Oregon DEQ

[BayBoss]

Has anyone been caught without cats at the DEQ? I need to get new tags but have no cats.

Never mind they didn't check if I had cats and even complimented me on the sound.

 

[yello05]

when they looked with a mirror on my focus they were checking right in front of the rear wheels. My cat is on the front of the engine. Idiots. Luckily

 

[Bullitt347]

When you pay someone maybe 10-12 bucks an hr. you do not exactly get the sharpest tools in the shed doing the work.

 

[HaynStang]

How did you guys manage to pass DEQ without cats?

Though I'm not driving it this winter, I took my stang through DEQ a while back when the reg. was about to expire, almost passed but not quite, too many hydrocarbons I think...

I guess welding some cats in will be a spring project. I'm all for being earth friendly... but damn those things have gotten expensive in the past couple years. It's like $175-200 for a pair of the high flows now.

 

[yello05]

1996+ they just scan it and give it a visual (but dont know what they are looking at anyway LOL)

Pre-96 you will need cats or some good tuning to get it to pass. I have heard rumors of people passing without cats, but its not easy.

Keep in mind the high flows are usually crap, best is to find someone with a stock cat pipe and swap it in, pass, and back out. There is a reason there were 4 cats in the stock sets.

 

[wythors]

Keep in mind the high flows are usually crap, best is to find someone with a stock cat pipe and swap it in, pass, and back out. There is a reason there were 4 cats in the stock sets.

After I did my H/C/I and installed my Bassani catted X my LX passed the sniffer cleaner than when it was new.

 

[yello05]

Bassani are one of the few that I would recommend