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I had the windows down, she was giving it all it had. It wasn't a "fast" Civic or anything, not saying it was a Type-R lol. Just a run of the mill Civic.
Yeah, she was just driving to the grocery store lol.
It really isn’t in CA. Modded cars are everywhere. Mine is 90% legal and the 10% is because the front side windows are tinted. The tint isn’t dark. I drive pretty conservatively and driving like an a hole is what gets unwanted attention from law enforcement.
My YouTube feed has been showing me videos of guys in CA getting "State Reffed". I never heard of it until about a week ago. CA cops seem really strict on exhausts.
I'm certainly not going to defend everything California does, and I have never been a fan of the way the state is run. But, in all fairness, there is sometimes at least some reason to their madness. Once the soot and smoky air around the Pittsburgh region was cleaned up in the 1960s and 1970s from the steel mills, the Los Angeles region, with its notorious brown haze/smog inversion-layer, became what was arguably the most polluted region in the country....mostly from vehicle-traffic, not industry or mills. Even today, while much better than in the 1970s, smog still remains a problem in that region.
I'll never understand the people that race to a solid red light. You're right, it's always a Rogue/Compass/Eclipse Cross etc.
It's really funny because they will take the smallest gap past you and just end up slightly ahead, had that happen yesterday in traffic with an old accord and newer kia. As soon we got past the point of congestion I just left them 4 lights behind and got to enjoy watching them struggle to try and catch up.
They never did by the time I turned off for home lol!
If you have a loud exhaust you should have a valve system to switch from loud to silent depending on where you are IMO
As I recall, the Dodge Stealth/Mitsubishi 3000GT sports car of the 1990s had a button on the dash that (more or less) did that....varied the exhaust-tone.
My YouTube feed has been showing me videos of guys in CA getting "State Reffed". I never heard of it until about a week ago. CA cops seem really strict on exhausts.
Yes, they are strict on cars with loud exhaust. Harleys do get a pass. A ref ticket is a PITA. People who get them have to prove the issue was corrected and the car basically stays on the radar forever making it difficult to register. Exhaust, big intercoolers, bigger turbos, and turbos on cars that didn’t come with them from the factory are common violations that get people ref tickets. My car doesn’t have any of those things and none of the cars before this one did either.
I have a TRD header on my 4AG-E that is on an engine stand and not in the car. I bought it because it was the only one in the country and the Toyota dealer in Long Beach had it. It is not CARB certified which means smog certificates would always be a problem. I am just putting the factory manifold on and run that to avoid the hassle.
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