What's up with this emissions stuff? Is there anything we can do to our cars and get away with. I'm from texas and as long as you don't have tons of smoke coming from your car they don't really care. Is it really illegal to have a CAI or Header on your car? WTF?

 

yes.. it's illegal.

 

lol yeah california needs to have carb sticker( california air resource board )some stuff will work if it has carb sticker...and there is a new, well a few years old dyno were the car needs to be driven to test for smog...im glad im moving back to missouri in about 2 years..i need to smog my box i got a carb intake but illegal header and a axle back im going to try and smog it the way it is and see what happens ...need to get my cali plates on, my kansas one expire at the end of the month btw you can do it illegallly but it will cost ya around 150..

 

whatever isn't from the factory is illegal in California.

 

Everything is illegal period. leave your car stock and not a problem.

 

Actually I think California would allow us to shove cotten up the tailpipes you know.....to absorb some air pollution or something but thats the most radical mod though will allow...lol

 

most aftermarket exhaust are legal.

when I used to have my honda civic my aftermarket air intake and headers are legal, CARB Approved.

Its just no ones making CARB stamped parts for the tC, yet.

 

There is one... K&N short-ram intake system for 05-06 tCs. Not sure if it adds anything in real life, but it sounds nice when I'm at 4K-5K.

 

Yes it does Allen. . . 3 hp!

 

7hp if you believe the ad!

 

I have this booklet at work that shows how many hp gain you'd get out of the K&N and it was really 4. That's why i didn't get it, lol.

 

100% illegal man. As mentioned, except for the K&N SR intake for the '05-'06 tc, nothing's CARB-approved (yet). And the header? Forget it for the our cars. As for exhausts, it's a matter of how loud it is, not so much for emissions reasons. By the letter of the law, they have to be 93db or under; however, it is at the officer's discretion whether it is loud or not, and hence issue a ticket or not. And, adding a header w/ a within-limit exhaust will make it sound louder = illegal.
And forget about putting tints (in the fronts) too.

Welcome to Cali

 

You're basically screwed. Some people mod the heck out of their engines anyways.

Sorry to say since I dont want my gas mileage any worse I dont mod anything in my engine.

 

Even changing the color temperature or brightness of your stock headlights is illegal. So think twice before you put on HIDs, SilverStars, or whatever.

 

wrong

 

gas mileage can and should improve with correctly setup intakes and exhausts as it makes the engine more efficient

 

oh and anything aft of the cat has nothig to do with C.A.R.B. just noise . NOTHING TO DO WITH EMISSIONS after the cat

 

Heh, also, know that in CA, there's a law in california concerning automotive muffler repair shops. They are forbidden from replacing a WORKING muffler with an "aftermarket" muffler that is "intended" to change the sound. They are supposed to only use OEM or equivalent replacement mufflers. How equivalent equivalent is is something I'm fuzzy on though.

Yeah, CAI, headers, mod chips, removing your air filters, straight pipe are all illegal. Check out;

http://www.chp.ca.gov/community/streetlegal.html

 

please note not all headers , cai's , and chips ARE illegal. A decent amount are legal. look for the CARB EO number

 

That's some of the dumbest stuff I've ever read. What ever though i'm gonna do what i want and if some ***** cop wants to ticket me than so be it.

You know of any?