouch hopefully it doesn't

[Dahtone Racing]

you need the stock nissan cat too

[Aleckr33]

I went through this. If i got an EPA referral again, i would part out my car and sell it. No way im doing it again.

[Dahtone Racing]

Its not that hard dude

as long as you have a low mount turbo its easy to make it look stock and pass first go.

[Aleckr33]

True, at least i know what to do now if i do get done again

At the time i got done, i had little money because of job issues and the missus had to help me out to buy all the stock parts, with 2 weeks to get all parts, installed and go for inspection....... I was really up sh*t creek. Makes me sick thinking about it actually.

[Hiroshima Screamer]

Tuff break ive had it happened to me a few times in the past and its getting ever more hard to get these cars past without going through the headaches

of finding the standard parts to go back to luckily for me no emissions.i dont think i would of past with a power fc been told once tuned your car will

produce higher amounts of pollution resulting in failed inspection?

[Obe]

i have the following if you need it.

Stock airbox + snorkel.

Stock dump pipe (no stock cat back sadly).

Stock Cat.

Stock SMIC with all hoses / piping needed to fit it.

Can also help fit it all if your not familiar with that kind of stuff.

PM me anytime

[Beer Baron]

I have a question, where were you driving when you got defected? I must be out of the loop but I've owned more than 10 skylines in the last 10 years and never been defected once. the closest I came was getting pulled over by highway patrol in a silvia I had just bought. it was heavily modifed, it started life as a CA non turbo auto, but was no SR20, manual, turbo, with trust turbo, stainless mani, nismo 2way LSD, twin plate clutch, 5 stud conversion, full uras kit, coil-overs etc etc. lots of mods. he said mate either get it engineered or take it off the road and make it a race car. he said "my advice is do the second option as it'll never pass rego". he let me off though with just that advice as I had only recently bought it.

[SNIFLS]

  On 10/03/2011 at 9:36 PM, Obe said:

i have the following if you need it.

Stock airbox + snorkel.

Stock dump pipe (no stock cat back sadly).

Stock Cat.

Stock SMIC with all hoses / piping needed to fit it.

Mate you are an absolute legend thanks il get the date of my inspection and msg you thanks again

Can also help fit it all if your not familiar with that kind of stuff.

PM me anytime

[Obe]

  SNIFLS said:

Mate you are an absolute legend thanks il get the date of my inspection and msg you thanks again

No worries.

Just throw us a PM on here or a txt on 0403 273 338.

i live on the central coast but work in north ryde so weekend is easier but can work something out