Euro Version CA Smog Testing

1. GM electric smogpump mounted in the right rear of the trunk
2. removable cat with line to the airpump
3. get the car extremely hot.
4. assuming your engine is tight and tuned properly? You will pass with no problems like my car did.
4. remove cat, and pull fuse to smog pump.
5. install catless exhaust

Good luck.

I assume your dot and epa paperwork is greenlight?

 

let me keep it here where they dont care. i love the euro cars. carbs especially. from what i have read in the california section, you are screwed unless you mod the car. check with some of the members in that section as i believe there was / is a thread about something similar to this. good luck.

 

Euro car in Cal?

THey don't care, you have to put the car in California spec, even if it costs $5K, it is your problem. Pass smog like a California car or no registration. Not even a collector car (or historic plate).

 

TOM, on the serious side, i do hope it all works out for you. that would be awful to have the prize of an fcar in your hands and not be able to enjoy or keep it. sounds like it has a history and stories to tell! ( i mean that in a good way) please keep us posted on your efforts, if the car is within my means i will be glad to relieve you of it if it comes to that. best of luck to you. michael

 

As I understand it, CA requires the car to be in the exact configuration that it was tested in in the year of certification. That means it needs to be set up like other California cars in 1980. The first thing I would do is get the shop manual supplement for the 1980 model and compare that to what you have. I'm not sure an electric air pump mounted in the trunk will pass when an engine-mounted unit was specified. I once got dinged on a California inspection because I had a GM charcoal canister, and not the original Ferrari one.

Also, using the mixture test pipes for air injection may be a problem. First of all, there is a diffuser on the normal air injection port inside the exhaust port, Second of all, injecting air into the exhaust pipe rather than the head might cause overheating and melting the exhaust header pipe because of the supplemental combustion.

Its hard enough for owners of pre-fuel injection Ferraris to pass smog in California, even if they had all the pieces, and were originally California cars.

It might be cheaper and easier for you to buy a Ferrari in California that has passed smog, rather than fighting the smog Nazis (been there, done that).

 

agreed.... MIKE F. , seems the " while in rome ... do as the romans " applies. when in CALI, get a car in Cali already smogged. all the work and mods required would seem to ruin the cars character unless it was done for the cali market by the factory. sort of on topic, does california have issues with euro cars NOT metting the federal bumper standards since they dont have the U.S bumpers from the year of manufacture??? here in GA they dont care, and though i have selected to get a euro carb 308 ( A GTB!) when the time is right, i wounder how you folks keep your sanity trying to make old cars run" clean"!!!
it was stated by the starter of the thread that the car " ate a valve" at one time. could a smogged engine from a wrecked 308 be put in this car to allow him to pass the inspections??/ just wondering... i say let the east coast fcatters ( me !) keep the car for you and put carbs on it.... maybe there is a shop around that can do a tasteful conversion on th car and it can be made to pass since it has the CIS injection ( car is a 1980 i think??). best wishes...... been watching this thread!!! michael

 

I have an '80 carb'd euro 308 that was registered about 2 years ago in CA. There was a process that it went through, state inspection and paperwork. I recently had it smogged and it passed with ease. Making it pass the actual smog test was easy. This car had lived in CA for many years prior to being registered because it had dealer tags. The part that you need to research is wether or not CA will allow cars from out of state to be BAR certified. They may say if it wasn't in CA before a certain date, they won't allow it. As for all of the equipment, they didn't care what it was off of, just that it worked and passed smog. They didn't care about the km speedo, bumpers, side lights, type of smog pump, charcol canister... What it needs for smog inspection gets written on the BAR sticker, just make sure it's there when it is smogged again. Again, coverting it to meet the smog standards and making it pass are the easy part. There are others around here with the same situation so mine wasn't an exception.

 

I FACED A SIMILAR AND EXACT situation. Many people on this board said it would take thousands of $$$$$ to make it pass Cali smog. I did it for less than a grand.

Call James Patterson at Norwood Performance, s sponsor on this board. Mention to him that you are interested in making a 308 cali smog legal.

good luck

Paul