To be clear ; it's Kaalifohnia ! , just as our former governor ( Ahhnold ) would pronounce it. Anyone shortening the state's name to save a few letters is a girlie man !
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On the above note, I wonder what Caitlin Jenner calls California wait, what was this thread about again - oh yeah, smog tests in our golden ( now more of a dry brown than golden.. ) state. I dont think we have to worry about our 968s passing no matter how much stricter emissions thresholds may become, here or any other states . These cars run so clean and so far below the allowable levels , you'd have to remove the cat converter to make them fail. And I'm not even sure about that, lol - has anyone tested the emissions without a converter ? flash indicates it will definitely fail, but is that in theory only, or was this based on an actual test ?
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Most if not all of the approved " Star " smog test stations in Cali ( just kidding, calm down :-) ) in California, have cameras installed with direct feed into the State regulatory agency to assure the testers follow each and every required step of the test precisely how the state dictates, including checking under the car to assure the catalytic pipe is OE. Now, there is no way for the state to verify if the technician knows an OE cat from an after-market cat, or for that matter a bypass pipe made to look like a cat, assuming the welding is so well done it looks like a factory set up , so if the car passes - no harm no foul , but if you fail then what ?!
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Wow... drove mine in, they hooked it up, took the gas cap (which I hadn't seen them do before) checked that it was correct I guess, did the test, ran it twice and came back with the results... didn't have any modifications other than eliminating the central muffler... came out clean and I didn't do anything special. No tune up, nothing.
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Quote:Had the DD smog-tested today ( clean as a whistle, just as expected ) and while I was waiting and talking to one of the two technicians I was informed that the Sate of Ca is considering abandoning the requirement to smog-test any vehicle older than 20 years. Currently only cars older than 1975 are exempt.
Apparently there are too few cars on the road of that age for the Sate to make enough money on certificates to cover the cost of managing the system . The threshold is said to be 5% cars in use, when it drops below that the State supposedly will waive the smog requirement . Nomidea what stats one can find out there but according to the info this guy gets from the state the number of cars older than 1995 is already below that 5 % mark . That surprises me, I thought we ( as in Californians ) hang on to our old cars a lot longer ..
That is the deal we have here, anything pre-obdII is exempt, so I think that covers all 968s, My buddy with his 1997 993 just missed the cut off
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wait, what was this thread about again - oh yeah, smog tests in our golden ( now more of a dry brown than golden.. ) state. I dont think we have to worry about our 968s passing no matter how much stricter emissions thresholds may become, here or any other states . These cars run so clean and so far below the allowable levels , you'd have to remove the cat converter to make them fail. And I'm not even sure about that, lol - has anyone tested the emissions without a converter ? flash indicates it will definitely fail, but is that in theory only, or was this based on an actual test ? 
