Enthusiasts Against Visual Inspection

[iamane30m20nut]

As someone who is adamantly opposed to both the CARB's exempting process and the subsequent need for visual inspections, I have decided to start a petition. The final wording will be drawn up later, but I want to know who's for an anti-visual-inspection petition; you must be of legal voting age or will be of age by November. Please send your name and city (in California, please) to my yahoo address, SOneThreeCoupe@yahoo.com. I am planning on sending the final draft of the petition to both the SEMA Action Network (of which I am a member) and to Governor Schwarzenegger himself. Maybe we can work together to rid this state's emission testing of unneeded and frankly stupid laws. Thank you.

[Jordan]

good luck w/ that

[bimmerphile]

purpose being what? If you run without a cat, you still won't pass CARB...

[iamane30m20nut]

The purpose is to remind Schwarzenegger that the visual inspection law is unnecessary. All that should be required is that the car passes the smog test, not that aftermarket companies have to pay to fill the CARB's coffers just to get legalized. This way, enthusiasts simply have to worry about passing the smog test, not shopping around the more expensive vendors and/or breaking the law just to eke out a few more horsepower. We won't have to worry about police pulling us over, checking under our hood, and spending too much time on picking out violations rather than pulling over bad drivers, street racers, and generally doing police things. I don't care if they check for cats, but they should let us choose our own intakes, exhaust, cams, turbo kits, headers, ignition, etc... as long as we pass smog. That's all I ask from the government.

[Rob]

cali sucks, i'm glad i dont live there. besides, arent a large majority of mod tickets given in conjunction with other offenses, such as bad driving, etc?

[Jon325i]

Being a lifelong resident of the Peoples Republic of California, I like this idea. And it really makes sense too. One great example of the silliness that's going on here when you go to get your car smogged....

You could pull your stock-engined E30 up to a SMOG test facility, get your car on the rollers, have it spew out nothing but acceptable numbers, have all the other equipment requirements met, yet have your car labeled as "failed" due to the fact that you decided to bolt on a K&N cone filter unit in place of your stock airbox. No shit.....its happened (not to me....but someone I know). Talk about rediculous.

Another example is CIA for E36 cars. As you know the aftermarket vendors have made this widely available......yet there's only one on the market (to my knowledge) that has CARB certification (i.e. an Exemption Order #)....and that product comes from Dinan. Not exactly the cheapest CIA out there....but that's because Steve Dinan had to bend over and grab his ankles in order to market this product in CA...which is why his performance stuff is so pricy.

The whole thing is a f-ing sham from state beauracrats.

Jon

[Jand3rson]

Wow, this sounds like a monumental waste of time.

[jflower]

just an FYI, ECIS intakes are also CARB certified. as of about 4 months ago.

good luck changing the laws tho. i'm a pessimist.

[Bryson]

Not gonna happen, although it would be a huge benefit to me if it did. I have no idea how I'm going to pass smog with a 24v stroker turbo in an e30 :roll:
Toss in the m20 every time it need to be smogged
at least the m50 swap looks stock enough to pass visual inspecting tards :D (way too lazy to go to a referee)

[M-technik-3]

Be glad you don't live in Japan. When you need to get JCI (Japanese Cumplusay Insurance) everything has to be stock and they pick throu the car if you are a Gajin foreigner residing there.

At least that is the way it was when I lived there in the 90's.

And don't get me started on TUV......

[Erick]

With all of the pollution issues in CA, I dont see how you could get anything accomplished that goes against smog in anyway.

[M-technik-3]

I do agree that if your car has aftermarket stuff without carb approval and it passes the sniffer test and emissions, then it should be good to go.