Hondata KPro & Inspections
03-20-2019, 06:57 AM
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Hondata KPro & Inspections
Any local owners have/had KPro (00-05, not DBW reflash) and have experience to share with state inspections? I have always wanted to go KPro but would like to know for certain that it won’t further complicate passing inspections and staying legal. I’m in Travis County, Austin, so I know YMMV but overall any Texas experience would be good to hear.
03-20-2019, 02:05 PM
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What "inspections" does Texas do? and how often? Can't see the ECU being a factor other than in emissions testing and since the KPro is illegal for road vehicles I'm betting it won't pass smog.
The only real benefit of a "tune" without forced induction, KPro or otherwise, is to lower VTEC and for max midrange power that requires a high flow cat or cat-delete, either of which can make the car fail smog if readiness flags don't get set right. A non-CARB approved aftermarket induction system is also illegal for road vehicles.
-- Chuck
El Paso, Travis and Williamson County Motorists
1995 and older vehicles will receive the Two Speed Idle (TSI) test while 1996 and newer vehicles receive the On-Board Diagnostic (OBDII) test.
1995 and older vehicles will receive the Two Speed Idle (TSI) test while 1996 and newer vehicles receive the On-Board Diagnostic (OBDII) test.
-- Chuck
Last edited by Chuck S; 03-20-2019 at 02:11 PM.
03-21-2019, 02:13 PM
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What "inspections" does Texas do? and how often? Can't see the ECU being a factor other than in emissions testing and since the KPro is illegal for road vehicles I'm betting it won't pass smog.
The only real benefit of a "tune" without forced induction, KPro or otherwise, is to lower VTEC and for max midrange power that requires a high flow cat or cat-delete, either of which can make the car fail smog if readiness flags don't get set right. A non-CARB approved aftermarket induction system is also illegal for road vehicles.
-- Chuck
The only real benefit of a "tune" without forced induction, KPro or otherwise, is to lower VTEC and for max midrange power that requires a high flow cat or cat-delete, either of which can make the car fail smog if readiness flags don't get set right. A non-CARB approved aftermarket induction system is also illegal for road vehicles.
-- Chuck
10-10-2020, 05:28 AM
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I’m not familiar with Texas emissions testing but hopefully you find this useful
in my area we initially used to have tail pipe sniffer testing. Kpro would pass that assuming you have a cat
they later moved onto a basic obd2 computer check, they simply check if you had any CELs or obd2 emissions readiness monitors that were in the state of FAILED. If you did you failed. Otherwise you passed. KPro would pass this type of test as well
now if you’re not already aware the other potential states an obd2 readiness code can be in are NOT SUPPORTED and PASSED. A lot of newer cars have tuning options which give the owner the option to simply turn off many of the these emissions monitors (ie change them to NOT SUPPORTED permanently)
so in my area to combat the new tuning options they got stricter on obd2 checks. They maintained a database of all cars and which obd2 readiness monitors were supported from the factory. If these readiness monitors were not in a state of PASSED then you would fail. Kpro would fail this test because the Kpo in the 2000-2005 s2000 application does not support the same obd2 readiness monitors that the oem s2000 does from the factory. More specifically the obd2 emissions monitors for secondary o2 sensor and secondary air pump injection system
in my area we initially used to have tail pipe sniffer testing. Kpro would pass that assuming you have a cat
they later moved onto a basic obd2 computer check, they simply check if you had any CELs or obd2 emissions readiness monitors that were in the state of FAILED. If you did you failed. Otherwise you passed. KPro would pass this type of test as well
now if you’re not already aware the other potential states an obd2 readiness code can be in are NOT SUPPORTED and PASSED. A lot of newer cars have tuning options which give the owner the option to simply turn off many of the these emissions monitors (ie change them to NOT SUPPORTED permanently)
so in my area to combat the new tuning options they got stricter on obd2 checks. They maintained a database of all cars and which obd2 readiness monitors were supported from the factory. If these readiness monitors were not in a state of PASSED then you would fail. Kpro would fail this test because the Kpo in the 2000-2005 s2000 application does not support the same obd2 readiness monitors that the oem s2000 does from the factory. More specifically the obd2 emissions monitors for secondary o2 sensor and secondary air pump injection system
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