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I have DECAT+Arqray since day one=won't pass smog.
Will have to put stock cat + OEM exhaust on.
HOWEVER, diffuser doesn't have hole for OEM exhaust
QUESTION: You think techs will give me a hard time with no diffuser and naked rear?
DUE TO LACK OF TIME: entertaining taking the car to shop to switch exahust and do smog. Quotes are $200 + smog fees. Sounds high for a few minute exhaust bolt and unbolt.
You can test it with no clam for all that matter. Body panels have absolutely no effect on smog test results.
Just make sure your Cat is on and your 02 sensors are there too. What exhaust you have does not matter at all, as long as its after the cat.
Make sure you are stock in terms of other emission components. (evap must be there, intake must be the stock one bc we don't have a carb legal one except the hks i think)
Make sure you have no check engine light
If you turn off the check engine light you should drive it 50-100 miles for the computer to relearn itself.
It may be tough with the sport cat, but possible. I got mine to pass with a Katanna and a sport cat but had to put in the original tiny injectors. Barely passed, but got it.
Your second oxygen sensor should be fine if it was in the exhaust stream. Long time exposure to the elements (if it was just left hanging in the rain), and using leaded fuel (and some of the aftermarket octane boosters in your fuel) is what is known to kill the sensor which was connected up post-cat.
Lotuscupcar, are you still non-op or did you get smogged? My smog is due this Thursday. I'm having a hard time even getting a place to pretest my car. The shops say they can't do it, don't know how to do it (never tested a lotus before), and/or that I need to go to the dealer to get smogged!
Lotuscupcar, are you still non-op or did you get slogged? My smog is due this Thursday. I'm having a hard time even getting a place to pretest my car. The shops say they can't do it, don't know how to do it (never tested a lotus before), and/or that I need to go to the dealer to get smogged!
He's not having trouble getting his car smogged. He's having trouble finding a station to run an unofficial test because his car is not stock and he wants to know if it will pass as is.
I'm definitely not in the same boat as you other guys (I only have a Stage 2 on it with an O2 sensor giving me a sporatic problem) but I just got my car smogged at a place a couple miles from my house. It's a one man smog shop that I take all of my cars to. The older guy running the place said it was the second Lotus that he's smogged in 23 years. He said the first was a red Elan ... a long time ago. Of course mine passed ...and he thanked me for letting him smog it and said he enjoyed it.
Smogged mine in July, just a factory stage2 exhaust on it. Smog tech had no idea what he was looking at but he did visually verify that i had a cat and gas cap and ran the test as normal. No issues stock and any smog guy you trust can run it as all obd cars run the same method. I also have received the recall notice for the vin reflash and either mine is good or the smog guy didn't catch it.
So $400 bucks Nick? Been over at the hospital a bunch, don't see you the benz or the elise.. (though I thnik of your car as Johns Elise, since I have such a history with that car and have known it so many years, and my parts are on your car )
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