Here is a great hook for you ............... the printed circuit board
and wire loom in a CA exhaust system is slightly different. On the CA
only dash it says O2 on the Federal it says EGR and the printed circuit
is different. I can't say this will cause problems swapping from or
swapping to one system vs the other but there is a difference.
The CA system needs to O2 sender for the distributor advance (correct
???????????????).
Lots of CA only systems have been converted to Federal systems and have
been passing CA emissions.
I passed rigid Texas emissions with a Federal System and no EGR parts at
all, just the catalytic converter and muffler.

Stan

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:31:34 -0800 Tom Young <tomyoung1@ATTBI.COM>
writes:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm still struggling to figure out if I'm going to keep the exhaust
> system
> on my '82 as the original "Federal" system or convert over to the
> California
> system.  I've got pieces of both systems and can get the rest, one
> way or
> another.  But, if I convert to the California exhaust setup the EGR
> system
> changes radically.
>
> Here's the question:
>
> Is the EGR valve itself the same on the Federal and California
> systems?
>
> The '82 seems to have a more-or-less working EGR valve (the rest of
> the
> system is pretty poor) and it looks like the California
> EGR-filter-to-EGR-valve pipe (which I have) will fit, but I'm not
> sure if
> the internal workings and settings are the same on Federal and
> California
> systems.  The manuals certainly indicate you adjust them
> differently, but
> I'm not sure if that's because of different smog standards or
> different
> functioning.  Anybody have any part #'s?
>
> TIA.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
> Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>

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