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Originally Posted by nj85z28
Just to clarify a few things here, my SS monte just passed inspection a few weeks ago. the car had originally failed for dry rotted tires and the oil gauge wasnt working. therefore they could not run me on the dyno. emissions failed by default.
then i took it back after a little bit, with some new rubber and a fresh sending unit. the guy asked me 2 questions-
did you get new tires? yes sir.
did you fix the oil light? yes sir.
then looks at my papers, and says-
this is a v8?
Yep.
Ok then.
they never popped the hood or anything. went through all the motions of the reinspect, and i had a reverse light out and a liscence plate light out as well. the car has a TPI engine it with headers, a rust hole the size of a silver dollar and bla blah blah.
Passed no problem
Just take care of the little BS like turn signals, brake lights and headlights, the horn is an easy fix, just get one of those momentary contact switches. its like a 5 dollar fix.
My point is this- dont worry about the headache of emissions until you have to. Just take care of the silly stuff and maybe you will get lucky.
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You got lucky as crap that they never ran a real emission's test. I think you're required to carry the emission's test results in the car with you so if you never got a printout showing the emission's you could still get nabbed in a roadside check. Once you fail for emission's, you are supposed to show receipts for the work done to the car to get it to pass. It could be as simple as a garage "adjusted carb" or "adjusted timing" but they want proof something was done. Check engine light will throw up flags no matter what year so get that turned off. You can get it to pass emission's with some adjustments to the timing and carb. I had an old 68 SS396 conv that was built up big time and my cousin's husband worked at a garage and helped me tweak it to pass the tailpipe test and gave me a legit sticker. As soon as it passed, I readjusted the carb and timing because it would stall out constantly. Another thing with the carb cars, you can raise the idle up to a certain amount and that helps burn off emission's as well. Got to the dmv website and read up on the details to see what you need to do.
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