Originally Posted by MrFatbooty
Yeah I guess maybe California has stupid laws.
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Luckily since I'm not in California I can convert it back to Federal emissions controls by getting a header and moving the oxygen sensors to be in front and behind the main cat in the midpipe.
By doing that I don't have the precat to die and the oxygen sensors are further downstream so they last longer.
But--I guess part of the reason California has such strict emissions controls because of places like LA which are covered in smog?
Basically, yes. There are still areas that have air quality problems. But the duty to clean up emissions needs to be made fair and just for all polluters.
Under CARB's reign, auto enthusiasts are unfairly targeted and over-regulated, while mass transit and heavy manufacturing industries are under-policed.
The other issue is the bureaucratic nature of CARB. Rather than staying on task and worrying about what comes out of the tailpipe, we are stuck with arbitrary laws that have no meaningful effect on cleaning up the environment.
The worst of which is the CARB Exemption Order process. A system designed solely to raise state revenue, manufacturers who don't recieve approval from CARB can still sell their parts in CA, but the consumer will automatically fail the visual inspection due to the lack of an E.O. number for the aftermarket part.
They won't even bother to run an emissions test.
AB2683 reinforced CARB's disfunctional bureaucracy.
And now it is law.