# NYS Emissions Q's **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [August 10, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802 "2006-08-10T21:51:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/1 "2006-08-10T21:51:04Z")
So I’m planning out a swap for my 1986 200sx, gonna put an s13 sr20det into it. Still in the planning stages so I have like a bajillion unanswered questions (my first swap). Since the car is OBD0 will I have problems passing the inspection? I’m more worried about the emissions than the visual, I doubt any mechanic remembers what a ca20e looks like and ill just tell tem its the ca18et anyway. But don’t OBD0 cars get alot more leeway in inspections? ---
**Author:** ![rskrause](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rskrause/32/7367_2.png) [@rskrause](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rskrause)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/2 "2006-08-10T21:56:02Z")
Where do you live? ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/3 "2006-08-10T21:58:16Z")
Buffalo, NY Amherst to be specific ---
**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/4 "2006-08-10T22:28:21Z")
on something that old i am pretty sure its just visual. ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/5 "2006-08-10T22:33:37Z")
yea, thats what I figure but I keep seeing things about probes in tailpipes…That kind of talk makes me nervous. ---
**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/6 "2006-08-10T22:35:45Z")
well just cuz theres an O2 sensor doesnt mean it gets checked for emissions, if thats what you’re getting at. ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/7 "2006-08-10T22:40:45Z")
no like a probe put in the tailpipe to check for NOX,CO2 all that shit. but its an 86, so shouldnt it jsut be like, “oh brakes work, gas cap is on” PASS ---
**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/8 "2006-08-10T22:42:48Z")
> [@FightinMike](#): > > but its an 86, so shouldnt it jsut be like, “oh brakes work, gas cap is on” PASS yeah thats about it. based on the emmissions technology they had in '86, theres noooo way a car that old could pass a modern emissions test…hell they thought cats were a big thing back then haha. ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/9 "2006-08-10T22:43:57Z")
haha, yea my ca20e actually has 8 spark plugs and a cat for exhaust, still prolly wouldnt pass a damn thing ---
**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/10 "2006-08-10T22:45:59Z")
i kno some1 that had a 86 trans am and he went to a junkyard, got 2 _mismatched_ cats, cut them in half and weleded them around the exhast pipes (so the pipe ran straight though the ‘cats’)…the people doing the inspection looked at him kidna funny like “what the fuckis this?” but they had to pass it because cats were technically present. ---
**Author:** ![FightinMike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@FightinMike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FightinMike)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/11 "2006-08-10T22:46:59Z")
yea I absolutely had a nice crack in my exhaust (still do), and some chain place passed me no prob. ---
**Author:** ![gsx](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gsx/32/7277_2.png) [@gsx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/gsx)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/12 "2006-08-10T23:17:30Z")
you will be fine i used to do inspections ---
**Author:** ![Pauly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pauly/32/7493_2.png) [@Pauly](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pauly)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/13 "2006-08-11T04:07:40Z")
pre-96 is not plugged in it is visual only. make sure that what ever emissions the engine label says it has are present (doesnt have to work but has to be there). any vehicle pre 96 with mil light lit will still pass ---
**Author:** ![rskrause](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rskrause/32/7367_2.png) [@rskrause](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rskrause)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/14 "2006-08-12T06:24:13Z")
In this area on an '86 it will just be a visual. ---
**Author:** ![Z28adiction](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/z28adiction/32/4980_2.png) [@Z28adiction](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Z28adiction)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/15 "2006-09-10T16:10:21Z")
you only get an emissions check if your vin shows your car is 96 or newer. if its a 95 or older no worry about emissions check. ---
**Author:** ![nixad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f6c823/32.png) [@nixad](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nixad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/16 "2006-10-20T13:52:12Z")
Pretty sweet idea, keep me update 😉 ---
**Author:** ![92accordexpower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/b9bd4f/32.png) [@92accordexpower](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/92accordexpower)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-emissions-qs/15802/17 "2006-11-22T13:47:17Z")
1995 and older vehicles in all non NYMA markets in in New york state are only subject to a visual emissions inspection, meaning, all equipped emissions devices, such as cats, evap, pcv, air injection, egr, have to be **present** , and connected, but do not have to be operable. your car can throw as many codes as it wants, and have a MIL on, and blow black smoke, and it doesn’t matter. if your car is 96 and newer, not only do all the emissions devices need to be intact, but need to be working, as per the computers emissions monitors. any failed monitors will fail the inspection, and any more than 2 monitors not completed will fail inspection. No inspections in upstate NY (or anywhere not NYMA) use Dynamometer tests or sniffer tests to check for exhaust gas emissions. The only place that uses Dyno, or sniffer tests are in the New York Metropolitan area.