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I'm going to wait till I see something a little more official. Otherwise, I'm saying the cop was full of shit.
If your stuff is CARB approved, you shouldn't ever have to worry. That's the only thing they can get you on.
Read the laws, find out what's legal and what's not. There really isn't a whole lot that's illegal. In general altezzas, lowering, etc. isn't illegal.
If they try to start making things like CARB-legal intakes, altezzas, lowering springs, etc. illegal just on the basis that they're car modifications, they're just making a world of trouble for themselves... especially in sue-happy southern california. It will eventually wind up in a freedom of speech, freedom of expression lawsuit.
Intakes, lights, lowering, doesn't create an actual safety hazard in and of itself. Yes, people who mod their cars out tend to drive more recklessly than people who don't... but you can't ban the mods themselves, because if you do you are, in essence, stereotyping.
There are special cop "task forces" that target street racing. They go to races and find out who's there and what they're driving, and they get them that way. They did that a couple months ago here in San Diego. That's all they can do, though.
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