California and high flow cats

SPDKING · 03-22-2019, 12:59 PM

Reviving this thread, so there are currently no CARB legal High Flow Cats out there for California? If not, my next question is, does anyone know someone (in the Los Angeles Area preferably the west side) that can "take a look" at my HFCs. I know smog is usually 50 bucks but I'm willing to pay a little more to make sure they are "legal".

redondoaveb · 03-22-2019, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SPDKING

Reviving this thread, so there are currently no CARB legal High Flow Cats out there for California? If not, my next question is, does anyone know someone (in the Los Angeles Area preferably the west side) that can "take a look" at my HFCs. I know smog is usually 50 bucks but I'm willing to pay a little more to make sure they are "legal".

Most places won't do a visual under the car and if they do most won't be able to tell if they are high flow and won't even care. As stated above, there is no sniffer test, just obd 2. As long as there are no codes and it shows all monitors are ready then it'll pass. That's all the smog places are looking for, their *** is covered.

SPDKING · 03-22-2019, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by redondoaveb

Most places won't do a visual under the car and if they do most won't be able to tell if they are high flow and won't even care. As stated above, there is no sniffer test, just obd 2. As long as there are no codes and it shows all monitors are ready then it'll pass. That's all the smog places are looking for, their *** is covered.

So what places in LA have you taken your's too that you passed? Anyone else in LA please chime in. I legit took mine to a smog place in Venice on Lincoln Blvd and the guy immediately failed me even though I'm not throwing any codes or smells because it's a Fast Intentions HFC

redondoaveb · 03-22-2019, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by SPDKING

So what places in LA have you taken your's too that you passed? Anyone else in LA please chime in. I legit took mine to a smog place in Venice on Lincoln Blvd and the guy immediately failed me even though I'm not throwing any codes or smells because it's a Fast Intentions HFC

I bought my z new so it wouldn't need to be smogged for a few more years if I still had it. With all the mods I had done they wouldn't have needed to look under it to tell that it wasn't legal.

I have a 1999 Eclipse that actually requires the sniffer test. It has a catback, cai and msd coil. The cai and msd coil both need carb certification and I have stickers for both. When I take it in for testing, not once have any of the places I've taken it to looked under the car. They asked for the carb stickers, stuck the probe in the exhaust tailpipe and hooked up their obd 2 tester and that was it. I'm in the Redondo Beach/Torrance area.

SPDKING · 03-24-2019, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by redondoaveb

I bought my z new so it wouldn't need to be smogged for a few more years if I still had it. With all the mods I had done they wouldn't have needed to look under it to tell that it wasn't legal.

I have a 1999 Eclipse that actually requires the sniffer test. It has a catback, cai and msd coil. The cai and msd coil both need carb certification and I have stickers for both. When I take it in for testing, not once have any of the places I've taken it to looked under the car. They asked for the carb stickers, stuck the probe in the exhaust tailpipe and hooked up their obd 2 tester and that was it. I'm in the Redondo Beach/Torrance area.

Yeah I'm out in Santa Monica, so then I can pass, just take it to a different smog place is what you're saying?

redondoaveb · 03-24-2019, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by SPDKING

Yeah I'm out in Santa Monica, so then I can pass, just take it to a different smog place is what you're saying?

If you want to come down to Torrance I can give you the address of the last place I took my eclipse. It's right next door to the place that built my z (L-Spec Auto). You can stop in and see what they're up to while your car is getting smogged.

SPDKING · 03-25-2019, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by redondoaveb

If you want to come down to Torrance I can give you the address of the last place I took my eclipse. It's right next door to the place that built my z (L-Spec Auto). You can stop in and see what they're up to while your car is getting smogged.

For sure, message me the address

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SPDKING Base Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 207 Drives: 14' Nissan 370Z SP Rep Power: 2000	Reviving this thread, so there are currently no CARB legal High Flow Cats out there for California? If not, my next question is, does anyone know someone (in the Los Angeles Area preferably the west side) that can "take a look" at my HFCs. I know smog is usually 50 bucks but I'm willing to pay a little more to make sure they are "legal".