Got pulled over today for a roadside “compliance check”, justification being that he heard my blowoff valve. He said my exhaust is fine since I left everything pre-cat alone and he liked the sound and it’s really quiet for no muffler. He looked for other mods and started to take issue with the hose left dangling from the symposer delete. I showed him that it ran to the passenger compartment, explained what the symposer is and that it makes the car sound like cruisin’ USA and he agreed it’s unlikely an emissions component runs into the passenger compartment. I was let go after being told that it’s very unlikely an Injen intake came with a CARB sticker and that I should sell it out-of-state. It was an overall positive experience, I asked questions about his bike and so on, but it’s very annoying how many extremely modified cars are around but yet another officer pulls me over for my mostly-stock FiST. It’s frustrating how aggressive they’re getting about car modifications in CA. I never get pulled over in some of my higher value vehicles, just the freaking FiST - probably because everyone thinks the driver is going to be a kid.
