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This is interesting that he passed with the tune still in the car. I've had my 03 cobra for 9 years now and it passed smog with the tune every single time except the last time that it got flagged. I wonder if they're just targeting cobras for now out here in CA and flagging them since a lot of...

I've also been to the state ref before after getting flagged at a regular smog shop. Before going to the ref I took out my afr and boost gauges out. Didn't want to have them get on me for saying the boost line was "tampered" with so took it out. Went in the first time with the stock h pipe...

Just gotta keep in mind even if you use an address from a county that doesn't require biannual smogs there's no escaping being pulled over by CHP or any pd and having them send you to a smog ref lol.

A bit of an update with the smog referee situation. I ended up keeping my billetflow pulley on since I didnt have a stock pulley and plastidipped it black and cut a small cover out of plastic to cover the screws. And I put the stock pulley cage on too. Loaded the stock tune on the car and took...

I had smogged the car multiple times for star testing with the all the mods including the tune and it passed every single time. I figured when I got flagged to go to the ref I would take it with the tune since it had passed before but that was not the case. But lesson learned go back to the...

I'm not sure how they can actually tell or what else their computer tells them but it would be interesting to know. I know that for all the CARB legal blowers they would have to run the whole kit how its stated on CARB's EO with specific parts. If the kit states that it comes with a reflashed...

After talking with AED they told me there was no way of the referee knowing that the car had a tune, but I guess they finally found a way. All the referee said was as soon as he hooked up the computer to the car it threw out a question mark and he said that means it doesnt have a factory tune...

A bit of an update. I went to the referee today and it failed. Went with the tune and pulley still on. They said the monitors were all on but their new software tells them if it's not a factory tune as soon as its plugged in. They said it gives them a question mark on the computer and that's how...

Ive been going to the same smog guy for a while but got flagged somehow this time around. I was standing nearby and he didn't plug the state computer into the port at all. I called Shaun at AED and he said when he tuned the car he didn't change any of the monitors that affect emissions. He said...

I just got done reading the thread and I'm going through the same thing. I've had my 03 for 8 years and never had any issues with smog until now I got flagged to go to the state ref also. The tech didn't even plug in anything to the car he just scanned the smog notice. I have a tune from AED and...

Hey man I just read your post about the smog issue with the referee you had a while back and I'm going through the same thing right now I got flagged to go to a referee. Was your car bone stock aside from the tune when you took it? As in stock pulleys, intake, exhaust etc? I have an appointment...