As long as you dont drive like an idiot or have a rice out mustang you should be fine. I have longtubes, no cats, magnaflow resonated x pipe and essentially SR Performance's muffler delete with a vortech supercharger and I never get harassed. The car is def not quite and its on drag radials and cops usually give me a thumbs up tbh. I do mainly just cruise around though and try my best to drive like a normal person lol. Ive had a few even come by and take pics/talk cars with me when they are somewhere I pull up or if Im already just hanging out.
Yeah I agree. I don’t want to mess around with taking them on and off. I’ve heard of the “Dudes” you speak of, however they are becoming as rare as a unicorn. At this point I think I’m pretty well decided, I think I’ll be skipping this. Thanks for the reply though.
The only way this works now is they hook up another Mustang that is stock. If there is any software other than stock it won't pass, even if that software keeps the emissions systems in place. The good news is if you are the original owner you don't have to smog now for the first 8 years. If you sell the car to someone the car will need to be smogged. To be frank it seems that LTs are worth about 15rwhp on a otherwise stock 5.0, doesn't seem worth the hassle. A set of MAK deletes would probably be a better bet and easier to smog when the time comes. The MAK deletes don't give up much to LTs, although the torque curve definitely seems fatter with the LTs than the MAKs.