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Racer
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From: Pensacola Florida
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OK Forum members , this may be a dumb question but the wife and I are going to be moving to California in about A year and I need a question answered.I want to put long tubes on my vet to go along with my Corsa cat-back and want to know if I am going to have any problem in Cal. I live in Florida and we dont have a vech. inspection and I think they do in Cal. I want to know if I am going to run into any problems with passing the inspection with the headers and cat-back. I will get a tune after the install so I just wanted to know what everyone thinks. Thanks in advance for any advice giving.
Drifting
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From: Hopatcong New Jersey
Even with shorties you have to make sure they have a CARB EO# or they will fail, and IMHO for the small improvement you'd get with shorties it probably wouldn't be worth the hassle swapping them out every time you need to get inspected.
Drifting
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From: Colorado
ya, meant swapping his existing long tubes out. i think i'd rather pull my fingernails off than do that annually, but its an option. sounds kind of funny to the rest of us, but its not unheard of for people in cali to get superchargers/turbochargers that ARE legal out there, and have to run the poor bastards out a factory exhaust.
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move to MO
In Missouri, if you live in a heavily populated area that has Emissions Testing and drive your vehicle less than 12,000 miles every 2 years (that is the Safety inspection frequency), you can get an Emissions waiver from the Dept. of Natural Resources and skip the $24.00 Emissions fee also. I have 3 vehicles (2000, 2002, 2005) that have not had emissions tested since the were new.
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In Missouri, if you live in a heavily populated area that has Emissions Testing and drive your vehicle less than 12,000 miles every 2 years (that is the Safety inspection frequency), you can get an Emissions waiver from the Dept. of Natural Resources and skip the $24.00 Emissions fee also. I have 3 vehicles (2000, 2002, 2005) that have not had emissions tested since the were new.
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to the OP: in the history of longtube headers, theres never been a legal way to do them in CA.