Mods people in Cali are doing?

[Bonafide_Spd3]

Cool, how far away are you from stockton? I definetly want to meet up with some people at a meet to bs with. Learn more about my car and what not. I don't think my wife would go because she isn't really into that. Do people normally take their girls at the meets?

 

[RADAR THIS]

about two hours from the bay area...

 

[FMOS Racing]

We'll be moving by stockton/lodi area. I was there a couple months ago and didn't see any speed3 out there. Thanks again for all the info

I'm out in Oakdale, about 20 miles east of Stockton, and there's two MS3s, a silver and a teal, in town there. My silver should be joining them soon.

As long as your car has the manufacturer's CA emissions stickers on it, they won't smog the car for 5 years - thought they may on entry. After that it's every two years.

My MS3 isn't CA legal according to the documentation and the under-hood plaques so I'm not sure what I'll have to do if I end up moving.

 

[FMOS Racing]

And even if your car passes smog emissions... if it doesnt have the stupid CARB decals they will fail you on visual. I failed because I had a high flow cat back in 2005, and my stock one had given out so I wasn't about to spend $600 on a dealership cat when a high flow was like $250.

I built my small block truck (turbocharged small block, about 850 hp, runs 10.80s) to run clean. If you never opened the hood, just stuck the sniffer in the pipe, it blew 0s on a lot of things and half what the average passenger car does on HCs. Unfortunately, the smog nazis got me with a "Test Only" SMOG II test and of course all the custom plumbing failed visual. Talk about... hmmm... annoyed.

Have to feed the bureaucracy I guess but that struck me as extremely unfair. So, when (if) I move back, I'll ditch the turbo setup and just stick a EO'ed Vortech or something on it and go slower.

 

[Bonafide_Spd3]

That sucks, I might just have to end up waiting til I move outta cali in 6 yrs when I get out there. Atleast my warrenty will be up. But dang, my car will have like 70k or more