This are the easiest methods of finding out if you have a pzev or fed emmisiosn on your 08 lancer. The easyiest way is to look under the car if you have a resonator you have a fed car. if you don't have a resonator then you have pzev. another easy way is : Look at your headers in the back if you see a cat attached right after the header in the engine bay with a o2 sensor connected to it you have PZEV if not you hav fed. Another way is : The window sticker that comes along with you car from the dealership. On the the top right conner it would say California Emmisions Standard if you have PZEV. Those are just simple ways of knowing if you have pzev or not. So far ive now that Cali, NJ,NY, and PA carry Pzev. as of now.
^ just to add, CT also only sells PZEV models... a few years back they switched over to the cali standard, so all cars sold in CT must be cali standard.
True to a point. With it getting harder and harder to find GTSs, car dealerships are having to buy them from out of state dealerships. Therefore, a TX dealership could purchase one from a California dealership. Then you would not have the Fed.