Legal engine swaps?

[Robert Harris]

Pre SB42 which is sitting on Guv Petes Desk rules are simple

65 and later only

If the engine is older than the body year, it must have all the smog equipment 
and meet the smog standards of the body year for that engine. If it was not 
available that year, you may as well forget it.

If the engine is newer than the body year, it must have ALL the smog equipment 
and meet the smog standards of the engine year. This includes cats, evaporative 
canisters, transmission etc.

Unless the swapped in engine is bone stock and in primo emissions condition, 
taking it to a referee is certain to result in all of your work ending up at 
Ace Auto Wrecking.  Their basic goal is to make certain that each and every 
component is in their book and is smog legal.  Compromise, reasonableness, 
understanding , willing to work with the public etc. are not in their 
vocabulary.  Remember - they are one of the enforcement arms of the Smog Nazis!

If the first ingredient ain't Habanero, then the rest don't matter.
Other Obsessions: Ferro-Equinary , 1972 "Killer Whale" Mustang
Currently Interred in the Peoples Democratic Republic of California - Stalag 
Montclair
Puck da guns - ban Politicians!!!!!
Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>


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Sent:	Tuesday, October 07, 1997 1:56 AM
To:	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject:	Legal engine swaps?

Does anyone know what the law says (esp in CA) about swapping a newer engine
(post-80) into an older car (pre-70)??
Thanks in advance for the help...

Van