They do allow a cleaner engine into the Vanagon.  I don't understand why
people continue to propagate that myth.

The process is pretty simple... put the engine in your Vanagon... take your
Vanagon to the referee... if the referee determines that you have installed
the engine correctly and kept the emission controls of the new engine, you
get an approval.

No politics... no greed... just the typical bureaucracy.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Rob
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 4:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Failed Ca Smog due to Evaporative leak

The last few time we've been in SoCal (over the last few years) I could see
the mountains, it wasn't like that in the 1970's.
That shows that fighting the smog does work.
It does not justify the insanity of not allowing a cleaner engine into a
Vanagon (or anything), that is politics (& greed maybe?).

Rob
becida@comcast.net

At  4/7/2012 02:19 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>Don..
>the whole purpose of that entire bureaucracy is to create and justify
jobs..
>nothing to do with what is reasonable and practical.
>Not *really* about smog ..that's just their cover.