When the smog checks hit
 

I wonder how many people will be trying to sell their turbo kits or their non-carb legal supercharger kits when our cars hit 5 years old (2018 for 2013's) also by then I wonder how much the price of the kits will go down by. I know we have several people in the norcal section who have SBD turbo kits. Better invest in a smog hookup within the next 2 years before us 2013's start to get smogged.

Smog hook ups are NOT cheap lol. . .

I'm just worried about voiding warranty, so I'm hesitant on aftermarket parts.

My worry level on this is right at no fucks given........
Aaaaaaaannd that's me trolling......

Yeah yeah yeah... we ALL know. :lol:


I bet you that 99% of the people on this forum wished they had your hook-up.

There are probably more catless headers than non-CARB legal FI kits floating around out there.

The 'help my car won't pass smog whyyyyy?' posts should be fun from 2nd, 3rd, Nth owners with great follow up posts like 'ugh my car sounds lame now'

Catless header is a little bit easy to get away with. Just swap the oem header before your smog. I know swapping headers isn't always the easiest thing in the world but hey, wanna pass smog don't you?

It'll be a lot harder for people with FI set-ups to just swap it back to stock for smog

aaaaaand that's why I'd be going with a CARB legal setup. :paddle:

With age comes wisdom my friend ;)

If I go FI, I'm going with either a Jackson Racing S/C or Edelbrock S/C. Both CARB legal kits.

I keep waiting for one to fail in CARB legal trim, but in ~3 years I think I'll be getting one of the two, while expensive at $5k/80whp, it's hard to ignore a ~50% power increase that's legal, hasn't sacrificed reliability, and can be installed DIY.

:drool:

:burnrubber:

I have no crazy hook up. Just join the military.

But believe I'll be there to swoop up all the non carb legal FI kits and headers when smog days do come.......

lots of time
 

Think of it as an opportunity to rebuild the blower...

And bust a few knuckles on the uninstall-reinstall stock- uninstall stock- re-install the boost...

Yep, I'm in the same boat. I may either do it 2-3 years, most likely 3, when the warranty is up on my car.

Easiest and less headache is to stick with CARB legal FI. Even though it won't make as much power as the turbo kits, it's CARB legal.

Works has a CARB legal turbo kit. The issue is that the tune needs to be certified as well, not sure if you could tune a CARB legal kit for more power and still pass, there is headroom on the superchargers from the CARB trim.

Easy fix spend $200 bucks on an extra ecu and swap when time to smog, so many of these cars are hitting the junkyard that they are pretty cheap

SC10N driver

I like how many people are buying catted headers that aren't carb legal

SC10N driver

Maybe they don't want a loud exhaust. . .

Do they make CARB legal headers?

For our cars, not that I know of.

That's kinda contradicting. CARB requires that OEM cats be retained, which all the CARB FI options do.

That's what resonators and mufflers are for

SC10N driver

Maybe I'm just old, but with stock exhaust and just an axle-back, my exhaust was loud for me. Switched back to stock.

I get you. I run an HKS Legamax Sports, thing is quieter than stock. but that's why I said mufflers and resonators, they keep the noise and restrictions down

SC10N driver

I used to run a cut up stock muffler and deleted resonator only growled on the cold start and hard acceleration but quite during my daily 45 mile commute

SC10N driver

Once you have kids you realize a car without emissions equipment isn't a good thing.

I'm no crazy environmentalist, but when you see what ZERO emissions policies do in China (e.g. you literally can't breathe in the air), buying a CARB legal kit makes a lot of sense.

Yup that's why I'm sitting here waiting on my WORK's stage 2 CARB legal kit to ship

SC10N driver