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viCeVerSa
03-23-2003, 11:52 AM
where do you guys go? or what do you do to "pass" the car? i know it will pass smog , but i dont think it will pass visual.... so whats the deal??
theFlowMasta
03-23-2003, 09:24 PM
if your looking to pass the visual test, if i were u i would either paint or cover anyting that stands out, like BOV's, cuz some are either purple or Silver or sumthing, just try to make your enigne look like no one has touched it, or mod it, anyhitng that attractes your eyes is a bad in viusal. hope that helps u a bit.
Rogue
03-24-2003, 06:49 AM
--- Money talks.
DuffMan
03-24-2003, 07:25 AM
Tape a $100 to your valve cover.
Steeles
03-24-2003, 08:09 AM
if you have to ask the swaps not for you
PROJECT240SX
03-24-2003, 03:20 PM
Sneeze and throw a $100.00 bill onto his clipboard.:D
Dousan_PG
03-24-2003, 03:21 PM
Originally posted by Steeles
if you have to ask the swaps not for you


exactly. be sure your 'people who know people' before taking the risk.
syco3d
03-24-2003, 03:22 PM
Originally posted by DuffMan
Tape a $100 to your valve cover.

ROFL!!!

Hmm...just move to Kansas...no inspections here.
MAXATX
03-25-2003, 10:49 AM
Well one of my friends took his engine (SR blacktop) to one of the Texaco inpection places, and he just told them it was a heavily modded KA, but that it was all legal modifications. They passed him, cause he made sure he had his cat, and his car wasn't too low, and all his lights worked.
The other thing I would suggest is to go right before closing, or when its really busy, so they kinda gloss over everything. I've heard that a $100 does wonders too :D
Steeles
03-25-2003, 10:57 AM
even though my county in NC dosent do visual or even sniffer tests in inspections the guy asked me about my engine.

inspector "thats not the original engine is it?"
me "nope"
inspector "bigger?"
me "smaller, went from the 2.4 to a 2.0"
inspector "really? whats it out of, I mean was it sold over here?"
me "yeah its a modified sentra SE-R engine with a turbo kit"
inspector "really? huh... pretty fast?"
me "yeah shes pretty quick still got some work to do on it, I gotta roll you done?"
inspector "cool sorry yeah Im done have a good one"
me "yep"
[P.C.R]Gwai Lo
03-25-2003, 11:15 AM
That sounds like a pretty sweet deal

It would really suck if you had a car enthusiast doin the inspection
Rogue
03-25-2003, 12:05 PM
I think if a car enthusiast did it then he would pass you.
jsr20det
03-25-2003, 12:18 PM
Originally posted by Steeles
even though my county in NC dosent do visual or even sniffer tests in inspections the guy asked me about my engine.

inspector "thats not the original engine is it?"
me "nope"
inspector "bigger?"
me "smaller, went from the 2.4 to a 2.0"
inspector "really? whats it out of, I mean was it sold over here?"
me "yeah its a modified sentra SE-R engine with a turbo kit"
inspector "really? huh... pretty fast?"
me "yeah shes pretty quick still got some work to do on it, I gotta roll you done?"
inspector "cool sorry yeah Im done have a good one"
me "yep"

was my idea. :D
Steeles
03-25-2003, 12:57 PM
Originally posted by jsr20det
was my idea. :D

hahah no it wasnt it was mine! I used it last april!.. no wait... the car was in the shop last april lol... umm it was like June cause my inspection was like 4 months overdue at the time... crap its due next month!
viCeVerSa
03-25-2003, 02:49 PM
where in NC ? im in guilford county and im pretty sure i have both
andrave
03-25-2003, 02:58 PM
it depends, a lot of visual inspection guys don't know what a "ka24de" looks like, but bet your ass they will recognize the turbo.
I'd say your best bet is to tell them up front that its a turbocharged car, but act like its the stock engine.
Most of the people I know that get swaps inspected, like me, "know people."
justeno_heat
03-27-2003, 08:12 PM
Well if you live if hick town in Denver, PA if you go to any inspection garage they all think it is just any weak 4- cylinder. All they know is big stupid V8's. They don't know anything about japanese things.
Warwick5s
03-28-2003, 01:53 AM
if you did an SR swap that was, for all intents and purposes, stock - meaning you had the OEM intake, exhaust, everything - then i don't think it would be that hard to just play dumb and pretend like it's stock. once you start throwing big intercoolers, BOV's, headers and shiny stuff under the hood is when i think you'll encounter the problem.


the SR20DE idea is also quite nice. they sell CARB legal turbo kits for that, right? if so...they'd have to check the engine stamp to tell the difference.



...thankfully around here, if i do any kind of swap, no one gives a damn ;)
Steeles
03-28-2003, 08:26 AM
Originally posted by viCeVerSa
where in NC ? im in guilford county and im pretty sure i have both

You definately have the sniffer then (i'm in Alamance but work in Guilford howdy neighbor!) , not 100% sure about the visual. but keep the heat sheid over the turbo and tell um its a turbo kit on the stock engine if they ask. find some old hick with a bunch of domestics and such in the lot to do it he wont know what he's looking at... or I may know people :D
Steeles
03-28-2003, 08:30 AM
Originally posted by Warwick5s
if you did an SR swap that was, for all intents and purposes, stock - meaning you had the OEM intake, exhaust, everything - then i don't think it would be that hard to just play dumb and pretend like it's stock. once you start throwing big intercoolers, BOV's, headers and shiny stuff under the hood is when i think you'll encounter the problem.


the SR20DE idea is also quite nice. they sell CARB legal turbo kits for that, right? if so...they'd have to check the engine stamp to tell the difference.



...thankfully around here, if i do any kind of swap, no one gives a damn ;)

why would you have A HEADER on a turbo car? :D (just busting your chops man)

I dunno if they have CARB legal kits for the SR20DE or not. but yeah its a car and engine code they would recognize.

man I luv your avatar! thats a classic