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Originally Posted by Double Phister
There are zero CARB EO'd downpipes for Subarus. I'd be all over one. There are issues with replacing a working cat. The only cats that are on the exemption list are universal. A bunch of the EO#s were recinded not too long ago. Cats that go through the exemption process cannot use any wording that implies higher performance like "hi-flow" so that probably keeps the Cobbs of the world out of it.
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God CA is stupid.
Here's the way the law should work: "Modification of *any* emissions related equipment requires yearly tail-pipe smog checks on a dyno under load".
So, if you don't want the hassle every year, leave your car bone stock. But if you want to mod it(or have to replace a cat on an old car), you can do *anything* you want as long as the car isn't polluting. Plus, you stimulate the economy by adding to the number of people paying for smog checks every year as all the "tuners" pay-to-play. And finally, you prevent most of the people that pollute for years at a time with their catless exhausts that are going back to stock for just the weekend when they get checked because they have to get checked every year (so they would hopefully get a hi-flow cat installed that passes the sniffer).
It's win-win-win... but CA is retarded.