While I'm a big supporter of SEMA's efforts at fighting onerous legislation don't be distracted in all this. The real objective of the state is tax revenue. Once they feel they've gotten as much out of that as they can they'll be back on track to impose more control. It's a constant battle to retain whatever level of freedom we still have, and too few are willing to fight the fight. The LS3 package that's been CARB approved is not a cheap solution. It lists for something around $9k according to a couple vendors I talked to at SEMA last week. That's just the hardware cost, labor, of course, will be on top of that. It wouldn't surprise me to see a bunch of glass cars for sale in Cali, further depressing an already soft market.