If you bring it in for an I/M Inspection you will fail the VISUAL INSPECTION and the Tailpipe Emission Inspection portion of the inspection will NOT take place.
If you are sneaky enough to hide it to pass the visual inspection (trust me on this one, it's HARD!!! And I know of ways to do it too!), the OBDII test will reveal loads about the sensors. If you are good enough to sneak past that one (Again, I know how...) then, the final test will be the actual 5-gas analysis of the tailpipe emissions. The 5-gas test will be the tell-all.
If you manage to pass the 5-gas, Visual and OBDII Hook-up then you get a "Clean Bill of Health" and the green sticker in the windshield the paper for the jockey-box and a $69 fee to pay.
Now I don't have time to explain all the ways to put in a booster on a 2008 rig and pass an inspection, but I can tell you that it CAN be done.
There are areas of the car that the inspector will NOT look at. There are areas that the inspector cannot see for installing the hose for the hydrogen to the engine. There are ways to 'satisfy' the sensor conditions for the computer and really have something else happening with the engine. The tailpipe Gas Test is the Tell-All.
In the Cert-Test you are given a set of 5 gasses. Two are in PPM, another three in Percentages, and by looking at only those 5 numbers, and no other data given, you have to tell one of the following to be true:
Rich Fuel
Lean Fuel
Low Engine Compression
Stuck Injector
EGR Failure
Plugged Catalyst
Plugged Air Filter
Plugged Fuel Filter
Fouled Spark Plugs
One bank Lean or Rich
Cracked Spark Plugs
Bad Ignition Wires
Bad Cap or Rotor or Both
Wet Plugs
High Water Content in Fuel (liquid Water)
Spark Plug releasing pressure (temperature-caused Leakage)
Plugged Breather
Plugged PCV Valve
Oil saturated in Fuel
Vacuum Leak
Vacuum leak and running Rich
Severely worn plugs
Bad Rings
Stuck Valve
Bad Ignition Coil
Intermittent Spark (Bad Coil Module/Points)
Plugged High Speed Jet on the Carburetor
Sticky Injector
Leaky Injector
EVAP Failure
Charcoal Canister Failure (many ways for this to occur)
Bad Alternator (spark and fuel issues pop up quick!)
TPS Failure
AIT Failure
WTS Failure
Over-cooling by radiator
Under-cooling by radiator
Crack in Exhaust manifold (unseen by the visual check)
Smog Pump operation
Smog Pump Check Valves (Pass/Fail)
Pulse-Air Injection Operation
O2 Sensor function/lack thereof
Brake Booster Failure
Worn Timing Chain
Mass AIR Flow Sensor Operation
Etc...Etc....
and a whole slew of other engine conditions can ALL be diagnosed by looking at the output of a SINGLE 5-GAS Analysis chart, and a person MUST be able to do this to become certified. This is part of the 99% test failure rate.
So knowing HOW to get a booster into a vehicle and HOW to satisfy the computer requirement AND pass the 5-gas test is something you should look into.
It's all available information in books. Hard Copy, made from paper....like Dead Trees....
AlaskaStarStatistics: Posted by AlaskaStar — Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:03 am
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