Originally Posted by B18C Turbo
this sounds kinda wierd. My best friend lives in Sacremento and has a daily driven 89 crx with a b16a1, custom turbo kit, crower turbo cams, cam gears, fpr, uberdata tuned, no cat, 2.5" turbo back exhaust. He has no problems w/ police, and gives the smog ref $100 to pass it everytime. No troubles.
Well, your friend and the guy he's paying off will be in a LOT of trouble when CARB finds out about this. Fines and jail sentences are not out of the question.
It's bad enough that he's not running a cat. :down:
Plenty of high-flow cats are affordable and available.
IMO, it's very irresponsible to not run a cat on a street-driven car.
And as long as people aren't willing to help control emissions on their own, the state will continue to dictate what we can and cannot do. The current laws are ridiculous, I agree. But the more that people ignore them, the more tight-assed our laws will become.