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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 10:34 PM
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Since I am new here and can't post on parts wanted... Does anyone have headers that are ca legal?? Or can recommend ones that are legal
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 10:38 PM
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What do you drive, what year?
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Old Dec 10, 2010 | 09:35 AM
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The only legal headers in CA are shorties that don't relocate the factory cats.

I have JBA shorties on my car, which are smog legal.

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Pacesetter Mid Length (shorties) are legal also.
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Whoever told you that is wrong, they won't pass the visual inspection due to relocating the factory cats, and they don't have a CARB ID#.

Shorties fit in front of the factory cat locations and do not relocate them - and not even all shorties have a CARB ID# to make them smog legal in CA.

...not to say you can't pass the sniffer with midlength or longube headers, of course. They will just fail the visual.


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Old Dec 10, 2010 | 12:03 PM
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^^^ Rob is correct


however, I personally think you should save your money and keep the stock headers on if you want to stay legal. Shorties barely give you any power gains and are crazy expensive. I can buy some longtubes for cheaper than the shorties...

Rob (Bad30th) is supercharged if I remember correctly so in his case it doesn't hurt... but if your stock save your money and use it elsewhere. Or just get some LT's...
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Pacesetter calls it's shorties, "Mid Length". They are 50 state legal, that's a fact.
Maybe they weren't before but they are now.

pt#70-1348 is the painted shorties for a 98-99 LS1 F-body, and pt#72C1348 is the ceramic coated version.

The Edelbrock TES, and the Hooker shorties also have EO#'s

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Those Pacesetters do have a CARB ID # so they should be OK in CA :

http://arb.ca.gov/msprog/aftermkt/de...eo/D-439-7.pdf

They can call them "midlengths" but they don't relocate the factory cats, which is the requirement :



These are true midlengths (these are MAC midlengths, which relocate the cats) :



If in doubt, ask a smog tech, or take a look at the CARB website :

http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/aftermk...es/amquery.php


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