Getting Around CA Smog
Getting Around CA Smog Was wondering if anyone knows of any shops in the south bay that will be willing to overlook the visual. Heard it's kind of risky area to getting around. Want to put some LT's along w/ a few other bolt ons within the next month without having to worry about smog. Know pretty much everyone has there own hookup and may not want it public. PM me if anyone has a good answer... for the mean time I guess I may just have to search around the area (which will be a pain in da a**) but will be worth it in the long run.
YES. Shops will get fined $20,000 for doing this. 
No offense, but no one in their right mind would repley to this. I don't know how you are going to search around for this either. If you go and ask smog shops if they will overlook illegal mods they will answer NO. There are undercover people sent out to smog shops to do this very thing. They might even get mad at you for asking. Who is going to risk $20,000 to tell one customer "go ahead and bring your car in, we don't do a visual."
No offense, but no one in their right mind would repley to this. I don't know how you are going to search around for this either. If you go and ask smog shops if they will overlook illegal mods they will answer NO. There are undercover people sent out to smog shops to do this very thing. They might even get mad at you for asking. Who is going to risk $20,000 to tell one customer "go ahead and bring your car in, we don't do a visual."
Originally Posted by Redneck Z
YES. Shops will get fined $20,000 for doing this. No offense, but no one in their right mind would repley to this. I don't know how you are going to search around for this either. If you go and ask smog shops if they will overlook illegal mods they will answer NO. There are undercover people sent out to smog shops to do this very thing. They might even get mad at you for asking. Who is going to risk $20,000 to tell one customer "go ahead and bring your car in, we don't do a visual."
No offense, but no one in their right mind would repley to this. I don't know how you are going to search around for this either. If you go and ask smog shops if they will overlook illegal mods they will answer NO. There are undercover people sent out to smog shops to do this very thing. They might even get mad at you for asking. Who is going to risk $20,000 to tell one customer "go ahead and bring your car in, we don't do a visual." i don't see how you would get in trouble if you bought emission friendly lt's b/c a lot of places will just hook you to the sniffer w/o looking around. just be careful where you go.
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Originally Posted by Redneck Z
YES. Shops will get fined $20,000 for doing this. No offense, but no one in their right mind would repley to this. I don't know how you are going to search around for this either. If you go and ask smog shops if they will overlook illegal mods they will answer NO. There are undercover people sent out to smog shops to do this very thing. They might even get mad at you for asking. Who is going to risk $20,000 to tell one customer "go ahead and bring your car in, we don't do a visual."
No offense, but no one in their right mind would repley to this. I don't know how you are going to search around for this either. If you go and ask smog shops if they will overlook illegal mods they will answer NO. There are undercover people sent out to smog shops to do this very thing. They might even get mad at you for asking. Who is going to risk $20,000 to tell one customer "go ahead and bring your car in, we don't do a visual." I didnt know that it was that big of a deal. I though that it would be easy for him to find a shop that would overlook the visual. Man Cali has some gay emissions laws 
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What happens if you dont pass the visual? Do you get fined? Can you just go to another shop and hope they dont do the visual?
Ive done smog in CA once and I dont think they did the visual.
Ive done smog in CA once and I dont think they did the visual.
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It's all about who you know. Lots of people have been able to get around the CA smog. But once again, it's about who you know. You could always do a pretest and go from there. Some people have passed a real smog, eventhough they have LT's and other bolt-on's.
Originally Posted by M6HuggerSS
i just passed smog last week. piece of cake. 
Last edited by SS MPSTR; Jul 18, 2005 at 08:34 PM. Reason: added to post
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even the people that do have hook ups on smog..... i dont think are gonna tell anyone...thats how the place gets shut down more people go and more people....and there goes the hookup and the guys shop....
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even the people that do have hook ups on smog..... i dont think are gonna tell anyone...thats how the place gets shut down more people go and more people....and there goes the hookup and the guys shop....
Originally Posted by M6HuggerSS
it passed the sniffer with room to spare!
all i had to do was put in the FLP cats, and put back in my smog pump and that was it......
i have a buddy that did the smog. piece of cake!
all i had to do was put in the FLP cats, and put back in my smog pump and that was it......
i have a buddy that did the smog. piece of cake!
honestly i dont even think there is reason enought to go the illegal route anymore; with people like patrick and vortech proving 400rwhp can be had with an effient h/c package with stock manifolds and exhausts and 100% emissisons legal. not to mention the STS has a carb number and will provide more then enough power then what an smog illegal setup will do. or spend a bit more for a procharger P1.
hell, im changing my setup from a 12.1 forged race motor, with heads, huge cam, long tubes, true duals, !egr/!air ect. to an STS.
if you get picked for a test only place thats state run your **** out of luck unless you go completely back to stock.
hell, im changing my setup from a 12.1 forged race motor, with heads, huge cam, long tubes, true duals, !egr/!air ect. to an STS.
if you get picked for a test only place thats state run your **** out of luck unless you go completely back to stock.
