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california smog defeats our engine swap
Grind off the V and stamp a D. If you know what it really is who cares. OR
you could swap the pistons and head in/on to a RD block or even the block
that is stock for that car. The engine code tells us what the entire engine
is (including head) not just what block it is.
So did you have a long conversation with this guy about the swap or did he
figure it out for himself?
Man I'm glad I don't have to do that!!
Dave
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From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Joe
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:21 PM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: california smog defeats our engine swap
Well today my brother took his car to the smog ref to try and get it
certified. It's an RV motor out of a '92 GTI using CIS-E. He was confident
that the guy would accept it, but it was a no go. I was pretty sure that it
would need to be a complete swap (harness and all from donor).
If it was an RD block he would have been fine because then we could have
called it a complete swap from an 86-88 GTI/GLI. However, it's an RV. It's
sad because it's pretty much the same engine from what I can tell.
They were giving him crap about the electronic ignition, saying it should
have had a vacuum advance distributor. But wouldn't any high compression
motor be equipped with a knock sensor and consequently an electronic advance
distributor?
In any case, we have the car running with CIS-E so it's just a matter of
finding an engine that will be legal in it. We do have a complete PL laying
around, but who knows what that would amount to in terms of not using the
power steering pump, exhaust, etc. This really sucks because it took way
too long to get this thing going.
Joe
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