A warning for my fellow CL-ers.

I installed an OBX stainless steel header on my 2.3CL about 18 months ago. I found it on ebay and got it for about $125 - a good deal for an SS header. Before I bid, I checked the OBX website to see if it was CARB legal. The website said the header was legal (in fact, it still says they're legal).

Yesterday I went in for a smog check and they told me that the header doesn't have the little tag with the CARB exemption # on it. They told me to get the exemption number or a copy of the certificate from OBX. I emailed OBX and got no reply. When they didn't reply, I found the CARB website and looked at the complete list of all products that are CARB exempt. Guess what? OBX's headers aren't CARB exempt!

Looks like I'll have to pull out my header this weekend and reinstall the exhaust manifold. Then I'm going to report those a$$holes to the enforcement unit at CARB - hopefully they'll get hit with a big fine.

If OBX ever replies, or if I get a response from CARB, I'll update this thread.

 

one word... comptech

 

They only make headers for V6s. Comptech isn't far from where I live. They've got some nice Acuras in their parking lot.

 

2 words, THOUSAND DOLLARS

 

but they are worth every penny

 

im glad i live in florida.. theres no inspection at all.

 

That explains why every car i've ever seen in florida had some crazy window tint, and crazy exhaust.

 

what about megan headers?

 

so how much do you wnat to sell them for ..lol

 

just take it to a smog place you know. IT will pass the smog test, just not the visual part of it. If you're cool with that person they'll just over look it.

 

what!? I gotta come out with the $20 every year($50 for the DL kind)
New York has too many laws

 

No comptech option for the 2.3.

Even with the CARB tag, if they got really technical, they could fail your visual. If they look up the #, they will see it is for an Accord and not a CL. (being that everyone is using Accord part #'s for the header)

My DC's had the CARB stamp on them, but I got rid of the car before I had to get it smogged.

 

Stone headers on ebay run for 200 bucks plus 38 bucks shipped. SUPPOSEDLY there no bend needed and just line up and fit i had to replace my messed up obx's and got stones

 

and yearly registration is like 30$ for prescious.

 

Hehe I used to work down the street from comptech in el dorado hills.. hehe met some guys at the local McDonalds. (one owns a 1g) but the point is Discounts hehe

 

Shit..I gotta drop 100 everytime 2 yrs when I need to inspect my whip. My civic was so low that I couldnt get up on the smog machine and that pissed them off and they failed me.

 

by drop

 

Come on, you dont know someone who does "offsite inspections" ? :wink:

 

for a legal one?

reg. is like $90 every three yrs, so about the same

 

yeah. the ukranians, for $50

 

nah en jersey everything is computerized even the stickers on the car have a bar on them for scanning to see if they are legit. I had to go to an offsite spot for the CL and pay this kid to pass me.

 

Speaking of the headers. Anyone know anything abuot the dc-s series they have up on ebay now. The lowest price i saw was 49...Friggin cheap. I am thinking they are dc ripoff. WHo knows.

 

in new york 97 and newer cars have to be hooked up to a machine, that links your computer to albany. if the computer says no passy, ju no passy. but I just found someone that "get's" them, for forty

 

Friend works at a gas station that does the state inspections... i slip him 50$ he gives me a legit sticker

 

No inspections on the open prarie.

 

No inspections on the open prarie.