In a message dated 1/15/04 7:43:45 PM, vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG writes:

<< If I was in your California situation I would go to a wrecking yard and
find
a California 3A motor that has that ECU number and take the cylinder head
from that motor along with the fuel injection system and install it on the
setup that you have now.  Put the EO sticker on it and go back to the
referee station and then you are done.  It's a lot of work, but I think it's
the most cost effective way of solving your problem. >>

There is one path which is far less onerous: buy an ECU with the necessary
part number and carefully remove its sticker.  Then . . . you know where this is
headed.  Sort of that two wrongs making a right mentality.  Of course,
something like that is likely in violation of the law of the land on the federal
level, but, without joking in the least, the federales really don't care what you
do as long as you pay your taxes.

Since Californians seem so ardent in enforcing emission standards, perhaps
the state attorney general's office could help in what appears to be less than
fair treatment of a consumer.

George