California Sux
 

Is this for real guys? If so, thank God I live in East Tennessee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCyMk...page=1&t=t&f=b

Not trying to start a fire storm here, but you can bet this will not be aimed at only ricers if it is for real.

Yeah but you have to admit the weather rocks
 

I don't think anything was very surprising to me in the video - maybe because it was made for the police, so that it comes across as more strict to the general public.

I found this for more official info:

http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aftermkt/aftermkt.htm

I don't know if other states do this, but in CA if you are putting an aftermarket part on an emissions controlled vehicle, the part has to have been approved by the ARB and will have an EO (executive order) number to prove it, so that it can be identified by inspections offices. Seems pretty straightforward to me - if you put an illegal (for off-road use only) part on your ('76 and newer? could be wrong here) car then you're breaking the law. I think if you don't submit to a search on your car for any reason then they can arrest/detain you.

Yes Bill, it’s for real. No, it isn’t anything new; we have had these laws in place for a couple years now. Yes, it will coming to a town near you soon. Its only aimed at the ricers until some idiot in an early Camaro decides to race one of the Hondas and kills somebody, than it will be directed at the muscle cars.

Tom, you are part right. Post 76 cars actually get smogged but no vehicle can have any part of its emissions system tampered with EVER, even the late 60's muscle cars. That is actually a federal law that affects EVERYBODY, we here in CA are the only ones who enforce it. BTW, camshafts are part of the emissions system for those interested, so are intakes, and carburetors, and ignition systems, and...

The part also has an EO number that APPLIES TO THAT VEHICLE. If you modify a part to fit your car than it doesn't apply. If you hop up an LSx series engine with EO parts and drop it in an early F body, those EO numbers do not apply to that car ergo are not legal parts. You do not want to mess with the CARB, they do not mess around and cannot be bribed, persuaded, pleaded with or anything else. The way it works is everything is illegal until you prove to them its not.

I have never seen where they the police have enforced this. Ever.

Yeah me either,I think it's something they can do if they want or need to.I have never seen them inspect and fail a pre 76 car either, but I am sure it has happend.

I know quite a few cops, and none of them know enough about cars to do this on site inspection, and none of them care too.

Yeah I agree with you,that video was shot in socal also its like another state lol.

Cops are pigs :D IMO ricers deserve all the crap they get. They street race slow piece's of crap and in danger people.

Yeah, true. No one cares in Norcal.

I have. A few times. I've also had a friend have this happen to him. He understood the reasoning, but didn't like that it happened to him.