Specifically Affecting Ca Residents, Please Read

[DatsunZGuy]

As a California resident for over two decades, it baffles me how the state's priorities are so out of whack.  Gov. Brown wants to build a high-speed rail that is so over budget, it cannot turn a profit, let along make the promised time between LA to SFO of 2 hrs and 40 mins.  Now impose another fee on a small minority of vehicles that shrinks as attrition and time takes it toll.

 

The biggest problem facing the state is water, not going after old automobiles.

Edited April 6, 2015 by DatsunZGuy

[rcb280z]

That is the same question I have had for years Charles. If I could update my FI with a programmable system not only will my Z run better but it would run "cleaner". We should be allowed to do this to our vehicles. 

 

Not to mention, Ed, that the state is supposedly broke. Don't get me wrong, I love where I live, next to the beach. And I like clean air. I believe in doing my part so let me do my part and update my fuel system to a better one and not penalize me for it. Thats all I'm trying to say.

Edited April 6, 2015 by rcb280z

[EuroDat]

The fact that you can't alter the system to improve emmisions is really hard to understand. I would have more trouble with that than the $200. Seems like they are using the emmisions as a way to get older cars of the road, which doesn't fit with the pre 1976 exemption to the rule.

Im lucky in that area. We can do what we want to the engine as long as you don't increase capacity, like install a V8 etc.

Chas

[siteunseen]

So anything can be done to an '85 or older car as long as you pay the $200?  That's very similar to why I vote, it negates at least one bad choice.

 

A Prius pulls up beside a Ricer and tears come into his eyes, from the fumes.  ::

[Kurbycar32]

I found what appears to be actual text and pasted it below.  in the case of your mostly well running 280z this would work, but its not smog exemption per-se.  The vehicle owner would have to make "necessary" emissions related repairs, which does not appear to have a spending cap.  it might be an extreme example but the smog referee could say to go get your pistons replaced first..  I also don't see how this would protect a motor swap situation

 

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0501-0550/ab_550_bill_20150326_amended_asm_v98.html

 

SECTION 1. Section 44011.7 is added to the
Health and Safety Code , to read:
44011.7. (a) The owner of a motor vehicle that is required to
obtain a certificate of compliance pursuant to Section 44011 may
elect to pay a smog abatement fee of two hundred dollars ($200) if
the motor vehicle meets all of the following criteria:
(1) Is 30 or more model-years old.
(2) Was manufactured during or after the 1976 model-year.
(3) Fails a smog test required pursuant to this chapter.
(4) Fails a subsequent smog test after necessary repairs were
made.
( Payment of the smog abatement fee established pursuant to this
section shall be made to the Department of Motor Vehicles at the
time of the registration of the motor vehicle.
© Fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited in
the Air Quality Improvement Fund created by Section 44274.5. 

[psdenno]

1976 still seems to be the "magic" year for SMOG awareness. There was a time when my 1963 Studebaker Avanti had to have seals placed on the carb adjusting screws after it received an "official" adjustment to the standards 40 years ago. Woe be to me of I broke the wax like seals that filled the screwdriver slot on each screw. Glad those days are gone. Twenty years ago, my '70 Porsche was the SMOG demon. It ran clean enough to pass the exhaust test, but couldn't pass the visual test due to aftermarket carbs and linkage. I ended up putting Historic plates on it which took it out of the SMOG test cycle and enabled me to drive it.

Dennis

[Kurbycar32]

There was a time when my 1963 Studebaker Avanti had to have seals placed on the carb adjusting screws after it received an "official" adjustment to the standards 40 years ago. Woe be to me of I broke the wax like seals that filled the screwdriver slot on each screw. Glad those days are gone. 

 

My 2005 Yamaha dirt bike had brass plates blocking off access to the carb main jet that I had to actually drill out.  With CA gas being so terrible I had to drill that out just to unclog the jets within the first 60 days of ownership

[rdefabri]

As a California resident for over two decades, it baffles me how the state's priorities are so out of whack.  Gov. Brown wants to build a high-speed rail that is so over budget, it cannot turn a profit, let along make the promised time between LA to SFO of 2 hrs and 40 mins.  Now impose another fee on a small minority of vehicles that shrinks as attrition and time takes it toll.

 

The biggest problem facing the state is water, not going after old automobiles.

 

Mind boggling...and this coming from a guy that lives in NJ.