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Nov 11, 2013 | 09:55 PM

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7995fordguy

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Love the DP tuner, excellent customer service. The main problem was that the truck was a federal truck and met federal emissions but not California emissions. All good now

Nov 11, 2013 | 10:13 PM

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RallyMedik

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That shouldn't have been an issue. The smoke was the issue..why was it so bad??

Nov 11, 2013 | 10:45 PM

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7995fordguy

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When you rev up a powerstroke your going to get a small amount of smoke, well in California it all depends on the tester. But with no smoke at all that can't bitch

Nov 11, 2013 | 11:01 PM

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Stewart_H

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Originally Posted by RallyMedik

I have a Stacked chip and have no issues with smoke and smog-ed just fine.

Not sure what setup you have, but in the sense of "stacking chips" that can't be done on a 7.3L PSD.

Stewart

Nov 11, 2013 | 11:46 PM

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RallyMedik

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I have a Chip and a Tuner..wrong choice of words.

Nov 11, 2013 | 11:59 PM

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Stewart_H

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Yeah, whatever tune is on the chip will override any tune (factory or custom flash) that is on the PCM, when the chip is installed on the PCM.

Stewart

Nov 12, 2013 | 12:40 PM

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0373F250

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IF you dont have a cat and the sticker to prove it under the hood you don't have to go through the snap test… I literally just smogged my 03 yesterday I was nervous because it has a tune on it, and a k&N intake but I do have the CARB sticker I was sure it was gonna fail but the tech said it doesn't have a cat and all he had to do was visual check and obdII for codes and no snap test go to a place that knows how to test diesels a lot of these places don't know what they are doing.

Nov 12, 2013 | 10:56 PM

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Stewart_H

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 0373F250

IF you dont have a cat and the sticker to prove it under the hood you don't have to go through the snap test…

Yes you do, if you're in California.

If a person is trying to smog a diesel truck in California, then yes, they DO have to do the snap test. Whether or not the tech follows the law, is up to them, but a snap test with three quick snaps is mandated by state law.

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Originally Posted by 0373F250

...but the tech said it doesn't have a cat and all he had to do was visual check and obdII for codes and no snap test....a lot of these places don't know what they are doing.

If you're in California, then the place you just got your rig smogged at is one of those places you just described, because they don't know what they're doing if the tech told you that garbage about no snap test needed.

Stewart

Last edited by Stewart_H; Nov 12, 2013 at 11:02 PM.

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Nov 12, 2013 | 10:58 PM

#69

A/Ox4

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From: Missouri

Stewart is right, and your tech is wrong.

Snap tests are required with or without a cat or sticker.

Im not even going to touch the K&N intake thing. Someone else will be sure to.
Just know, that all intakes are CARB legal. End of story.

Nov 15, 2013 | 05:00 AM

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hydro man 17

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I had my truck smogged recently and I don't think that they did a snap test but I can't swear to it. But that being said I was only there for less than 10 minutes and there were three other people in front of me, barely had time to get through the first couple of pages in a magazine.