Tomorrrow the SC gets inspected.
 

pros:
The station doing it would pass a Kim Jong nuclear warhead as "pass"

cons:
I still have to go out and do it...
And the teenager who drives the SC into the garage has no earthly idea how to do it, so he drops the clutch, and then let's me drive it out to save face.

and the PO wired the h4's without a relay so "high beams" vs. "low beams" are a relative term.

Be... ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEATS AS LEAKY GOES LIVE AND RECORDS THIS EVENT!!!!

WATCH... IN HORROR AS A 17 Y.O. TORCHES THE 915 TRANNY!!!

WAIT... IN ANTICIPATION... FOR THE YEARLY STICKER....

This will cost me something like 12 bucks. The suspense... Priceless!!!! :D

this will all go down 6:30 a.m. e.s.t. btw.......

I'm old enough to remember when Florida required these....what a freaking hassle!

Biggest bugaboo for me was always the suspension test. :(

LOL. On my SC I had SSI heat exchangers and a "dummy" O2 sensor wired to nowhere. Every 2 years in Colorado when I needed inspection I would tell the State inspector guy the heat exchangers were cats and they always believed me.

Dang thing would pass with flying colors...the HC and CO numbers were remarkably low with no cat and no O2 sensor on the stock CIS injection system per the reports every time. Passed with flying colors way below the max numbers. Amazing.

Ran mine through Oregon DEQ last week. Was expecting having to go through 3-4 times like the last two times. Passed first try with good CO numbers. Must be broken...

I have to convince the guy to slip the clutch. I have an aluminum flywheel, he will sit there and stall it over and over again...

"It's OK, slip the clutch, it's once a year, it will be fine, it'll survive"

Historic Vehicle plates.

I know not of what you speak with this inspection nonsense.

I put 9000 miles a year on my car. I cannot, legally, run historic plates ;)

In return for enjoying 9000 miles a year of my air cooled goodness, I will give up 10 minutes and one slipped clutch for an inspection ;)

Living in CA with a post-1975 car, I get to smog it every 2 years for the rest of my life or the car's life, whichever comes first.

I dread inspection time. Most places I go to, let me drive my 993 in, do the lights test, then talk for 1/2 hour about cars. They peak thru my wheels with a flashlight for brake pads.... all is good!!

What is this "inspection" you speak of?

I have not inspected my sc since 2011. It's my own little social protest . It fails the visual, so I just run it naked . The fine is only $100.00

You can just register it as an antique in PA, which has no emissions inspection.

Yup, that is why when I moved back I sold my 75+ cars. Kept older, rebought newer. ODB2 plug in, readout, in and out in a few minutes... I could not bear the idea of doing this with the SC every 2 years.

and I shake my head everytime I pass a landscaping pickup truck full of mowers blowing so much smoke I cannot breathe... How on earth do THEY pass ? Different standards I guess...

Well.... The car passed with flying colors. meh...

I recorded the kid who went out and drove it into the garage. The video was so boring I erased it. The sun had not risen, and the interior lights don't work, so it took him a full minute to figure out the key was on the left. He never stalled. He drove it in like a champ and they slapped a sticker on as they always do. We don't have emissions in this part of the state, but it's good to hear that the SC would possibly pass without the cat, cause I don't have one.

It's always fun to hear your porsche running in the shop while waiting in the candy/food isle of the gas station. Gosh it sounded good.

Funny thing was when I went to get it out of the garage. They always tell me to walk through the garage to back it out. That sign about "customers not permitted in work area due to legal reasons" is not there. They missed that bulletin. You have to weave in/under a bunch of engine hoist and transmissions dangling in the air. Stuff is so close, you worry about brushing up against something and getting grease on you, or knocking something over. So I got to the car, backed it out, and the kid was waiting in the parking lot for me to vamoose with his next car to inspect- a Old Ford pickup.

As I pulled away, he tried to move the truck in and stalled it instead. Driving home the sun finally began to rise casting a pink hue over a deep blue morning sky. Pic doesn't do justice.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1507229615.JPG

Going to need a shop like that down there. Aftermarket turbo, no cats. I'll probs do the historic plates thing now that I'm retired, but I think I need to get it inspected once to title it down there...

60.00 for a sticker here now. All computerized.....info, including pictures, go straight, via internet, to the state (DMV I guess). If failed pictures of the violation are sent and in order to get a sticker pictures of the repair must be sent.
Sucks. A lot of places that used to inspect said F you and refuse to do them now.

I know a place (cheap gas prices too) :)

Been many years since MN required it, ours were state stations and you manned your own vehicle- always a kick to watch them slip the mirror cart under the middle of the car looking for a cat... "motors in the back."

Those exchangers are so massive that they just figured they were cats. Mine always blew low numbers even without the air pump.

Same here. I dread taking my 993 in for smog testing, it has to go on the rolling road while they put a sniffer in the tailpipe. Last time I stood by as the gal stalled the car three or four times trying to get the car rolling. Ugh...