Hi guys,

I'm sure many of you guys bought your AEM/MS intakes used - just like I did. The AEM/MS intakes are a great item because they're also one of the very few intakes that were issued a CARB EO#. This means that they are legal for street use in the State of California.

As some of you already may have experienced, the police, CHP, and Sheriff are all cracking down on modifications and will use any excuse to cite you for an offense. I used to have an ITB'd Miata before the RX8 and while I loved the hell out of my all-motor naturally aspirated semi-track car - however....the inevitable happened....a ticket and a trip to the Smog Referee.

If anyone has ever been through a Ref situation before for a modified emissions ticket, they know it is a pain the ass and they will try to fail you for the smallest of issues. In my case, they failed me 6 times in a row until they finally told me that all I had to address was an ignition timing issue (retard 2-3 degrees BTDC).

So for all you AEM/MS intake users that have lost your CARB EO Decal, here is the form that you can fill out and send over to AEM to get a replacement:

The attachment or link for the form is missing.

Sorry....it's been attached now.

Good stuff, I know user Nikkdizzle will be excited to see this

this'll make Nikkdizzle very happy.
I like how AEM is willing to accept pictures of the installed intake in case you don't have the original purchase receipt. (ie; you bought it used)

I sent him a PM already Jedi-

I'm glad to be of help guys.

I had to do this as well because I bought mine used off this forum and it didn't come with the Carb EO sticker.

Everyone here in California knows....just how strict our police are out here.

yeah, Racing Beat needs to hurry up and get me a CARB sticker.
Lets just hope the cops never crawl under there and see my headers or I'm SCREWED.

I hate CA emission laws. :cussing:

^^^they better have a lift to do that :lol: and man....just knowing u have the headers...is sex :yumyum: even sexier if they were to show....JEDI u fail because you didnt have them for the last beach cruise so Im trying to imagine how different it sounds...and BTW IVE had my hood popped and COPS didnt even know what a ROTARY was :rofl:

Zumn: you'll hear the car next weekend. :)
you're right though, that is one advantage of our car; most cops don't know what they're looking at and mods such as headers are not easily identified / seen.

^you are the only one in SOCAL (and also on RX8club.com) with the HEADERS? :scratchhe RIGHT?

YOUTUBE- does no justice for the headers im sure...

Awesome!

zumn: no, there's a few guys on here with the headers. Don't think anyone in SoCal has these headers though.
tiltmode is getting headers very soon.

^ Did u notice actual performance gains? I bet it sounds better.. just like upgrading the intake etc