Hello all again, last post I introduced myself and 711/1000 to everyone. This time around I'm back with some updates and questions. First off, I absolutly love this car! It's been good to me so far and I suspect it will continue to. In my intro post I said accidently wrote that the car has 141,000 miles when in reality it is nearing 115K. Whoops. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif I haven't done much yet but what I have done is get a new muffler and cat. The old muffler was not on the car when I purchased it and it was basically a straight pipe because the cat was either hollowed out or no good, I think the former. The muffler that wasn't on there was a magnaflow 40 series and it had a broken baffle so now it's scrap metal and the muffler on there now has the same internals as a 40 series. The new cat(not really new)came out of my dad's garage and works just fine. I had the same guy put on the muffler and cat. (Shhh...Not exactly legal) After I got the exhaust straightened out I went back to emissions testing (failed the first one obviously due to no cat) and failed again, but this time I failed in CO instead of nox. The margain of error was only 0.3 (The limit is 15.0 and I read a 15.3) so this is where my questions come in. What is the problem here? My first thought was a tune up, also, there is that "Gurranteed to Pass" sh*t but I've had bad luck with that before. If it is just a tune up then I wanted to change the plugs and wires. If I put in something like a NGK 8mm combo will it help my dilema or hurt. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif I don't want to have to buy twice. The other thing was in my previous post I mentioned that the turbo fully spools around 5K. That statement was false. I was simply relaying info from the p.o. The 16g spools just fine but I've noticed a big decline in power after putting on a muffler and cat. In first gear, if you try to launch, it sounds like the turbo is pulling hard but I don't feel it. Then I go to 2 and I can feel it just fine at 3K usually. That's all I can remember for now. Here's a picture. I'm having trouble uploading the others. Thanks.
-Will V.
-Will V.