Cheat Smog??
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,201
Likes: 14
From: Honolulu, HI
Running without cats in Cali is just asking for it.
Best bet is to register the car in a exempt county, or maybe find a friendly smog tester will over look the visual violations since you've passed the sniffer(hopefully). You'd have to be pretty chum with the guy to have him try and fudge the sniffer test portion!
Best bet is to register the car in a exempt county, or maybe find a friendly smog tester will over look the visual violations since you've passed the sniffer(hopefully). You'd have to be pretty chum with the guy to have him try and fudge the sniffer test portion!
Instructor
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 143
Likes: 1
From: sacramento ca
i just wanted to throw the environmentalist aspect on it 
, what about the air quality of ca? sure chopping off the cats will make ur car louder and probably end up throwing more crapp out the back that you have to wash off your vette's tail, but it will release even more co2 into california. i dont know about you but clean air is important to me especially when its its not so great to begin with, as are most places in cali.
spare the earth
, what about the air quality of ca? sure chopping off the cats will make ur car louder and probably end up throwing more crapp out the back that you have to wash off your vette's tail, but it will release even more co2 into california. i dont know about you but clean air is important to me especially when its its not so great to begin with, as are most places in cali.spare the earth
Safety Car
Joined: May 2000
Posts: 4,811
Likes: 344
From: Albuquerque NM
If you want to spare the earth and clean the air then get just one of the blue smoke puking, barely running, junkers off the street. That'll be like taking one thousand clear running, well tuned, catless LS!/6 cars off the road.
BTW: With a careful tune you CAN pass the sniffer without cats. Not easy, but can be done. A tuner friend did it with his '99 Vette.
BTW: With a careful tune you CAN pass the sniffer without cats. Not easy, but can be done. A tuner friend did it with his '99 Vette.
Instructor
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 180
Likes: 0
From: Vallejo CA
I have had my own issues w smog testing but I don't like brown air either. As with all of life, trade offs.
And at least in the bay area there is a number to call and get those smoking clunkers off the street:
1-800-EXHAUST.
And at least in the bay area there is a number to call and get those smoking clunkers off the street:
1-800-EXHAUST.
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