Date:         Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:00:06 -0800
Reply-To:     Michael aka ECHO <echosmurf@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Michael aka ECHO <echosmurf@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: SMOG CHECK WARNING IN CALIFORNIA FOR VANAGONS! (2)
In-Reply-To:  <3AB703C8.933BF9E1@mindspring.com>
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Hello TBerk,
Yes, you are on the money there. I just got my smog
sticker for Basic Emmissions and heading to the
Advance next month. If you do have anything done, i.e.
an engine change.. expect a nice trip to the referee.
Especially if you live in one of the valeeys of
Southern Ca! The only true expection, would be if you
were changing an engine out, it would have to be an
engine that was offered that year.  With, of course,
it should have the smog equipment required of that
engine.
  By the way, I swore I would never own another
vehicle with fuel ijection... and I end up buying a
1980 vanagon.. lol
Michael aka ECHO
(slowly getting back to the list.. working 7 days a
week and going to school full time.. ugh. )
--- T Berk <tberk@MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
> Jeffrey R wrote:
> >
> > I don;t have a conversion in my bus (just the
> stock 1.9 waterboxer) but I did
> > just go through the CA smog exam at a "Test Only"
> station--and passed by a
> > hair. My bus has always run clean since I've owned
> it and I was a little
> > cocky (actually broke) so I took it in fo r the
> test without tuning it up
> > jsut before.
> >
> > So I don't know about conversions but I've heard
> the engine has to meet the
> > specs for the year car that it is in--meaning if
> the vehicke is an 83 it has
> > to meet that standard regardless of the engine
> that has been put in it. I'm
> > not posative that's fact, but if it is I'll send
> the tolerances allowable on
> > my 1983 watercooled Vanagon.  <snip>
>
>
> The law in CA as I understand it means that
> whichever of the chassis or
> the engine is later rules - It has to meet the specs
> for smog equipment
> (and output of course) of the later of the two.
>
> Most people mean this to = you cant use an earlier
> engine but this is
> not it, what's important is that that earlier engine
> be equipped with
> the smog equipment of the later chassis (as in the
> original equipment of
> that vehicle).
>
> If you have a hybrid using different manufacturers'
> parts then you will
> need to definitely get a referee to generate a
> sticker so you can get
> smogged.
>
> It's possible to get an 'interesting' car (van)
> hooked up to a smog
> machine and if it runs clean you are done. Anybody
> remember don't ask,
> don't tell?   :)
>
> hth but If I'm off base let me know.
> TBerk
> aka Dr. FrankenBerk


=====
MY first VW!
1980 Vanagon L "D'Arius"
LOOK a picture!!!http://www.geocities.com/echo207/vanagon.html
Need any general computer help? Computer blonde? E-mail:
echo207@excite.com and I will see what I can do to help.
And a limping 84 buick Skylark

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