california smog defeats our engine swap

[joe at analogsix.com (Joe)]

It originally got flagged as a gross polluter so it had to go to a test-only
station anyway.  If you don't know someone, you can't get a pretest without
paying, and some of them won't even do it!  I wanted to make sure something
like that wouldn't happen, and they wouldn't pretest it.  I had to paid to
fail so just so I could get the temp registration.  Dumb.

I had my turbo car registered in Eureka for a long time, but I'm a little
sketchy about doing that now.  I might just tell my brother to do that since
it's his car.  Hah, my buddy actually has his jeep's registration address at
Best Western in Eureka.

Plan B is to take the car to someone we know well and see if he'll just run
it, because it should pass the sniffer no problem.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Brian Honnold
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:09 PM
To: 'Scirocco-L@Scirocco.Org'
Subject: RE: california smog defeats our engine swap

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