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SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
DPFE - Ford's most evil spawn to date *rant and advice for my SVT mengs*
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<blockquote data-quote="thomas91169" data-source="post: 13417142" data-attributes="member: 40530"><p>Yup, as of Jan 1st it will be scan test + visual only for cars 1995 (or 2000, I forget which) and newer. Older than that, you would have to pass the sniffer.</p><p></p><p>Dont expect the cost to drop, my buddy owns a smog shop and says while its $35-45 now itll only drop $10 even though the tech is doing 75% less labor by only having to do a port scan + visual.</p><p></p><p>Since catalytics did not come about until the 60's-70's I wouldnt worry too much about pre-cat cars, especially since they do not have any data/limits to hold you accountable to meet (IE no max hc/c02/etc). </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is bullshit. The state/carb/etc does not own any such items. </p><p></p><p>And we looked up actually doing this, a "mobile smog station that comes to you" when your car needs smog for people that work crazy hours and dont have time to take their car to smog (like mobile detail or mobile oil change people) but holy ****, we first would need to build such a rig, and then go through tons of red tape to get that business approved as a legit smog station. They dont like the fact the business has no physical address to know where to send the undercover agents to to verify the techs are doing their jobs correctly.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The tech was technically doing his job. Yours isnt. Your buddy should know before hand to spend the 5-10 minutes throwing the stock intake back on and not have to get denied and have to find another shop or have to do the swap anyways an hour later and come back. Pretty simple.</p><p></p><p>Smog techs get paid very well, low to mid $20/hr for not much schooling required. The fine for passing a car like his had he been an undercover agent, is huge, not only for him, but the owners of the shop. Its not worth it, my buddy will not touch modded cars either. He even had me put my Spyder back to stock as much as possible. If he gets popped, he gets his smog license revoked, gets fined, shop gets fined, shop can potentially lose their STAR rating as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thomas91169, post: 13417142, member: 40530"] Yup, as of Jan 1st it will be scan test + visual only for cars 1995 (or 2000, I forget which) and newer. Older than that, you would have to pass the sniffer. Dont expect the cost to drop, my buddy owns a smog shop and says while its $35-45 now itll only drop $10 even though the tech is doing 75% less labor by only having to do a port scan + visual. Since catalytics did not come about until the 60's-70's I wouldnt worry too much about pre-cat cars, especially since they do not have any data/limits to hold you accountable to meet (IE no max hc/c02/etc). This is bullshit. The state/carb/etc does not own any such items. And we looked up actually doing this, a "mobile smog station that comes to you" when your car needs smog for people that work crazy hours and dont have time to take their car to smog (like mobile detail or mobile oil change people) but holy ****, we first would need to build such a rig, and then go through tons of red tape to get that business approved as a legit smog station. They dont like the fact the business has no physical address to know where to send the undercover agents to to verify the techs are doing their jobs correctly. The tech was technically doing his job. Yours isnt. Your buddy should know before hand to spend the 5-10 minutes throwing the stock intake back on and not have to get denied and have to find another shop or have to do the swap anyways an hour later and come back. Pretty simple. Smog techs get paid very well, low to mid $20/hr for not much schooling required. The fine for passing a car like his had he been an undercover agent, is huge, not only for him, but the owners of the shop. Its not worth it, my buddy will not touch modded cars either. He even had me put my Spyder back to stock as much as possible. If he gets popped, he gets his smog license revoked, gets fined, shop gets fined, shop can potentially lose their STAR rating as well. [/QUOTE]
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