Catco's legal in Cali?

[Takumi Fujiwara]

I was lookin at getting a catco high flow, but Ive heard some ppl dont pass emisions - I guess do to the flow rate. My car passed perfectly about a month or so ago so Im not really worried about it but I dont wanna have to swap back when I cant pass - we do a visual inspection here as well. Anyone know of a place I can find out if its legal. I dislike going to the muffler place here to ask. They are jerks and I told them to die when they said 400 for install for my heades and they remember me =)

[speedy-v6-camaro]

Replacing stock cats in cali is illegal no matter what. You can't replace it if you want it to remain legal.

[F1GT]

Replacing stock cats in Cali is not illegal. If it's broken or over certain amount of miles(70 or 80k, i think), you can replace it. As for Hi-Flows, I do believe it's illegal. If a shop visually inspects it b4 the smog and sees it, they'll refuse to do it. But other places don't care.
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[PewterBird]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by F1GT:
Replacing stock cats in Cali is not illegal. If it's broken or over certain amount of miles(70 or 80k, i think), you can replace it. As for Hi-Flows, I do believe it's illegal. If a shop visually inspects it b4 the smog and sees it, they'll refuse to do it. But other places don't care.
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50,000 miles ;)

[Takumi Fujiwara]

yeah Im @ 60k so I figured I could sneak it by. Thanks guys. Im gonna look more into it with this info

[F1GT]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by PewterBird:


50,000 miles ;) <hr></blockquote>

Kewl, thx for refreshing my bad memory.

I actually replaced my Cat at the beginning of December, a few months back. It was broken, rattling like a mo fo for several months b4 it finally broke down to the pt of replacement. I had to do all this research to see if it's still waranteed(sp?) and all. The muffler shop put in a 3" GM universal cat. I wanted a Catco 6007. But didn't have time to order and I didn't want to deal with the SES and smog probs and 02 simms.

I paid 300 for the cat and install. YES it is $$$ compared to a catco + install. I know it was not worth it right when they told me, but I had to do it because I needed to pick up my friends' from the airport, so I said screw it!!! It was clogged so bad I couldn't accelerate and when I go up a slight incline on a freeway, my car went down to 35mph!!!!!!!!