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A smog tech that wants to keep his license is going to look fairly hard at these things. Slipping in a non OEM part is the kind of stuff the Bureau likes to do when they are building sting cars to catch guys.

Former CA smog check guy here. Unless these parts have gained approval from the California Air Resources Board then yeah - the cold air intake, down pipe and possibly more would make it fail emission inspection.

Thanks.  I totally agree that it is a good vehicle for someone as long as they understand and accept the compromises they may not otherwise know they are making with this.

It’s a great price for what it is, but as others are commenting - the modification while cool has impacted the structural integrity of the vehicle in a significant manner. The high strength steel has been hacked out of the B-pillar which is designed to slow the intrusion into the passenger compartment and transfer

While I agree with most of what you’ve said, there definitely have been compromises made in the structure of this vehicle. High strength steel has been removed and unless they crash-tested these after conversion (they didnt), there’s no way its going to survive a crash as well as it would have prior to the mods. The

Well, the structure that they removed is not mild steel. Admittedly, the B-pillar on a 2022 model vehicle is stronger than the 590mpa in this 2011, but the tensile and yield strength of mild steel runs about half that.

Of course nobody would drive a mint first gen Bronco in the winter.

Buy a 4WD. Check.

Own an 11 year old Camry, can confirm.

It definitely has gotten worse. My 25 mph limit residential street turns 90 degrees about 200 feet from my driveway and a couple times a month my wife or I are nearly rear-ended pulling into our driveway. I do not always use my turn signal into my driveway but I have gotten more vigilant about it - we’ve both had

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Tesla has their “drag race” mode. When are they gonna use the cameras to monitor the tree, allowing the driver to launch the second the last yellow light goes out?

At least the watered down Mountain Dew *sorta* looked like coolant.  We refer to Mountain Dew Baja Blast as “washer fluid”

Especially when you feed in $40K to get the F150 and it gets hung up on the Mirage on the way down and you have to feed in another $3.25 to purchase the Mirage to get your F150.  Or does that only happen to me?

I have a special version of hate for the USDM Previa. Spent a decade doing emission testing in California and this was pretty much my least favorite to test. Checking the ignition timing was loads of fun, having to get underneath the vehicle to attach the inductive lead to #1 cylinder then going all the way to the

Hah, I remember when I bought my first one of those.  It came in a spark plug set and at first I was pissed because I didnt notice the handle of the wrench was angled.  I despised it for about 3 minutes, then it became a good friend over the years.

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I absolutely cannot believe that nobody here has mentioned this yet...

While I can’t recall specifics - I saw a shitton of AWFUL ones come out of the scuzzy Paul Blanco dealership outside of Sacramento. I worked a nearby salvage yard that would get the junk they would take in on tradeins that was so garbagey it wasnt worth hauling to the wholesalers. They would routinely leave deal

Yep. When my parents were at the Ford dealer (Boone Ford in Olympia, Washington) buying the brown on brown manual trans ‘81 Fairmont wagon, they had a Durango sitting in the showroom. While they were dealing with the finance guys, I was sitting in the Durango just goin places in my head.  

Not to be that guy, but Fox bodies got the 200 ci automatic - derived from the Falcon 170. The 300 was the truck motor, derived from the 240.