CARB legal fuel cell???

[SpareChangeRacng]

I am starting the re-build on my 89 ranger and plan on doing a fuel cell. I was talking w/ a smog guy I know and I asked about the cell. He said even w/ all the stock smog stuff (charcoal canister, etc.) hooked up to the cell it wouldn't pass the visual inspection w/o having a CARB #. I was wondering if anybody knows if there is a CARB legal fuel cell out there. I already called JAZ and the person I talked to didn't even know what CARB was! Anyway, I figured I'd ask here before I got out the phone book and called um all. Thanks in advance. Steve

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[BIG_FAT_LOSER]

I am almost 100% sure any gas tank other than the sotck one is not smog legal. (Although some have had cool smog techs pass a fuel cell) and not heard of a C.A.R.B. legal cell.

I plan on keeping my stock tank mounting tabs and removing the cell and reinstalling the stock tank when my truck is due for a smog check. Seems like a pain in the butt, but I also do it with my converter as well.

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[fishd00d]

Be carefull with that cat convertor!! I got pulled over on the way to the last MDR race by an [censored] cop who pulled me over for nothing. He ended up giving me a fixit ticket for just about anything you can think of and some stuff you cant think of.

The fine for just the cat is $2500!!!!!! WHAT A JOKE!!!!

Go Big Or Go Home
United Jumping Truck Society
U.J.T.S. Manwhore

[Snmiedo]

Dear Steve,

I am currently working with the California Air Resource Board for a specific ruling on this topic. I will keep the board apprised of its results as it becomes available. Hopefully we will be able to have auxiliary / larger capacity fuel tanks with the original or aftermarket equipment to satisfy both vehicle owners and the CARB.

Thanks!
Mike Cohen
Race Ready Products
619-691-9171

[Timberwlf]

Fish,

Just curious but what did he get you for??? Thats one thing I have been nervous about with my truck.

Later
Brandon

94 Ranger X-Cab 4x4 5.0 H.O. v-8 Pre-Runner/ Chase Truck

[fishd00d]

Oh man here goes, this is just what I can remember:

-No Front License Plate
-No Front Turn Signals
-Blue Headlights (They are DOT Approved, Piaa Super White)
-No VIN # on the dash (dash is out right now)
-No Charcol canister
-Illegal Intake
-No Catalitic Convertor
-No Mudflaps (Showed him police report for bedsides but he didnt care)
-No License Plate Light
-Zip Ties are not a way to hold on a license plate and tail lights.
-Blinkers flashing to fast!!! WHAT A JOKE!!! Where is there a speed limit on blinkers???

Also when he turned on his lights to pull me over I put on my signal and got over to get off at the next exit, I was planning on getting off because I dont like stopping on the freeway (my friends dad was killed last year stopping on a freeway) so he gets all pissed and was like riding up at my door pointing and crap. Then when I did pull over he was yelling at me for not stopping sooner. And he didn't care about my friends dad either.

Some people are just abused as kids and I guess they fell they just have to get back at the world...I wasent even driving bad or speeding, he just had something up his butt they made him pull me over just to give me a hard time I guess.

Go Big Or Go Home
United Jumping Truck Society
U.J.T.S. Manwhore

[1992f150]

and cops wonder why people don't like them...

Azusa: shame of the foothills

[Kritter]

Thats what happens when you give highschool graduates "power"

Why are you not running a hollow cat?

Kris
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"Jesus loves you, everybody else thinks you're an A-hole"

[SpareChangeRacng]

Snmiedo - what is exactly illegal about the cells, and do you mean to say I could not legally put a larger fuel tank (not cell) in my truck? My friend has a theory about how to get around the non-CARB thing w/ a cell but I'm not sure it will work. He is saying to cut the top of my stock fuel tank off (where the drop in pump, and vent lines, etc. are) and bolt that on top of the fuel cell instead of the fuel cell filler etc. I thought that just having a cell made it not pass smog, no matter what was done to it. Am I correct? Steve

PS: Fish did you have hollowed cats on there or just straight pipes? I got pulled over 2 years ago or so, for "no LP lights" but I think it was my truck. The a$$ sat there for about 45 min and inspected EVERYTHING. He tried to tell me I had no cat (I didn't - I just had a hollowed casing) but I got out and pointed to the casing and he had no way of saying it wasn't a cat. Anyway, I got the ticket for the truck being to loud (plus a bunch of other crap) but I didn't get the $2500 fine for no cat. Needless to say when I finish doing my truck again I will find some old cats, hollow um out and run um so they look like they are real. Just a thought.

[fishd00d]

Yea I have just a piece of bolt in straight pipe on there, I am going to just bolt in my old cat and hope for the best!

Go Big Or Go Home
United Jumping Truck Society
U.J.T.S. Manwhore