Question about Chicago Emissions / Registration

[Shane]

As you can tell from my location I'm pretty much constantly moving between my apartment in Chicago and a room in Metro Detroit in my friend's house. I'm looking to switch my registration to Illinois as I honestly keep the cars there more often than I do in Michigan.

I'm CERTAIN that my GN won't pass IL emissions (ummm, some parts fell off ), but I think that my Fiero might with a little bit of work.

Coming from a MI boy that has ZERO experience with emissions I wonder if any of you can tell me how hard Cook County tests are plus what are the legalities of keeping a car with the wrong plates on it out of state?

FYI My Drivers Liscence is from MI, my plates are from MI, my insurance is from CT, and I spend most of my time in IL. I know I have to fix the insurance (it's up for renewal anyways), but I could use some help from some of you more experienced guys.

 

[chrisgarrett]

My understanding is that with most of the changes we make on these cars, you may not pass IL emissions. You might want to consider insuring the car as a collector car. There are certain restrictions, but you will not have to emissions test the car. Look into it; call Ellen at Rally Insurance, 800 801 1823. You can also insure the car for what it's really worth by furnishing them with a list of improvements you have made. I have mine insured for $22,000.00, 6K annual miles restriction and I never have to emission test.

 

[GNVYUS 1]

You will pass with your mods, I did before my rebuild with almost the same setup to yours. I got a hair over 50% on the hydrocarbon so you will be ok.

Just make sure your blm's are no lower than 128, and preferably around 132-138 for the emmissions testing. Have a good catalytic, if you have the stock piece you might want to go test first and then if you fail get a new one.

Illinois does not look under the hood, but they do dyno it.

To give you an idea, I tried passing on a test pipe just to see and missed the hydrocarbon by about 20% over, and that was running pretty lean. Its not that hard to pass IMO with a good tune and cat on the car.