jDM H23A smog legal in CA yes or no?

[Warudakumi]

I ran a JDM P13 with my H22... mileage still sucked.

What was your average total miles on a full tank?

For my last CB7 H22a automatic, I had a heavy foot and was filling up I swear at least once a week. If i had a full tank and drove to San Francisco which is about 50ish miles from my home, I would come back with just a little over 1/2 a tank. That H22a really ran super rich! I killed 3 cats with that car.

With my p72 tuned H22a manual current CB7, i'm averaging close to 318 per tank with a v-tec happy week.

I have yet to do a FULL week with no v-tec engaging at all but my best so far has been 336 miles with the dummy lamp blinking fast. It's so addicting to wind up the RPMs

[bmxicansd]

Well his screen name is Starkrice and there are pictures of his car and engine bay on the site somewhere.

Ref are just techs and they don't know everything. You, or the Ref for example, might think that a California ECU or even a USDM ECU cause the engine to have less emissions and run cleaner than with a JDM ECU. Totally false. I have both a California P13 and a JDM P13 and ran the smog with each one without changing any other parts. Results were the same. Turned out I needed a new Cat. The last time I did smog I did it with the JDM P13 and I had almost zero emissions across the board.

If Ref's would care more about how clean the car runs and less about nit picking details of parts it would save everyone a lot of headache and cost.

I found some pictures I snapped of Alex/ Starkrice’s Car in my photo bucket album . He actually BAR'd the F20B with a full wire tuck.

[4CYLPOWER92]

I found some pictures I snapped of Alex/ Starkrice’s Car in my photo bucket album . He actually BAR'd the F20B with a full wire tuck.

Is he still driving it around? Last I remember hearing which was over 3 years ago the engine wasn't doing so well. I remember that story when he got it bar'd. At first the ref was shaking his head saying "how much are you willing to spend" and then basically saying F it, we'll just bar it as an H22 LMAO.

[4CYLPOWER92]

Well, its not the Ref its the law.

But laws are hardly ever black and white and no two people will ever interpret them uniformly. Trust me I enforce laws. I'm an inspector in the food industry and I can tell you without a doubt that: A. No inspector knows every law. And B. No inspector enforces every law, and C. No inspectors agrees with every law, and D. No inspector interprets the law the same way as others. There are so many gray areas. Many times it comes down to professional judgement and what "makes sense".

[starkrice]

Here u go guys from my cb7! and i have more F20B's and H23A state ref in cali from other customers cars and as far as jdm ecu's and usdm ecu same shit thats why they both have narrow bands o2 sensors to reach a goal of 14.7 AFR on part throttle
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[starkrice]

[deevergote]

I don't know what's going on here.

[starkrice]

reality bro

[h22sparkle]

Well his screen name is Starkrice and there are pictures of his car and engine bay on the site somewhere.

Ref are just techs and they don't know everything. You, or the Ref for example, might think that a California ECU or even a USDM ECU cause the engine to have less emissions and run cleaner than with a JDM ECU. Totally false. I have both a California P13 and a JDM P13 and ran the smog with each one without changing any other parts. Results were the same. Turned out I needed a new Cat. The last time I did smog I did it with the JDM P13 and I had almost zero emissions across the board.

If Ref's would care more about how clean the car runs and less about nit picking details of parts it would save everyone a lot of headache and cost.

Damn its that serious out there?

[starkrice]

u just have to know ur shit around here in cali

[Warudakumi]

u just have to know ur shit around here in cali

Wow very interesting... I want to know that BAR shop. They seem hella cool. I would seriously put my car back to stock and drive it down there coz all the BAR ref's in my area or in sac are haters with their own fixed up rides or Muscle heads who don't know anything about how Hondas are setup with a swapped engine. The sacramento BAR ref failed me instantly because my engine bay didn't "look like a prelude" with the charcoal boxes. I argued with him and wanted to just take my car back but I stayed to see what other bs he was going to find wrong.

If you took a wire tucked car to one of these shops, that would be a guaranteed instant visual inspection fail.

[starkrice]

It's not that there cool down here, lol they know what there looking at and want to see if ur swap is good enough to meet the BAR Requirements.

[starkrice]

But if u have a student looking at ur car for get about it......
I've school students on what there looking at and so on..

[wed3k]

u just have to know ur shit around here in cali

or know someone that knows what thier doing. ill probably stop doing smogs in 2014. my boss just caught an undercover car yesterday. thanks BAR

[Accord1320]

Hey Alex, when you get BARd, what the best place to put it and how do you protect that from the elements? I'd hate to go through all the trouble of ref'ing & making your swap legit, just to have it get ruined...