Reply to "Any GT5-S owners in California?"

A little observation here by an outsider (outside of California).
Here in NY we use CA numbers on everything.

I think what ultimately you are looking at, is not necessarily adding all of the smog equipment to the car, it is making what you have pass an emission test.

You can talk to Kirk about the entire thing but in my experience that is all the local shop is concerned with.

In my experience, there is no way that you can get through emmisions without cats on the car.
The law doesn't require you to have them, it requires you to make the numbers the machine will show coming out of the tailpipes comply with the law, and you will NEVER achieve that number without them.

Air injection into the exhausts was invented to achieve CA emissions numbers. What the air injection does technically "is permit the engine to continue combustion out side of the combustion chambers to more completely "burn" the "unburned" fuel".

I can tell you from experience, Fords virtually always need this, and it will require a separate air pump to be installed.

In addition, you are highly likely to have to do is install the mid 70's Ford distributor with the vacuum retard connected.

Take my word for it, the car will need to be pushed onto the machine because it will be kicking and sputtering like a diesel.

This is where you are going to turn a legitimate 400hp engine into an anemic 150hp version.

Here in NY, as of last March (2011), we no longer need to run a car on the chassis dyno, or sniff a tailpipe.

As long as your check engine light isn't on, you are going to pass emissions testing. All the tech cares about is the minimum time in his bay so he can get his $37.50 from you and get the next one in.

This is really because of the expense of the equipment and the expense to maintain the testing equipment by independent owner shops (they are all privately owned in NY) for older cars is prohibitive. My '92 SHO doesn't even need to have the engine started now. It is strictly a walk around the car, visual inspection.

Maybe some one will be willing to lend you the parts you need temporarily for the test, but even if you put them all on, you will have no way of knowing if the numbers are clean enough to pass until you bring it for the test, unless you have your own emission machine that is?

Oh...in my days of considering registering the "problem" cars in other zip codes that didn't require emissions testing, another player entered the game. The insurance company. Simply put, they refused to insure a car that I owned to an address at which I did not show residency. How's them apples?

At one time, two states that I know of would register a vehicle by mail from out of state or from a local PO Box. Maine and Alabama.

These are the two states that were registering flat out race cars for the street.

If you look at the Shelby built "continuation Cobras", these cars are being built as 1965 Cobras, as race cars, never being intended to be used on the street. They even are supplied with Goodyear racing tires. Question: How many of them have you seen registered for the streets? How about 99% of them? I'd inquire with people with these cars as well, to see if any can...or will help you.

In any case, best of luck to you.