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Originally Posted by jaedub Got my visit to ref due to my CBE. I swapped it back to stock and had them waive it. CA is a b!tch Just for

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Old 05-03-2016, 10:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Got my visit to ref due to my CBE. I swapped it back to stock and had them waive it. CA is a b!tch
Just for having a CBE? How did that happen?
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Just for having a CBE? How did that happen?
If you read the CA emission code, you can't modify exhaust for any reason even if is below 95 decibel. So yeah.....any aftermarket exhaust is illegal in CA.
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If you read the CA emission code, you can't modify exhaust for any reason even if is below 95 decibel. So yeah.....any aftermarket exhaust is illegal in CA.
I've run AM exhaust on just about every car I've ever owned and, I've never had a problem passing a smog check for having one. Even with AM headers.

Now, hi-flo cats? That's another story.
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I've run AM exhaust on just about every car I've ever owned and, I've never had a problem passing a smog check for having one. Even with AM headers.

Now, hi-flo cats? That's another story.
Passing the smog check has nothing to do with being legal. Once you swap any part of the exhaust with an aftermarket, it's illegal whether you pass the smog test or not.
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Passing the smog check has nothing to do with being legal. Once you swap any part of the exhaust with an aftermarket, it's illegal whether you pass the smog test or not.
Passing smog is the only thing that matters. Cats cant be modified but anything past them doesn't matter

Currently smogging my brothers supra, Failed the first time because the tech didn't understand that cars older then 1995 can have any air intake setup aslong as it keeps "emission controls", Failed second time because they made me wait over an hour and the cats were cold, Failed third because CEL came on.

Had to take off the methanol injection kit and add cats because california. My Z pulls harder than it now.
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Passing the smog check has nothing to do with being legal. Once you swap any part of the exhaust with an aftermarket, it's illegal whether you pass the smog test or not.
This is not true. Past the cats does not matter for smog.
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This is not true. Past the cats does not matter for smog.
You can pass emissions, but fail the visual.
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You can pass emissions, but fail the visual.
I am sorry to correct you, but a cat-back exhaust cannot cause a smog inspection failure -- even the visual.

I know this as fact and even verified this with my son who holds a CARB Smog License and performs smog checks for a living.
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spoke with the tech from the star smog station and was told that they only inspect up to the cats for visual.

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