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Tuning in California Just Got Harder
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You do not live in a desert naturally. Everyone living in SoCal must move to the East or North and stop extorting the leftover water. Or stop complaining about anything and everything. That’s what i have read in some scientific magazine years ago. Go figure… |
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It only sucks if you're poor.
From my experience, CA is ideal for car enthusiasts. It's the only state I've ever lived and owned cars in, but in 20 years of car ownership, I've never* been required to have any of my cars inspected, tested, or had any regulatory body dictate what I can and can't do. I've always modded them as I pleased to any degree I want. Half of them don't have cats. Then you hear about annual inspections in flyover states where people scramble every year trying to swap their downpipes or ECU tune back to stock...yet CA sucks for cars? *I said never, but that was until last year when I bought a used car for the first time. CA does require used cars bought from out-of-state to get a smog check. |
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that does suck.
especially for guys with heavy mods like aftermarket turbos that require an aftermarket tune to run correctly and not throw codes. even if they have carb certified cats and puts out clean exhaust it will still flag due to the non oem tune.
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My car is full FBO+(inlets,outlets), Flex fuel with hybrid turbos and I have no issues with smog, I just put on stock down pipes and flash back to stock, I pass smog with no issues. |
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CA has its quirks and it’s share of problems, but the hate it gets is just laughable. There’s a reason it’s one of the biggest economies in the world and the most populated state… and people ain’t leaving in caravans. For all its frustrations there is still no other place to live like it, and bar none, it has the best car culture of any state even in spite of SMOG requirements.
Now do I have my issues with CA? Of course, as does every Californian, but I’m not under any false impressions of how great of a place it is to be. Don’t buy into the media hype about it being a wasteland
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This law is going to be really annoying.
California is very far away from being a utopia but it's also miles better than the rest of the US. Why would California have the highest GDP and largest population if it sucked as much as the anti California crowd says it does? |
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Sure, regulations are bad, but like stated, nothing a quick return to stock won't fix. And the roads in CA are better than anywhere else. I miss the roads as much as the weather. I'd move back in a second.
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