Stuck in California

The title says it all, I'm having trouble finding carb legal cold air intakes other then the trd. S & B says there's is pending but can't wait and need to replace the stock dirty air filter asap. Just trying to see what the options are out there. Everything I see is legal in every state other then California. No I can't move to another state I have family and kids here so before everyone says to ditch California's

 

Your stock intake is cold air and carb compliant. A new drop in filter will be your best bet.

 

Pretty much everyone on here will tell you to stick with the stock intake (no proven benefit to go aftermarket).

Having said that, you could do like my brother in CA and run what you want, then swap the stock intake back in for emissions testing. Then swap again after you pass emissions.

 

I do this for a lot of stuff on my daily and used to do it on my truck when I ran an aftermarket intake. I've left the stock intake on the last 3 or 4 years.

 

The big hurdle with a CAI being carb legal is the charcoal filter thats on the top of the stock intake (this was according to S&B). Thats why the trd cai is basically the same thing as the factory box.

Your best bet is a aem dry flow filter. you can get the mandrel bent intake tube to go with it and the airflow accelerator.

 

Call Keith at Dirty Deeds, see if he has suggestions.

 

Yeah, CA is quite the pain when it comes to emissions. Makes it really not worth it, sometimes.

Right now I have my brothers Fiat Abarth at my house in AZ trying sell it for him. To many mods, intake being one of them, he couldn't even get it past the visual. Of course he didn't have the stock intake parts to swap back in either.

Wanna buy a hot rodded Abarth, lol...

 

Those are really fun.

My GTI half of the parts are hidden but it has made upgrades a careful selection process. Every 2 years is no biggie to swap most of the visible parts but there are some things I just clench my cheeks hoping they don't notice.

 

You should move to another state.





What??? Someone had to say it!