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Perhaps not newer cars, but as soon as you register it as a classic (>25 years old), all of those rules and emissions testing goes right out of the window. The
by fein 4y ago
Perhaps not newer cars, but as soon as you register it as a classic (>25 years old), all of those rules and emissions testing goes right out of the window. The only issue you would have is local laws on noisy exhaust.
In my state, motorcycles aren't subject to any regulation at all at the machine level. I walked in and registered my 70's two stroke yamaha in minutes.
- elmerfud 4y agoActually that's not quite true certain states don't have inspection requirements so they never check but any car that was built from the factory with the catalytic converter is required to have a catalytic converter to be a road. A catalytic converter contributes significantly to noise reduction. For most states that would be early '70s when the federal government mandated catalytic converters he same time they started phasing out leaded gasoline. In California their emission requirements are much stricter and it doesn't matter if your car is classic or not all factory emission systems must be present. Now if you have a non-California version of a car that you bring into California it needs to comply to the emissions of wherever it was built but if you have a California version of a car that would have been stripped of its air pump and other things those need to be restored in order to get street legal in California. Don't confuse the testing requirements with the requirements of the federal and state law.
- rascul 4y ago> A catalytic converter contributes significantly to noise reduction. It depends, but the muffler is what mostly reduces the noise. The difference between an OEM cat and a removed cat isn't always that much in my experience.
- fein 4y agoYes, for cats it's 1975. Interesting but unsurprising to know about California, but I have no reason to ever travel there via classic car, or really for any reason at all.