spreeleon

Hi Porsche fans!

Any CA residents that have had the Schnell cai red hose installed and gotten any issues from smog check? Is there a carb legal sticker that comes with the hose? I know it is simple install but was just curious if I have to reinstall stock hose for smog check.

thanks much!!
leon

Imo000

Why not ask all this from the manufacturer?

Kalashnikov

I heard that Schnell's red hose is banned in all states except Texas. So you are playing with fire.

spreeleon

Thanks looks like i will be replacing the stock hose prior to getting car smogged. Detaching the maf sensor doesn't reset the computer like unplugging the battery correct?

thanks!

Imo000

Correct.

By the way, you need to disconnect the battery for a while before it get's "reset". Unlike the OBDI system, the OBDII retains it's memory for a while even when the battery is disconnected.

spreeleon

Love this forum everyone so helpful.

extanker

until they find out what brand tools you own
and never ever tell them what oil you use

5CHN3LL

For the record: after a couple of rounds of antibiotics, the redness went away.

808Bill

^To much information...

5CHN3LL

Not if you're on the "contact within the last 90 days" list...then it's just the right amount of information.

(In the interests of full disclosure, I admit that my "last 90 days" list would need to be adjusted to include grocery checkers, bank tellers, and other people who had no choice but to interact with me. Any double-entendre you think you detect is on YOU.)

dan_189

Out if curiously how does that hose affect smog?

It's just a straight silicon hose that bypasses the helmholtz resonator?

I'm not familiar with the smog laws

5CHN3LL

It doesn't affect smog - but that's not the point. The tube replaces "emissions-related" equipment, which is verboten by the smog czars.

More specifically, the onus is on the car owner to purchase aftermarket parts which are California Air Resources Board certified. If a part is not CARB certified, you are guilty of illegally modifying your emissions-related equipment. This used to be kind of a joke - "Heh - yeah, I'll remember to attach the CARB sticker" - but the joke isn't funny any more, now that they use inspection mirrors and flashlights to look for illicit parts.

The inspection stations are digitally connected to the CARB databases, so The State knows instantly that you've failed your emissions inspection...and why."

dan_189

Ahh I see, I see. Thanks for the clarification

gnat

Are they going to know the difference between the hoses?

If the color is the only indicator they'd pick up on, a can of spray paint will take care of that...


As a Cayenne diesel owner, fvck CARB and the non-polluting unicorn they rode in on. Fvckers.

5CHN3LL

Dunno. It sucks more when the part in question is...hypothetically...a set of customized, ceramic-coated long-tube headers that were an UNGODLY pain to install, to the point of needing to make a couple of my own tools to deal with some crappy generic header bolts with retainer wires. All of this packaged up in a Corvette C4 engine bay which pretty much screams "Look at the headers! They're right in front of you! They're the ONLY things you can see other than the plastic fuel rail cover!"

I mean, that YOU'd hypothetically make with YOUR own tools. And because you weren't thinking about smog, you didn't bother to trim the 1/8" rim off of the copper exhaust manifold gasket...the same gasket that is now providing a shiny outline around the part that shouldn't be there...