While I agree the laws are inane, the bottom line is... Do your homeowrk before you leap. If Tiico lied in it's adertising, they owe you a legal replacement for your engine work. If they didn't lie, and I have been followong the web site for about a year now, they owe you nothing. California is a weird state when it comes to smog laws. Nothing new. If you change engines without knowing how you are going to register it, YOU have the problem. It's one of the reasons I still have a 1.9 in my 84. Who wants to deal with getting the state to do the right thing? My advice... sell the van out of state. Buy a new van and either live with the 1.9, 2.0, 2.1 or a diesel.Otherwise, in CA, the bast bet still looks like a Kennedy Subaru conversion. JMHO, tim in san jose
>--- Stephen Steele <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET> wrote: > > > Their van may either end up sitting in the driveway > > > for years (waiting on CARB exemption), or may take that > > last lonely > > > journey to the scrap heap. > > OR > > They could sell it to someone in a less restrictive > > state... > > the "scrap heap" comment IS a bit harsh. > > My $.02 worth. >Ya know, I've not been reading all of these tiico comments, >but think that there muxt be a legal way around this crap! >as a fellow Californian, I am frustrated by our inane laws >re autos... My friend Joe bought a tiico engine and kit, >but was afearin' the carb people, so the engine is sitting >in the back of his range-rover waiting as well. Last month >we were picking up parts for the #3 westie, and found a >diesel vanagon with a 1.8 wabbit engine and grabbed that >one as well. for now we are going to install that one and >just wait until we can either get a turbo deisel vw engine >here, or bring his '89 jetta turbo diesel here from >toronto, than he wants to sell teh tiico. I dissagree and >think that there has to be a loop-hole. has anyone actually >sat down with carb and checked what has to be done? the >engine is soooooooo close to the us engine. there has to be >a way. good luck > >Paul(happy with a '80 airhead!) ;-) but will eventually do >a deisel turbo deisel as soon as I can find a nice diesel >westie with a dead engine. > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now >http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
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