AE86/RA65 bolt-patterns & GZE swaps

[Don.F.Broadus at ucm.com]

David  did you have the OCT 2000 for sale awhile back ?  if you did, I would
be interested.

 
Thanks 
 
Don  

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	David A. Cooley [SMTP:n5xmt at bellsouth.net]
	Sent:	Monday, December 28, 1998 11:09 AM
	To:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
	Subject:	Re: AE86/RA65 bolt-patterns & GZE swaps

	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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