5.0 Mustang and Super Fords saids No Cold Air Induction kits are legal but Ford.
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5.0 Mustang and Super Fords saids No Cold Air Induction kits are legal but Ford.
This is highly ridiculous and is on page 154 of the November issue. It stated that CARB has not approved any CAIs' but FRPP's . Stating that the key to achieving CARB's OK is a hydrocarbon trap inside the intake tube. This one is dubbed the "Bullitt CAI". I called my local Ford dealership and stated what I had read and he said that it's highly unlikely that I would fail an emissions test and that the so call Bullitt CAI was the ones installed on the early Shelby GTs' were tested for CARBs' inspection. I live in a state (South Carolina) that doesn't have inspections but this kind of eats at me. I called Brenspeed and they said that it is wrong information that there is others that are accepted by CARB. A few I can remember is JLT and K-N. I remember having one these so called hydrocarbon trap inside my stock 05 when I bought it and remember well that they discontinued it on the 2006 and after. My CAI is the C/L regular not race version.
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They used these in the 05s and discontinued them in 06. Who knows they might have began using them again. My understanding they are used for gas fumes that can be submitted after turning the car off???
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Anyway I talked to C/L and he said that this was B/S. That clause D-640 exemption allows all cars from may 05 and on to be 50 state compliance. Now if your car was made earlier than May of 2005 you would have to be driving in California for it to be guilty of emissions being that Ford discontinued them in 05 in their Mustangs. More information is that this so called hydro carbon trap was to stops gases that might have passed beyond the engine and travel down the throttle body into the filter which he said was highly unlikely. So much 5.0 magazine I'm not going to resubscribed to those people anymore. I'll stick with Muscular Mustangs and Fast fords and Modified Mustangs.
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I don't know the laws of every state, but in California everything from the throttle body forward is fair game, just as everything after the cats is fair game. As long as any emission control devices are still functional (p.c.v tube), it's legal.
Where I can see the issue coming from is that most of the cai's require a tune - THAT is not legal. By that logic, the legal options would be K&N, Airraid, C&L (with the insert), Granatelli (with the insert, not his maf).
The FACTORY "Bullit" intake is not the same as the FRPP unit. They look pretty close, but the factory one has "mufflers" (there is a actual name for them but I forgot it) attached to the bottom of it to quiet it down.
Where I can see the issue coming from is that most of the cai's require a tune - THAT is not legal. By that logic, the legal options would be K&N, Airraid, C&L (with the insert), Granatelli (with the insert, not his maf).
The FACTORY "Bullit" intake is not the same as the FRPP unit. They look pretty close, but the factory one has "mufflers" (there is a actual name for them but I forgot it) attached to the bottom of it to quiet it down.