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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 12:30 AM
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Cat UNdelete??

Just installed a 4" ,no cat, exhaust on my truck and decided to look up the emissions laws in Boise where I have to get an annual emissions test. (yes, even diesels)
Here's what the official web site says. "Motor vehicles of the model years 1984 and newer are to be inspected for the presence of the catalytic converter. . ."

So, I'll keep my old cat around but how do I put it back in when I need it? Adapters? Guess I could make some. I can weld.

I've seen/heard plenty of diesels in Boise that are running straight pipes. Even seen some in California. How do the get away with it or around it?
 

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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 01:04 AM
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In california, if you have a diesel, you can run a stright pipe right through the top of your hood and nobody is going to do a damn thing.

There is no visual inspection and no smog test of diesels here in the peoples republic of CA.

WR
 
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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 03:14 AM
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cheater it, you would not be the first person to install a straight pipe through the CAT after gutting it and then installing the cat back in the same place it was before
 
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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 06:36 PM
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Thought of that but if I'm running a gutted cat it'll probably fail the stupid test anyway.
Since when is Idaho more strict on environmental concerns than California? Good grief.
 
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Old Mar 29, 2007 | 06:41 PM
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Yeah, whats up with that, I didn't realize Idaho was going that way, I am originally from weiser and the reason why we have traffic in Idaho is all the Californians moving in any way, Nice people just getting crowded. they even started moving the bathrooms indoors....whats up with that?
 
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