Legal engine swaps?

[Jeffrey Engel]

Have you encouraged Gov. Pete to sign SB-42?  It would free things up 
a bit for the earlier cars.  I haven't been paying too much attention 
to the details since I live in TX, but sooner or later a bill like 
that my make my lifer better out here.

========================================
> Date:          Tue, 7 Oct 1997 23:56:59 -0400
> From:          "DOROTHY I. STREICH" <DStreich at compuserve.com>
> Subject:       Legal engine swaps?
> To:            "INTERNET:diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu" <diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu>
> Reply-to:      diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu

> :-,>   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
> 
> 
> In pre-66 cars you can do whatever the hell you want <looking at a 1955
> Pontiac Star Chief and 30 years in the old ladys jail> but after that you
> have to use a newer version of the origional engine that came out of a
> vehical in the same or lower weight class.  I am unclear as to using an
> engine that was a newer car of your bodystyle but wasent offered in your
> model year.  It is illeagal to put a super clean(burning) engine in a
> vehical that had a dirty engine in it unless you get lotsa pain in the butt
> tests, and they say the legislature is good...Eliminate all
> GreenPeopleFreaks!!!  I am for clean air and clean cars, but so few are 25
> years and older that the 20 or 25 years and beyond aged cars should be
> exemt and any car that had a carbureator should be able to be switched to
> fuel injection and exemted from smog because the over lean and rich engines
> that do most poluting are usually carbureated, and fuel injection is much
> more reliable in that department,...
> 
>                                         Karl Streich
>                                         My $0.02 worth
> 
>                                         plus $10.00 worth :>
> 
> 
je
jengel at fastlane.net

     "I can resist anything but temptation"
                                  Mark Twain