AE86/RA65 bolt-patterns & GZE swaps

[David A. Cooley]

At 11:05 PM 12/27/98 -0800, you wrote:

>Swapping a supercharged MR2 4A-GZE into an earlier 4A-GE (atmo) Corolla...
>
>   Thanks Paul, I'd forgotten about the ignorance factor. This happened to a
>friend of mine, who also likes playing with German cars. He swapped a 16V 
>(maybe
>even EFI rather than mechanical injection like the Rabbit had) motor into a
>Rabbit, and it passes easily at the local smog shop, because the guy just
>doesn't know what he's looking at. Sometimes they just check for equipment,
>check the tailpipe and go...I've never had my numbers checked in any of my
smog
>checks, but then I don't have a blower hanging off my engine either...
>   Do we have any smog techs out there who can say whether a trip to the Ref
>will be required right away? I know the state can really mess things up if you
>don't jump through the hoops the right way, but they never tell you what the
>right way is...

Actually, you smog to the year of the powertrain *EXCEPT* if you swap an
older powertrain into a newer car you have to meet the smog specs for the
newer chassis you installed it into.
You also have to go to the referee station when the swap is complete.  They
verify compliance and put a sticker on the car that the smog stations use
for spec.  If you just go to get it smogged without the sticker from the
ref station, they will (and properly) try to smog  it to the factory
emissions sticker under the hood.
(My father owned a smog station until they required a chassis dyno... at
3.00 profit from each inspection it didn't justify the $300,000 cost.)
Later,
Dave

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