Ok so i am building up my 96 cavalier z24 and due to recent events i will be moving to texas in a few months. i was just wondering if anyone have an idea on do's and dont's with the car now that i am moving to a differant state. Any help anyone could give would be great. thank you.
Well im in the precess of rebuilding the motor and putting forged internals in it. so nothing in the car will be differant. is there anything else i should be worried about because i know they have state inspections.
what part of texas are you moving to man?
I NEED a 97-99 LD9 engine harness for an auto.PM if u hav info.!!
Ya, what part of texas. Most of texas does not have an e-test. I can tell you San Antonio, EL Paso, Corpus Christi, Laredo, McAllen, Austin dont have an e-tes. Not sure on Dallas-Fort Worth Area and Houston. I have lived in some of these area years ago and they didnt have e-test.
i will be moving to the garland. which if i am correct it is about 40 min from DFW.
garland is pretty much dfw. thats cool when you get down get ahold of the texas j's we are always looking for new members
I live in SA....we DONT have an E-test.....yet
yup we got them some of us know were to get them even if your car is not up to e-par lol but you do need it in dfw. Like stephen said we have some members in the dallas/grand prairie area just let us know when you get in.
yeah e-test is in garland & all the dfw area
makes me glad i live in hunt county... all i have is a saftey inspection
nice & cheap compared to the test in dfw
shoot if i was you i would get a po box in quinlan (closest town to garland in hunt county)
then register your car in hunt county & then you can do inspections in hunt county & not have to worry about e-test
MikeC!
91 sunbird Convertible
3.1 with an automatic
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3038464
i recently searched online and it said that for 96 and up vehicles they just check the OBD2 system for the emissions. is that true? and if it is is there a chip that i could put in my car to fake out my computer? and the PO box thing is a real good idea. do PO boxes cost anything?
they put a probe in the tailpipe to get readings on exhaust gasses & connect to the obdII & all that stuff & the computer thing they use reads all the emmision crap & then tells you pass or fail with what readings are for each catagory...
& it is a pain if you fail cause you got 15 days to get it fixed & passed & you still have to pay for the inspection even if you fail...
yeah P.O boxes cost, but it's like 25 or 40 a year or something like that
it's been almost 7 years since i had a po box so don't member the exact cost, but it's not that bad really, but with using it as your address & then regestering your car in that county, with the way the rules work in texas for inspections, you can get your car inspected in that county.
but if you have your car registered in a county that has e-test on the inspection, you can't get it inspected in any non e-test county, matter of fact they will tell you they can't touch the car because of it, but if the car is registered in the non e-test county than you can go to any non e-test county & get it inspected....
or that is what 1 inspection place told me once,,, the tx dot website should be able to explain it alot better...
MikeC!
91 sunbird Convertible
3.1 with an automatic
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3038464
My friend also told me that i could get a pipe build to replace the cat and switch it back and for for the E-test any thought s on that?
just make a new friend thats a state inspector
I NEED a 97-99 LD9 engine harness for an auto.PM if u hav info.!!
weird thing is ive never got the e-test done on my car in the past 3 years
well keep an eye out when your getting on the fwy they always have those damn e-test trucks sitting there taking emission tests. If you see on stay on the service road lol
is that what they do always wondered what the hell the trucks were doing there lol
yup doing emission tests oh and if you fail there is always a cop close by to pull you over
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how can they take the test without being so close that u can taste them? well i think i might do the PO box idea but how will that works cuz my address on my license would be differant. if u could explain this more that would be great
herro there