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Do0d I live in England as as far as Posh and becks go you got them and you can keep them.
You got Robbie Williams too.
England is sending all the really annoying people to California
There are a couple of tricks to help you just inch past a smog check.
I am from Cali San Jose east foot hills
Hell I am still a Sharks and 9'ers fan
Now I live in England I can say we have very tough smog laws cars here have to pass an MOT which is overseen by the police and VOSA
Explanation MOT=ministry of transport test
VOSA = Vehicle operating safety authority
The cops here car take a picture of you plate from 250 metres and pull up the day and time of your last MOT
No MOT no insurance
I have learned some nifty tricks for just skating through the emissions test
It will be harder for you in CA because your fuel is so bad. In the UK the lowest grade unleaded is 95 octane Super is 99-101 but we pay for it $8-9 per gallon
and even though it is so clean burning unless a car is basically perfect they will still fail, they check everything cat operation, Lambda, moisture content and Co2
We have still figured ways to scrape through even after decating a car.
First if it still has a cat then wrap it with heat shielding from the header to the cat keeping the heat in the exhaust will make the cat work better and burn any unspent hydrocarbons in the exhaust.
Add a bit of O2 to your fuel now a cheap way to do this is really easy and super cheap a little Rubbing alcohol 90% or better if you can get it 90% is available from most Longs, Walgreen's ect in CA any pharmacy use at 1% to the fuel no more then 3%. so 500ml to 50 litres or about 1 pint to 10-12 gallons
Halo plugs will cut emissions quite a fair bit and give you a bit extra power. www.haloplugs.com
Switch to a racing cat if you can.
Get your intake air as cold as possible best bet a front mount intercooler.
If you can get a front mount a good induction kit with heat shielding.
The best is Thermotec Cool It!
Remember heat is the enemy, So keep you exhaust hot and get it way from the engine fast
keep you intake cool spark cleaner and use cleaner fuel.
A bit of Moly will help with raising ring seals and improve compression just slightly enough to burn that tiny bit cleaner.
CA smog check is easy compared to an MOT I have a 20 year old Toyota Van, and a Jap derestriced Gen 5 Celica never failed an MOT, I have even had some Ford POS cars and they never fail either.
I deal with several shops that are VOSA registered testing stations and we know the trick to get highly modded cars through the MOT

I don't think Crewchief was disputing the bhp effect of this product but rather commenting on the increased wear and tear on both the engine and the ignition components.
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Spot on buddy, It will increase BHP and performance but will place a burden on the ignition system, there are also ramifications with having a spark that is far to hot for your engine.
I have been a spark plugs dealer for 6 years an engineer for 12 and a mechanic for 27.
I was a registered denso and Bosch dealer, and am still a NGK dealer and I am one of only 2 Halo distributors on earth.
I can say with complete confidence the Plug manufacturers go to very expensive lengths and liaise with the makers of cars to match heat ranges to engine needs and specs.
I have further refined that for the EU market due to our very high quality (but extortionately over priced fuel $8 per gallon at the pump) You want to match the final spark heat to the fuel, compression and engine performance figures.
A better spark but not necessarily hotter is what you want.
If you increase the amperage and voltage the heat will go up, and the higher performance the engine the cooler the spark you want.
If you use a plugs that is too hot or over heat a plug for a faster spark you can damage the piston or the valves as well as the spark plug.

Thanks for the invite.
Ok this is the engineer in me talking and a little of the mechanic.
Sounds a good idea on the surface but there are some basic problems
1) plugs have resistors in them to protect from surges and give consistent spark millions of times.
way over amping a plug will burn out the resistor.
The plug makers only make the plugs to take a certain amount of volts and amps while that is a pretty wide range way over juicing them will burn them out.
So plugs won't last as long.
2) once the resistor goes regulating the heat of the spark is out the window it will fluctuate widely
throwing a powerful spark is a great thing but getting the heat range wrong can cause serious damage including heat scoring on the piston.
3) creating a multiple spark will only work with a multiple electrode plug so this will only be effective with that style of plugs which are not made to fit all cars.
this over sparking will cause more spark erosion on the plugs anode and can eat away at the electrode. Which again will effect the heat range and gap.

Lastly you can get this with out spending $250
Halo spark plugs will give you multiple sparks from you existing ignition system.
It provides a direct path for the fuel air mixture to ignite flame kernel firing 31% faster then standard plugs burning more of the fuel already in the combustion chamber reducing emissions.
A performance shop in the UK JDP performance one of the techs working there did an emissions test before removing his cat another after then again after adding Halo's the test after the Halo's was almost the same as with a cat.
on the Dyno he gained 11 bhp and 9ftlb of torque with Halo's just as a bonus he also went up 2mpg this test was on a 94 prelude with 137,000 miles.
A set of Halos will cost around $60 and last for 3 years with the right heat range for your car.

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Halo plugs, dyno tested and proven to increase bhp and torque while lowering emmissions and improving mileage. The average increase in bhp increase in a 4 cylinder car like Scooby Celica is 11bhp 2 weeks ago on the dyno 10 cars changed for Halo all showed an improvement all were previously running denso irridium, NGK racing irridium, or bosch platinum, the best improvement was in a Nissan Silvia that picked up 26bhp and 23ftlb torque a Nissan Skyline with a newly rebuilt and mapped engine was dyno'd with NGK irridium at 241bhp with .7bar boost was retested with halos and came out at 262 bhp with .6 bar boost

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