2003 civic SI with greddy ecu won't pass emissions obviously
 

So a friend of mine is working on a customers car with a full Greddy turbo kit. He is getting paid to make it pass emissions, and we're both well aware of the quality of the ecu and kit in general and how unlikely it is to pass emissions. None the less we need to make it pass. In IL as long as the car has all the readiness codes passed you pass, however if there are readiness codes that are incomplete they will put the car on the rollers and then it surely won't pass. It has not passed the evap, catalyst, and O2 readiness codes even though all the parameters seem to be fine. Any ideas??? I'm lost, I've never really messed with this emissions readiness code ----, and he is an acura tech and has access to every scanner known to man and we are stumped.

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Greddy ecu = blue box? Why not put the stock ecu in a block down the road, roll up there, pass and put the greddy ecu back in?

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Yes its the blue box, Thats kind of what are are doing now. We think it may have somethign to do with the map sensor, so we are disconnecting the map sensor from running through the greddy ecu now. We are slightly worried about running it with no management kind of, but we are just going to drive and keep it out of boost.

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Open up your pipes, change out the waste gate spring, do whatever it takes to bring down your boost pressure then run the stock ecu a block down the road like stated. You guys make this harder then it really is. 2 hours of work to pass emissions for a year or what ever your state requires aint crap. :3

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if its a greddy kit take off the waste gate actuator arm..

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i say disconnect the charge pipe to where the engine wont see boost then put in factory ecu...bam done

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dont even deed to disconect the charge pipe (just stay out of boost). just swap ecus a block down the street...... bam done

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along with the turbo

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well i dont know about the test centers in his neck of the woods but i have heard that the guy doing the tests puts it on the rollers and drives and that they will put it in boost. and thats why i said disconnect the charge pipes

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why not just take the waisgait spring out?

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because your an idiot

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but if you took the sping out it would not make any boost and if they looked under the hood there would not be any pipes unhooked and there would be no chance of them blowing it up with the stock ecu

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yeah it's not like the pinner greddy turbo could overspool and get fucked up.

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His car is OBDII, It does not need to see the rollers, just pass the OBDII tests. If he did need to run it on the dyno you do not need enough throttle to see boost, if you give it that much throttle it will send you out of the parameters anyway and they will have to redo the test. By pass the Greddy box, Run off the stock map and if it has bigger injectors/map then put the stock stuff on and run it, stay out of boost but drive it for a good 50 miles before bringing it in for inspection OR just plug a different car into the machine.

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set if on fire >:D

Re: 2003 civic SI with greddy ecu won't pass emissions obviously
 

after 20 days thats all you could think of :S

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Disconnecting charge pipe overspins and kills the turbo. Producing boost puts a restriction on how much can be flowed across the compressor, which limits shaftspeed so it doesn't hit riceboy-thousand rpms and ---- up the shaft/bearings within ten minutes.

If readiness codes aren't set GUESS WHAT??? The ECU has most likely been reset recently and hasn't run long enough to set readiness codes, and it sure hasn't tripped a CEL. You need to idle the car long enough for the fans to cut on and off twice, then drive the car 2-3 miles without hitting boost, readiness codes set or CEL set. ------- with the MAP won't do anything for the O2, evap, non-MAP circuit operation. :(

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I tried to warn of that as well.

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Yeah, well, Mase told somebody to do it back in '04 and now all the riceboys think it's the greatest idea ever.