Difference with Calif SS performance?
 

Hi, I'm looking at an SS from California. I'm not in Calif. Any disadvantages to buying this one (re: smog pump, etc)? Thanks.

Give this thread a read, HHR's built for sale in the United States feature the FE-9 "50 State" emissions equipment configuration.

So units originally spec'd for sale in Cali are no different than other units sold across the country.

https://www.chevyhhr.net/forums/hhr-ss-45/smog-49-states-vs-california-35709/

The "bad old days" of power sapping smog pumps, California only engine packages, and the jumbles of vacuum lines are long gone.

Oh.... thanks. Bought my first new car in Calif in '87 and haven't lived there since. Glad its not an issue anymore.