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Its open for debate here in NSW and a grey area because many believe that as long as your car passes emissions tests at either of the EPA facilities in Sydney (Botany and Penrith), the engineer shouldnt discriminate if you have a plumback external wastegate or not and should sign off on it. I've seen cars engineered with external plumbacks and so they should be in my opinion provided that emissions are OK. To have a fair and just system there shouldnt be a blanket ban on items such as external wastegates provided that the vehicle still meets relevent ADR's and emmissions laws. To ban items simply because of the fact that they are not standard or understood correctly shows just how naive our governing bodies can be in regard to vehicle modifications. Fair enough if you are foolish to run an external wastegate without plumback into the exhaust, like a screamer pipe, then that would be in complete breach of the ADR/EPA laws and you should suffer the brunt of a hefty fine from the EPA you naughty little boys 
Changing exhausts alters emissions and noise... yet the laws state that as long as you maintain emissions by running a catalytic converter and fall under the decibel limit it's OK.
Changing exhausts alters emissions and noise... yet the laws state that as long as you maintain emissions by running a catalytic converter and fall under the decibel limit it's OK.
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Pass it even without a cat and you can drive out
Which ive seen done..beleive it or not...how?
i dont know..but it did.
The stupid thing is..Your full load emmissions are up to **** anyway..no car passes any emmissions test under full load..its not possible..and its only at full load that your External wastegate will be open..hence at a point when the emmisions are out of range...
Ive seen a gtr get away with it purely on this argument...
Though i wouldnt want to go to court with it..i rekon youd lose..
purely on the fact that you have exhaust gas thats not ghoing through a catalytic converter.
As for it being plumbed in ive heard its fine and never had a problem..if they say it changes your emmissions ask them how and in exactly what way That particular mod changes it..then ask them to prove it..they wont..because they cant.....an aftermarket computer as well as a B.O.V..a pod a fuel pump..fuel reg...all that **** changes your emmissions.
So their argument is ****..it doesnt matter what changes it...its just the fact that it is changed that makes it illegal.
Which ive seen done..beleive it or not...how?
i dont know..but it did.
The stupid thing is..Your full load emmissions are up to **** anyway..no car passes any emmissions test under full load..its not possible..and its only at full load that your External wastegate will be open..hence at a point when the emmisions are out of range...
Ive seen a gtr get away with it purely on this argument...
Though i wouldnt want to go to court with it..i rekon youd lose..
purely on the fact that you have exhaust gas thats not ghoing through a catalytic converter.
As for it being plumbed in ive heard its fine and never had a problem..if they say it changes your emmissions ask them how and in exactly what way That particular mod changes it..then ask them to prove it..they wont..because they cant.....an aftermarket computer as well as a B.O.V..a pod a fuel pump..fuel reg...all that **** changes your emmissions.
So their argument is ****..it doesnt matter what changes it...its just the fact that it is changed that makes it illegal.
