In California, it just really isn't worth having a modded car any longer. This state really knows how to take the fun out.
Jeff
In California, it just really isn't worth having a modded modern* car any longer.
Fixed that for ya. Meanwhile you can have a 1975 or older anything, with whatever modern engine you want, with zero limitations. Full tube chassis cars are out on the streets with twin turbo LS's, air conditioning, cruise control, and heated seats to boot.
CARB is a complete scam. Every other state / county in the entire country has a 25 year rule in place, in CA we are smogging 43 year old cars. We don't even safety checks our cars... why is it a 43 year old car would need to pass a sniffer for smog but you don't look for rust or even check if the brakes work? Seems legit.
To put things in perspective, in the past 5 years ~30% of ALL commuter vehicles and nearly 80% of all taxi cabs have been replaced by electric or electric hybrids, and of the gasoline cars left the majority have moved to pzev. But.. you know... that less then 1% of people daily driving those 1976 VW air cooled beetles better cough up the clean smog reports.
My suggestion, buy a sliver of land in a no smog county with a mailbox on it and register everything there.