In a message dated 1/22/00 9:49:47 AM Pacific Standard Time, daveb@CP.NET
writes:

<<
 > Ben, the other thing to think about is the Federal rule that, if you do an
 > engine swap, that the engine come from a vehicle that is the same model
year
 > or newer than yours.
 < We in California have this same regulation.

This can be waived by the referee.

  > CARB does no follow Fed Guidelines on engine swaps. They only care that
 > engine has the smog equipment for year of manufacture. They modified this
 > further for replacement engines after a number of citizens complained that
 > few VW's had original factory engines.

         California does require that the donor engine be from
 the same model year or later. This may have been a 'recent'
 change, but it's been in effect ever since I started looking
 at putting a different engine in my van 3 years ago - and
 was still in effect in November when I last called to verify
 that one can do a gas to diesel swap. Did the new year bring
 new laws that I missed?

Referee can waive this.

 < I also have never heard of any pardon on Mexican engines?!
 <If that were the case, why don't we see Mexican type2s in dealer
 <showrooms? To get a car smogged, you need to have an engine
 <in it that is on record with the CARB. Registering an engine
 <with the CARB costs money (something like $5000 from when