General NYS inspection and OBD2 question

Correct. What I’m getting at is you could theoretically use the older LS camaro PCM and it will report monitors ready and not DTCs without the extra info(serial #). If you used a new PCM and it throws out a serial # then DMV would see it go wtf and red flag the inspection and come check out the car. Again I emphasize this is just my theory, in my experience DMV isn’t free with info to allow us to do stuff that they don’t want us to.