5spdftw

I'm getting sick of this. First I decide to save up for a Roush TVS but then realize that they are a no no in California. Then I decide on cams and longtubes only to discover that all of the tree huggers won't let me foul the air more than I already am. Then I decide to settle for cams and gears but I just read that some tunes with cams can fail emissions. Can I catch a break? Anyone know of any mods that ARE legal in stupid California? End of rant.

Young_Gun

Can I just take this post to say - I HATE HATE HATE THAT STUPID STATE!

Your state is full of idiots. I think their next state law will make it illegal to be an American citizen.

5spdftw

Honestly, with Jerry Brown at the helm once again I wouldn't be surprised. He is the one who started all of this anti-muscle car crap back in the day. Silly man.

Flat out

Really, so next your going to tell me Indiana is where Einstein is from?

Young_Gun

Nope - but I will say we know and full well allow fun cars that belch black smoke and get 0MPGs

Flat out

For what it's worth, I have an m90, long tubes and cams and am one of the IDIOTS who live in Calif. You have to be creative but I have been able to pass a sniff test with the right tune, and a $100.00 because my hood latch was broken.

5spdftw

How do you swing the long tubes? Aside from a blatant bribe that is...

Flat out

I live in Humboldt Co. so unless I sell the car for the next few years there won"t be any tests for me, but after I built this thing I had my tuner come up with an emission tune, it will pass the sniff test, with the VMP tune never. My last Mustang was very similar and did require the as you call it '' blatant bribe" I kind of look at it as a service charge, to me it's money well spent for 500h.p.

danzcool

It appears he handed the guy a c-note to not look under the hood.


There's quite a bit that's legal, You picked one of the superchargers that didn't get approval, take a look at the edelbrok eforce (a 2.3L TVS, just like the roush), The ford racing/whipple kit, saleen, vortek...
Long tubes are a no go legally, they either remove or replace the cats, you can get jba's cat forward shorties, not quite the same thing but...
Cams are mostly ust hard to tune to get past the sniff test as well as causing a rough idle which is also a fail. There are plenty of CAI's and exhausts on the market, the cops don't like it too loud though, CA has a drive by noise level that cops just hand out without measuring (95db at 5').
Yeah, it sucks, but you have to play the game.

5spdftw

Wtf? A rough idle is illegal? Motherfvcker! Can't wait to pass the sniff test only to have the guy say, "oh well your idle is rough so you failed anyway."