Legal engine swaps?

[Robert Harris]

A replacement engine of "identical" specs is not normally considered an engine 
swap and if passing the smog visual and meter would never go to a referee.  A 
"swap" is a changed, modified, "improved" engine of  other year specs.

Side note, in calif, you can generally get very good info from C.A.R.B on what 
you want to do.  I contacted them for direction on how to drop a 429 into my 72 
mustang without violating the rules. In my case, hopefully negated by Guv Pete 
signing SB42, the major problem was to use a 72 or earlier Block, updated to 72 
specs.  Since 72 429's was the last year of very limited smog, the C.A.R.B tech 
guy said go early, smog it to 72 and save problems. A later block means adding 
smog stuff.  Once passed thru the referee and approved, ANY 385 series block 
could be used as a replacement without having to go back to the ref. Still 
looking for the block to simplify things.

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Other Obsessions: Ferro-Equinary , 1972 "Killer Whale" Mustang
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Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>


-----Original Message-----
From:	Tom Cloud [SMTP:cloud at peaches.ph.utexas.edu]
Sent:	Tuesday, October 07, 1997 11:14 AM
To:	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject:	RE: Legal engine swaps?

>Pre SB42 which is sitting on Guv Petes Desk rules are simple
>
>65 and later only

 ... snip

>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.

this confuses me ... you mean that the only way to repair an engine
is to rebuild one ??  you can't buy a new one to replace the worn
out one ??  This would seem to be counter-productive to pollution
goals .... a new engine would most certainly be expected to work
better (pollution-wise) than an older one ????

Tom Cloud

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