California Differences
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California Differences
I'm about to make an EVO X purchase from Sout Coast. I live in AZ, but the dealers here can't touch their prices. When I asked for a quote from a local dealer he gave me some line about "California cars are different from Arizona cars". The only thing I can think of is emmisions in relation to catalytic converters or factory tuning of the ecu. I'm sure he's just using scare tactics. Anyone want to chime in on this subject. Thanks
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I remember the 3rd Gen Eclipses had a Fed Spec and a CA Spec car where the Fed Spec had less restrictive emissions equipment on and thus had a little more power. No such thing though for the EVOs though here in the US.
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CA has diff emissions on the cars they sell, so there could very well be a change in the cars tuning. There are a couple othere states in the boat as well (nothing a flash from Dynoflash couldnt fix tho). Based on what I've seen, save the $, buy from CA, you'll mod it anyway
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CA has diff emissions on the cars they sell, so there could very well be a change in the cars tuning. There are a couple othere states in the boat as well (nothing a flash from Dynoflash couldnt fix tho). Based on what I've seen, save the $, buy from CA, you'll mod it anyway
i guess if u flash it all of that special CA emission crap would b gone..
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CA has diff emissions on the cars they sell, so there could very well be a change in the cars tuning. There are a couple othere states in the boat as well (nothing a flash from Dynoflash couldnt fix tho). Based on what I've seen, save the $, buy from CA, you'll mod it anyway
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I thought that all cars coming to the us has to follow CA emission? NO?
I thought that the manufacture got tired of building different specs, so they just decided to build it to CA and sell to the rest of the US.
I thought that the manufacture got tired of building different specs, so they just decided to build it to CA and sell to the rest of the US.
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Mitsu doesn't tailor cars to specific states within the US --- they produce them to be 50 state legal, which includes California, and they distribute the order based on dealer allotments.
I've never heard of any new car being deemed "illegal" to sell in a market because of it's tune.
That's just nonsense.
I recommend killing this thread, or the salesman that created this hullabaloo.
I've never heard of any new car being deemed "illegal" to sell in a market because of it's tune.
That's just nonsense.
I recommend killing this thread, or the salesman that created this hullabaloo.