california smog defeats our engine swap

[bhonnold at pac-cap.com (Brian Honnold)]

Why did you have to go the referee in the first place?

None of the CA smog monkeys I have ever been to would have noticed an RV
motor instead of the stock JH.  As for cis-e, most of them wouldn't notice
that either.

If you can share with us why you have to go to the REF, maybe one of the CA
peeps can figure out a work around.......like registering the car in a
county with NO smog?????
 

Brian Honnold
Director of Multifamily Acquisitions
Pacific Capital Investments
Phone:  916.773.3300
Fax:  916.773.3208
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org 
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Dave Ewing
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:25 PM
> To: Scirocco-L@Scirocco.Org
> Subject: RE: 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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