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Originally Posted by Bdorion1
It did pass inspection only a week ago. I was curious if the guy at the shop would say anything about the missing muffler/ ecomods I've done but apparently he was too busy to ask, or had seen so many strange things on peoples cars he just didn't care. The "cat still hanging in there" was probably my saving grace as it allowed me to pass emissions. (That phrase conjures up images of a haggard feline clinging desperately to the underside of my car. Ha)
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And you say you are in NY state? You are obviously not in the downstate area or maybe you "bought a sticker".
Last year one of my very much older cars (a 1988) had a small rust hole in the tail pipe (not the muffler). They refused to inspect it saying the emissions test might not read accurately. I promptly cut and clamped on a new tailpipe to get them off my back.
Since then (just this year) the old dyno test was scrapped (because the testing machines were absurdly complex, hard to maintain, constantly breaking down, and besides, nobody has a 20+ year old car anymore except me), so now my car passes inspection
without any emissions test at all! Maybe yours did the same.
Or, if you live in rural upstate, there isn't any emissions test there, anyway.
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As much as I like DIY, I am a 21 year old still in college so the welding/ metalworking/ garage thing is beyond my current ability (unfortunately).
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As predicted, apparently your whole exhaust system is like swiss cheese. Basically you only need some replacement pipe and/or muffler bandage, simple hand tools, safety goggles to keep the rust bits out of your eyes and the willingness to crawl under the car and get dirty to repair the exhaust system. Have you ever had a front exhaust pipe break off? Mine did on my very first car when I was 21, but at least I repaired it - because a 5 liter, American engine in a car weighing over two tons without any exhaust at all is deafening - it sounds like a plane taking off...
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Now as to why I am such a cheap SOB...
Possibly the largest motivator to fix the muffler was my girlfriend who says the noise bothers her. Maybe I'll point her to the dollar store cotton balls ^_^
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Yes, you are exactly that which you described yourself. It's only a matter of time until she wakes up, realizes it and dumps you.
Or you could try patching up your exhaust, before you both end up having monoxide poisoning in addition to unrequited love...