V&H Short Shots legal in California
 

Are short shots emission legal in California?

Check Vance and Hines website.

http://vanceandhines.com/california/

I would run them and if you have to get it smogged put the stock pipes back on if the smog people give u grief

No smog, no inspection. Go for it.

Depends. After market pipes on new bikes (2012+) are only legal under a certain decimal level here in Kaliforniastan.

Man am I glad Arizona just went to no smog or inspections on bikes,just pay for the registration for the year and your done!

This, AND now dealers in California are no longer allowed to install aftermarket pipes on bikes. So, plan on doing it yourself.

Quaid Harley got caught and fined (10k I believe)

I heard Cali is the first to ban after market pipes that don't have a certification stamp.

Technically, virtually all aftermarket pipes are illegal for street use under federal (EPA) statutes in the US, but only a few localities choose to enforce the federal law. If the pipes don't have an EPA stamp embossed on them they are not really legal.

Right No smog or annual inspections in Calif. for motorcycles & we do have decible laws & I don't know any after market pipe stamped legal for street use here ( maybe there are some I don't know of) but the only riders getting written up for loud pipes in my city I know of are Sport bikes, No Harley Riders I heard of. Been riding a 2001 Softail with Samson Big Guns with no baffels for years & never been stopped & I've had numerous cops ride beside me & check out my bike only to give me a thumbs up & ride on. My Sportster 72 has Screaming eagle slip ons with baffels removed & DKCustom TTI. Loud as Hell & the cops just check it out wave, smile, give me a thumbs up, but no tickets. Maybe I'm just lucky or live a charmed life. I say go for it just keep the stock ones if your not as lucky & have to switch back to get a fix it ticket signed off. It also depends on what part of Calif you live in and how you ride & how you treat the officer stopping you I think

There have been decibel level requirements on motorcycles in California for decades. That said, there is another part of the law here that says that "any exhaust system that is not stock on a bike, or is modified from stock, that makes it louder than it was when sold new is illegal". Now, that being said, I run loud pipes here in California and so do a lot (and I do mean A LOT!!!) of other bikes are louder than mine are. The LEOs don't pay much attention to larger bikes with loud exhausts. I even know of a few cops (and some of them are motorcycle cops) that also have personal Harleys and they too have modified (and loud) pipes. As long as you are not one of those A$$holes that sit at lights and just rev and rev just to make yourself obnoxious, there should not be any problem.

We should all read this.

The California Air Resources Board has fined Santa Fe Springs-based Vance & Hines Performance LLC $500,000 for violations of air quality laws related to the sale of illegal aftermarket motorcycle exhaust systems in the state.
ARB said a late 2012 investigation found that Vance & Hines sold, advertised and offered for sale motorcycle exhaust systems that replaced original emissions-critical components, such as catalytic converters.
California law prohibits the sale, distribution and installation of parts that modify vehicle emissions control systems, unless modifications are proven to neither reduce the effectiveness of those systems nor cause excess emissions.
State officials said Vance & Hines fully cooperated with ARB in the investigation and has implemented a compliance plan for its aftermarket systems.
Funds from the fine will go to the California Air Pollution Control Fund to support air quality research.

And V&H is not the only one.