[Christ]

Originally Posted by mwebb

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- Yes, it's very possible to tune a vehicle to reach emissions standards without the use of a catalytic converter,

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which standards ?
if you are speaking of current OBD2 standards

then
the statement above is not true - not even a little .
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regarding a cat converter heater
many cars have it , it is called
secondary air injection

We don't have emissions inspection around here, but I was referring to current tail pipe emissions standards. Nothing to do with visual testing. Around here (and in many other places) it's very easy to replace the cat with a lesser (hollow) version of itself and still pass emissions testing, including the visual portion.