Not fully correct. I live in Brazoria County, south of Houston, and smog testing is required.

 

Since smog is no longer a concern, what do you plan to do with your smog equipment? I to am a recent classic rx7 owner and am wondering what to do with my smog stuff. I have a lot of reading to do on the subject. I am not looking for a HP increase but more from a simplification, work space perspective.

 

Very cool!

 

Remove it.

I actually built my car such that I could easily reinstall the smog equipment to pass smog every 2 years. My single turbo allowed me to keep the stock airpump. So with a functional ACV (which is currently still installed) all I needed to do was reinstall the airpump and piping, stock main cat, and the split air pipe and I was good to go. My car was tuned well enough to pass smog with flying colors with this equipment installed...even with 850 primary injectors.

As of now I will not have to ever again reinstall the airpumop and main cat and plan on swapping my factory LIM with a GZ LIM and doing away with the ACV and associated hardware and plumping. I've had a GZ LIM sitting on my shelf for 2 years now...just waiting.

Regards,
Crispy

 

Hey Crispy,

What exact steps did you go through to register the car as historic? I ask because I used to live in MD and still have a mailing address there. The car is in California but if a VIN check is not required to register the car to MD as historic I may try it.

 

You have to have a MD title.

Rest of the info is here. Scroll down for historic vehicle.
http://www.mva.maryland.gov/About-MV.../27300-28T.htm

 

The only part which may be an issue is the safety inspection. I assume that the inspection form will involve an inspection of the car.. As crazy as it sounds, if I start grad school in the east coast I may ship the car over and title it, hit VIR a couple times and then ship it back lol.

 

It was purely a paperwork exercise. No safety inspection was needed.

Regards,
Crispy

 

Cripsy, are both titling and registering as historic a paperless process? Its been too long for me to remember how the MD mva works.

Appreciate the help

 

I did have to go to the MVA. Two forms IIRC. One requesting the historic tag and one to reissue(?) tags. My existing title was not affected so there were no titling issues and no titling actions were necessary. I don't think you can do it over the internet or paperless.

HTH,
Crispy

 

Man you would be asking for it if you ever got pulled. That is unless you don't have a CA driver's license or if the the car isn't registered in your name.

 

Why would it be an issue? Its not really against the law to register the car in a state where one has an address and have a license in another state. I may be underestimating California's ruthlessness however.

 

Actually you are suppossed to have a valid driver's license and have the car registered in the state that you reside in. The only people that are exempt from that are military personel. Think about it this way, CA is all about the $$. If the car is registered in another state that means that the other state gets the cash for the registation/fines and yada yada... Besides cops don't like it when a motorist is exempt from the law and therefore hey will most likely harass over that.

 

You have to have a MD address, and License to get it titled in MD. Therefore you have to have a residence, and some proof of living there aka a utility bill in your name. You can't just show up and title a vehicle.

No. Did you read the link I posted for you earlier? It supplied exactly what you need to do. ONCE you have a MD title there are two forms you have to fill out. The historic vehicle application, and form VR-008. You can either do that at the MVA, or mail the documents and check to the MVA. I did the latter, and just got my plates. But once again you have to have a MD LICENSE and TITLE, and they will ship the plates to the MD address.

 

YES i did read it,
If you read my post earlier you would read that I have a residence address in MD. Unfortunately I dont have a MD drivers license thus this bright idea I have seems unrealistic. BTW I actually grew up in Gaithersburg which is right next to Rockville.

 

hold on now buddy. Good luck with getting past the state rip off vehicle inspection that givien by state approved rip service stations that measures rotor thickness,trade depth, and about 500 other things on a check list for out of state vehicles lol. No way a 20 year old gets past those greedy bastards with out failing.

 

hold on now buddy. Good luck with getting past the state rip off vehicle inspection that's given by state approved rip service stations that measures rotor thickness, tire trade depth, wiper blades, windshield chips- cracks and about 500 other nitpicking things on a check list for used and out of state vehicles lol. No way a 20 year old gets past those greedy bastards with out failing. They normally can find some crap wrong that will cost 700 -1500 dollars worth of fixing.

It's easier to register in Phoenix, any car over 15 years old and designated as a collectable with the appropriate insurance ( Garaged and limited miles 2500 -3000) can avoid emissions. The only problem is that DMV and insurance people have no clue on the law and you have to do the homework for them and say here let me Google this law for you.