Will a car with an Fcon pass MD emissions?

 

We can make it happen

-George
GT Motorsports

 

As George stated, if we can make it happen in california I dont see why MD would be a problem since california is know to have the stricktest emissions standards in the country.

sam

 

Thats good to know. I was told that it may be a problem when they hook up to the OBDII port as it would come up blank or with HKS Vpro....

 

Great point I never even thought of that...so how do you guys do it?

 

Not with the FCon IS

-George
GT Motorsports

 

but the IS unit is not a VPro...the IS is a piggy back more comperable to the UTEC or EMU......
i mean when the OP was asking about emmisions and FCON he is talking about FCON Vpro(he probably didn't know about the IS).

SO let me rephrase the question can you pass emissions with the HKF FCON VPro?

 

Does it even matter? I mean lets face it, anybody that has an HKS FCON VPRO definitely has major modifications on their vehicle or else they wouldn't spend the money on a very intricate engine management system. So with that being said the car wouldn't pass the visual inspection i.e. Turbo kit, test pipes or other visual modifications that can be seen unless the person who smogs the car is shady, and if he is shady then you really don't need to worry about passing with the EMS. I have a few smog people that I actually know and just have to give them the VIN number and not even take the car in person and the car will pass. But again, anybody who does a smog and lets you get away with modifications that are visual is a guy who I am sure can finagle the papework to let you pass smog, just my .02 cents.

 

The answer to your questions is yes. I can make a car pass emission testing in California with HKS IS and V Pro

You don’t loose any of the OBD2 functions when using F Con IS neither the V Pro, and that is why people complain about the service engine soon light coming on with fuel trim codes with F Con V Pro, since the V Pro takes complete control over fuel land timing.
Now how this can be done. It is somehow simple if someone can understand how the factory ECU operates, but is very tedious and time consuming to say the least. In a nut shell, you will have to tune the car exactly like the factory ECU in close loop and make your short and long trim fuel as close to o correction as possible, this will make the factory ECU happy, the check engine light will never come on, all the OBD2 readiness system test will pass and you will pass the emission test.
The beauty about the F Con V Pro, if set right that it can be utilized to operate in open and close loop just like the factory ECU, meaning the F Con will make short fuel trim correction every time the car start and revert to the base map after shut done, also by utilizing this option you will always have the perfect tune since it is impossible to tune the car once for all conditions and climates.
Now for people like yourself in Arizona, things get a lot simpler, since all you have to do is just pass the OBDE test, I have a customer car in the shop right now from Arizona, getting equipt with our stroker engine, very radical build (1000 rwhp strandard correction jokn)that we are to supplying him with one map for smog so when he gets the car tested, all he has to do is flip the switch via F Con navegator and it is done.

Hope this helps.

Sam
GT Motorsports