SB100 Sequence Number 2010499

[Ron61]

Jack,

You can't get an SB-100 number on a real car. They are only for kit cars and replicas. And even they can't be turn key cars as yo have to have the engine and transmission at least installed by someone other than the dealer. Then you have to have every receipt for all of the work and everything when you go into the DMV. So a 1977 Ford, Chevy, or any other manufactured car isn't allowed to be registered using the SB-100 process. My neighbor who has a 2003 diesel Ford pick up had to take it in and have it smog tested last Summer. And they had never tested diesels here before.

Ron

[kayakjack]

So, if you can't get an SB-100 for a "real car" and you have a 1979 Ferrari 308 that currently meets 1979 standards, but California wants you to meet much more stringent standards, what options do you have to keep the car on the road?

Jack

[Ron61]

Jack,

That is a great unknown right now, at least up in this area. Depending on which DMV you talk to, you will get completely different answers. Kind of like when my neighbor had to take his pick up in to be tested. It has no smog stuff on it except the catalytic converters and they have never tested diesel engines before so we were wondering what they would do for a test. He said they opened the hood, looked at the motor for a few seconds, asked him if he had changed the chip in the computer and then stuck the sniffer in the tailpipe and wrote down the reading and told him he was ok. I think that is more a money thing than any attempt to make the vehicles run clean. And their law is contradicting itself as they have a law that you can't modify the engine, yet to make them run cleaner than when they were new and met those standards it will take a lot of modifications on some vehicles that pass their original requirements.

Ron