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Old Aug 12, 2014 | 09:38 PM
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I just failed to pass my sniffer test, im not really surprised I expected to be a little of but the amount really took me by surprise.

The car is a 93 with LT4 hotcam, Vortech supercharger and I run E85.

at idle i was able to produce 800HC I have a tune from a guy online whos made 3 revisions so far and the car runs and drives pretty good, theres still some stuff to iron out but now im pretty worried about getting a inspection.

It has the factory cats, but even if the cars are bad isnt 800HC really high at idle? I figured since its running E85 it could be close to passing without cats all together!

He said I cannot go over 200 and he still has to rev the car so im pretty much screwed, Anyone have any suggestions or opinions on what I should do next?
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Old Aug 13, 2014 | 07:07 AM
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you can bump your idle to 1100 rpm and also bring down the idle timing to about 16 degrees.
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Old Aug 13, 2014 | 07:35 AM
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Mine had previously failed HC @ idle, so I raised RPM to 1300 - 1400 and it passed with flying colors.
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what has been changed besides the hotcam and supercharger?
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Old Aug 13, 2014 | 01:41 PM
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Start putting in Diodes inline on the 02 sensor's and trick it into leaning the crap out of it to lower your HC's
http://www.audiworld.com/tech/eng53.shtml
Here is just one article on that.
There is a hole other world out there on doing the opposite of what we do

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