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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 10:44 PM
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Lightbulb Mini cat

I have a 2004 RX8 with the Racing beat dual resonated pipe. and i'm in need of something to pass emissions. A friend of mine told me of an o2 simulator. I checked the site at www.02sim.com and they said their not taking any orders at the moment.


Has anyone heard of this?
http://bigdaddiesgarage.com/mini-cat-cel-fix.html

And does anyone know if it works?


Or does anyone know of any other solution.
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 11:44 PM
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An accessport will mask an engine light code.

A tune with said accessport will 'clean things up'.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 12:17 AM
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The 02 simulators don't work on our car.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 06:05 AM
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i was actually curious on if this thing would work, but no one has taken the plunge yet. I mean it is less like a simulator and more of a tiny catalytic converter that sits on the o2 sensor. I think you should give it a shot and let us know how it works out.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by warren(silver-roxy-8)
An accessport will mask an engine light code.

A tune with said accessport will 'clean things up'.
ok then i have a series 2 will this work for me (since u decided to not even try and answer the original posters question)
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 07:21 AM
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ok then i have a series 2 will this work for me (since u decided to not even try and answer the original posters question)
Originally Posted by paimon.soror
i was actually curious on if this thing would work, but no one has taken the plunge yet. I mean it is less like a simulator and more of a tiny catalytic converter that sits on the o2 sensor. I think you should give it a shot and let us know how it works out.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 09:02 AM
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Ive tried both products from bigdaddies garage the one with the mini cat and the one without. The CEL stayed on all the time, I feel I was better off without them because when I had just the mid pipe and no O2 fix the CEL would turn off every now and then.

From the forum some people have had success so its really up to you to risk it, it did not work for me.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Heeroguy
ok then i have a series 2 will this work for me (since u decided to not even try and answer the original posters question)
Search and find out.

OP asked if anyone had any other solutions; I believe I gave him one.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Heeroguy
ok then i have a series 2 will this work for me (since u decided to not even try and answer the original posters question)
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-yourself-forum-73/diy-passing-inspection-gutted-cat-227558/

That is also another option for the OP to try. Worked perfectly fine for me, you can have 1 emissions test marked as incomplete and still pass.
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:43 AM
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Nice find, xexok!
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 10:55 PM
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mini-cat for a mega-noob?
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Old Feb 14, 2012 | 11:01 PM
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Smile Mini-cat?

It's gotta be something like this...

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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by xexok
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=227558

That is also another option for the OP to try. Worked perfectly fine for me, you can have 1 emissions test marked as incomplete and still pass.
nice a free easy fix =)
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Old Feb 15, 2012 | 10:09 AM
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Yep for now, as long as you do not have the sniffer test. Any state should not be doing sniffer tests on 1996 and newer cars, but I guess some still might. Eventually they will smarten up and fix this loophole but that may take them a long long time.
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google knows a mega noob when it sees one
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