i have reading a lot, and one goal is to make ones car as street legal as possible.
when it come to intakes, i dont understand what makes one legal and one not. the only difference i see is about $100. Arent all intakes pretty much the same? arent they are a pipe with a filter in the end. can anyone explain?

 

it's the government they try to put the screws to you any way they can.

the laws in maine keep getting tougher every year, but i can't imagine they are anything like california

 

the legal ones cost a lot more, but they come with a C.A.R.B. sticker/label on them, the sticker is what makes them legal

 

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when it come to intakes, i dont understand what makes one legal and one not. the only difference i see is about $100. Arent all intakes pretty much the same? arent they are a pipe with a filter in the end. can anyone explain?</TD></TR></TABLE>
Being tested and approved by a government office makes them legal.

 

Applying and getting CARB legal status costs a lot of time and money. You don't just fill out forms and pay a fee. You have to have an actual test vehicle undergo extensive testing. Not like the smog check you get at the corner smog shop.

Besides being smog legal, a vehicle has to pass a safety test to be considered street legal. Many people's idea of a "slammed suspension" wouldn't pass. California really doesn't give a rats *** about the safety test except when you bring in a non-CA vehicle and try to register it here.