My understanding of our restrictive smog rules, is that you can not install anything that will alter or bypass the smog equipment that has been installed in your car. You can install a CAI and Exhaust, as long as it has a CARB number, which means it has been approved by the state to be used without adversely affecting the car's ability to conform to California's strict emission standards. So call up the manufacturers of your mods and start asking for their CARB numbers, if available, if so available ask them for the hood plate so that you can install it on the hood so that the referee can see that the part has been accepted by California. My suggestion is, anything that you have installed save for the software update, APR claims to be smog friendly...get the CARB number, if not, remove it until the referee passes your car.
Those of you being judgmental about this great state of ours, you need to understand the reason you have it much easier than we do. Thanks mostly to Southern California and their over abundance of cars. They actually have more cars than people, in the tens of millions. Compare that to your state's total population? They are strict to maintain our air quality and help slow or stop the progression of Global Climate Change. Which, I think most of us have now accepted as reality. With this said, we have strict laws that were passes by its citizens, and are being enforced by our excellent LEO's.
This is a great state, the climate is moderate, SF for instance, outside of a couple of days (like 5 days) in the summer in which it hits 90's, maintains a 60 F temperature year-around, thanks mostly thanks to the marine layer which calms things down. California, has the 7th largest economy in the world! California has laws friendly to the civil rights of its citizens and our employment laws are amongst the best in the union. We still have a 8 hour work day for the non-exempts, while most of the country is at the Federal level of 40 hour work weeks. Meaning non-exempts make OT after 8 hours, without having to have worked 40 hours. We make the employee lunch breaks mandatory of at least 30 minutes in the middle of the workday. We have a State minimum wage $8.00 per hour, vs the Federal $6.55 an hour.
Knock it all you want about how strict it is on what we can change on our cars, which is really not that bad as long as you have the CARB number...but I don't think California "sucks" as you guys like to say. I've been to many other states in the Union and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else!
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