California smog analysis, ask a smog tech

[Lon Moer]

- can I pass the visual with a CAI set-up if all the emmissions equipment is still in place and working?
- can I pass the visual with an exhaust header set-up if all the emmissions equipment is still in place and working?

[noahwins]

- can I pass the visual with a CAI set-up if all the emmissions equipment is still in place and working?
- can I pass the visual with an exhaust header set-up if all the emmissions equipment is still in place and working?

Not without CARB EO (Executive Order) labels on the equipment or the radiator support for the CAI and headers to be legal. Some inspectors might be lenient and ignore the CAI if nothing after the sensor or PCV breather inlet is modified but by the book, that's a fail. If the headers are long tube and don't look "stock," the inspector will fail it too. The reasoning is the headers and intake alter the power band and hence emissions.

Post a picture of the setup and I'll give you an idea of what an inspector will think.