I live in Cali so there is a pretty strict smog to pass. I will have to get shorty headers for the CARB#, but is it possible to get 94-95 shorties for my 96 and move the driver side cat down a little bit and still pass the visual inspection? Headers for 96-97 seem too restictive on the driver side because of the stock cat location. Has anyone tryed this. I was also told in Cali you can get special registration, have no smog, but you can only put 5K on your car a year. Does anyone know if this is true?

 

You will pass visual inspection as long as the guy checking it isn't some kind of expert...as long as he looks under there and 2 cats are in place, you should be fine. I too live here in Cali, but I have never heard of that special registration. If it turns out to be true, let me know!

 

Yeah, I don't know if that registration is true. I'm thinking of getting a PO Box in Mendecino county so I can run long tubes. I just thought it would be better if I did shorties.

 

they look to restrictive huh? tell that to my stock motored car (with 96-97 dual cat slps, a random tech y pipe, flowmaster catback and a CIA) thats running mid 8s@84 in the 1/8 with 2.oh 60fts.

 

Does your Random Tech Y-pipe have cats? It seems to me that the 94-95 shorties would be better since they don't have to bend all over the place in order to work with the stock driver side cat. That's all I'm saying. I never said that the 96-97s sucked.

 

my random tech pipe has cats. they have an off-road just like mine too. the stock 96-97 y pipe isnt a restriction until about 325rwhp.