| If you're bring a non-calif car (federal) in Cali you have to meet what typical emissions are for that car, so no, you don't have to switch programs. Unless of course your program throws emissions to the wind, then you'll likely be tagged a gross polluter and all the fun that goes with that. Plan on having ALL your emissions in place....including AIV's, cats, egr, etc. If your car is out of tune figure on failing. Fail bad enough and be tagged a gross polluter and then have to go to a test only station. At the test only they can't do repairs (go figure). I have never understood some of this smog test bureaucracy, but you'd have to get it fixed somewhere other than the test only place. Figure a check every 2 years unless you fail...then I believe you'll need another the following year. The smog limits are pretty stiff....cars with old cats (+150K miles) usually fail. Any one smog component not operating as it shoulf usually results in a fail. Smog checks are done on a dyno with the car moving up to 35 mph. 91 is the highest you'll see unless you buy race gas, so if your boost is above 14 you may need to be leery of detonation. Depends on the car's ecu programming I guess. Not sure about bikes.
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