Good job brother! I know it’s a great feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction when it all comes together. One question...is the last photo inverted or is your exhaust really on the driver’s side?

 

Keyless keypad and steering wheel appear to be on the correct side, and 4x4 sticker is right…so exhaust must be on that side?

 

I need resolution or I may not sleep tonight...

 

LMAO!!! It is split tail pipes after the muffler. It throws guys off all the time. B.

 

Whew! I can get some decent rest now...thanks!

 

No sweat dude anytime. B.

 

Well, she PASSED her smog inspection this afternoon!!!! I bought a PCM with all factory tuning and installed it on Tuesday. Drove the heck out of her the last few days to get the PCM ready for testing. You know they have to go through a certain amount of start stop heat up cold down cycles before they show ready for emissions testing. Anyway took her to the shop today and she passed no problem.

The new PCM with factory programming works just fine with the 155/stock injectors, the Colt Stage 2 cam, factory turbo and 4" turbo back exhaust system. Everything else is stock. Catalytic converter is intact and functioning (Yes, for real). The smog shop tried to bate me into saying something else by stating the way they do the diesel testing there is no way for them to know if a converter has been punched out. I just gave the guy a cold stare and told him everything is in tact. Which it is. He asked if it was chipped, because they did not detect one. Which it obviously is not if it has a PCM with all factory programming. I told him no it's not chipped either.

The factory programing runs just fine. But, she does let out a little puff of black smoke pulling away from a stop sign or signal light. And I can tell my fuel mileage has dropped like a rock in a lake. I think if a guy were running larger nozzle sizes, it may smoke too much to pass the visual part of the emissions testing. Which includes three snaps of the throttle to observe the exhaust. They told me if the tail pipe has a smoke snake longer than ten feet or continues to smoke after so many seconds of acceleration, it will fail the visual.

EGT's never got above 1080f pulling some of the steeper grades to Jackson. And coolant pressure never got higher than 12PSI. And would be back down to 10 PSI by the time I made it down the other side of a hill. So far so good. B.

 

Good news, but I am so happy I live in a state that doesn’t make me do this…

 

Be glad you don't live in Germany. Here, vehicles have to undergo an expensive technical inspection every 2 years, heavy vehicles every year. Thereby the engine is beaten WITHOUT LOAD up to the limit engine speed (6.0s : 4250 rpms).
If the machine is damaged while testing, you get only the current value replaced (so a pocket money). The risk lies with the vehicle owner.
A madness.