[quote=bearishgurl][quote=spdrun]Too much money in it not to have duplicate bureaucracies. Someone is making money certifying the parts for CA use, not to mention selling the certified parts for an inflated price.
The ironic thing is that I actually see more smoky clunkers on the road in CA than around NYC. Not sure if safety inspection gets rid of the worst of the worst, or if they simply die due to rust before they can turn into smoking messes.[/quote]
I don’t believe pre-1973 vehicles have to be “smogged” in CA and we don’t have “safety inspections” per se (any Pigg correct me if I’m wrong here).[/quote]Correct. From what I remember for CA, it is 1975 and earlier. 1976 and later have to be sniffed. It originally was idle test, then high/low idle, then dyno was added later.
The smokey clunkers are interesting. If it is blue smoke, it is burning oil and interestingly, that does not get picked up on the tests – including hydro-carbon test. I guess because it is a heavy hydro-carbon not a light aromatic which means it probably gets filtered out in the test unit’s protective filters. It could also be that these cars are from outside CA, or are in areas that are not required to have smog tests for registration (tests are only required in smog impacted areas).
