Can I pass smog in CA with...

[SailingFC@aol.com (SailingFC@aol.com)]

I recently had my 78 smogged and didn't have a problem with a header on.   I 
even have it wrapped with the insulating material and he didn't seem to care 
about it.  He looked underneath and saw the cat, even though it hangs lower 
than stock and didn't say a thing.  My setup has flanges on the cat as well 
as a ball joint swivel at the end of the header, they said nothing.

Don't you have the BAR decal on your car?  Can you say that the BAR signed it 
off the way it is?  Seems like if you could, you could almost have any 
configuration of cat and get away with it.

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
http://members.aol.com/sailingfc/



In a message dated 5/17/02 5:29:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
rocco16v@netzero.com writes:

> Question for everyone.
>
> I'm planning on ordering a complete TT exhaust for my 16V once I pass smog
> once again in a month or so. I'm going to install the dual downpipe and
the
> 2 1/4 cat-back system.
>
> Since I'm in California I was planning on taking all that off once every
two
> years to pass smog again, but then I started thinking. If I have flanges
> welded in so I can just swap a test pipe in and out with my cat, do you
> think I will pass smog out here? I know officially the DP isn't cab-legal,
> but I doubt I would fail on a visual because of that. I'll still have a
cat
> and an O2 sensor.
>
> Any ideas?