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<blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 4146382" data-attributes="member: 42584">I can name a couple of places (do I really have to <img src="/images/smilies/bah.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bah:" title="Bah&nbsp; &nbsp; :bah:" data-shortname=":bah:" />).Back in the day when I was a DIY&#039;er I replaced the factory air filter set-up on my &#039;64-Mercury Montego with an &#039;open element&#039; filter with chrome top and fancy style of hold-down wingnut - something like this:[ATTACH=full]423591[/ATTACH]California Highway Patrol (CHP) pulled me over not long after for some minor traffic violation, and they also wrote me up for illegally &quot;tampering with or modifying the Smog Control System&quot; which I learned can include things like air filters and resulted in my car being impounded as being considered as no longer legal to drive on a public road.Second place was in Manitou Springs, Colorado many years later, where during an annual Smog Certification on my &#039;83(?)-Chevy Cavalier, the &#039;official&#039; doing the certification failed to pass because I had changed the regular gas cap for an &#039;unapproved&#039; locking model.&nbsp; Seems that my car had a &#039;closed-loop&#039; fuel system which required a gas cap that sealed tight, and the locking one that I had installed, did not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chuckie, post: 4146382, member: 42584"] I can name a couple of places (do I really have to :bah:). Back in the day when I was a DIY'er I replaced the factory air filter set-up on my '64-Mercury Montego with an 'open element' filter with chrome top and fancy style of hold-down wingnut - [I]something like this:[/I] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1698279367182.jpeg"]423591[/ATTACH] California Highway Patrol (CHP) pulled me over not long after for some minor traffic violation, and they also wrote me up for illegally "tampering with or modifying the Smog Control System" which I learned can include things like air filters and resulted in my car being impounded as being considered as no longer legal to drive on a public road. Second place was in Manitou Springs, Colorado many years later, where during an annual Smog Certification on my '83(?)-Chevy Cavalier, the 'official' doing the certification failed to pass because I had changed the regular gas cap for an 'unapproved' locking model. Seems that my car had a 'closed-loop' fuel system which required a gas cap that sealed tight, and the locking one that I had installed, did not. [/QUOTE]

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