Victorofhavoc
Senior Member
- First Name
- Gordan
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2024
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- Kansas City
- Car(s)
- Integra type s
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- #16
Optronix is spot on. Unless it's carb compliant you won't pass a sniff test (or have the legal recourse that you should). HFC, you definitely won't pass visual or sniff.not familiar with tunes here - what's emissions compliant mean?
Like, someone from me in Cali can take this to get smogged and it'll be fine?
Hondata/Phearable tunes - won't I pass smog with those based on the OBD read and sniff test?
If it was really easy to pump the boost, increase timing (aka lengthen the time of the piston compressing before the spark plug creates a spark, but before the gasoline is so far compressed that it combust on its own), AND keep emissions to the same level required to meet the epa emissions requirements, Honda would already have done it.
They have to account for the fact that most people will inadvertently put in low quality fuel, may live in a super cold or super hot climate, and that the average person doesn't really maintain their car the way they should... So that leads to creating margins for safety that others are willing to push a bit further.
Even if you choose not to tune for power, there are a few other benefits to the accessport. Data collection becomes really easy, flat foot shifting can be enabled, their traction control is a bit faster and superior, possibly reduction in rev hang (not on this so would require confirmation because rev hang is an emissions control), and a valet mode in case you drop your car off with the teenager at the restaurant or the dodos at the dealer who use your car to learn how to drive a manual.
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