I think we should get rid of all SMOG and all health regulations! Just like Mexico does! Man I love going down to TJ on the weekends and run my cars without caring about pollution!... What? the car has a misfire? **** it, their aint no smog rules here! LOL..... What, that diesel truck is running rich as hell?, who cares! That aint affecting my breathing!....What? Some 17 year old kid wants to run his ricer-car rich as heck cause he thinks its faster? Who cares!!!! That black smoke coming out his pipe is proof the horsepower has doubled!!!
I think the formula the gov uses is = more people= more cars= less land= more pollution per sq foot. Yeah Texas has little SMOG laws but your neighbor is like miles away not like here where we had idiots trying to mod their cars and end up causing more pollution than horsepower gains. Only about 10% of the people that mod their cars actually know what they are doing! So sad......
I love when people automatically go all the way to the "Let's get rid of all the smog and health regulations". I would not want to get rid of all smog and health regulations, I want a more sane approach to them. Sanity is something these greenie zealots that run CA don't have a lot of.
The formula the government uses has a lot more $ in it. How much does it cost to have a part certified through CARB? Who benefits when you buy a new car? It stopped being about the enviroment a long time ago.
Lou is right, these cars are 25 years old and they are tightening down the standards on them. That is wrong.
How much smog are they getting rid of by making it harder for our cars to pass?
How much enviromental impact does that new car they want to force us in to cause compared to the smog avoided by forcing these cars off the road?
How about we have limited use plates like other states for cars that see under a certain milage per year and have more lienient standards for them?
How about if I have my 3" DP with a CAT that it doesn't get questioned as long as it blows under the required number?
How about if I put long tube headers on a car with cat's and blow clean being legal?
I throw a LSx motor in the car with all the smog stuff (my 2001 Z06 didn't have a EGR or smog pump), toss a turbo on that and blow clean why isn't that legal?
Why isn't it smog leagal to run a alky system on my car?
Your never going to stop the 17 year old or the Diesel driver they do that anyways, always have and always will.
CA isn't Obama's fault, CA has been a loony bin for a long time. There is a reason a ton of businesses have moved out of CA, most of them have to do with the state government.