California smog police are waiting...?

[Tony Lum]

At 08:32 PM 8/16/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>... chances are that as long as the old engine looks like the original you
>might be able to sneak it in ... the inspection done at the DMV when you
>register it is not as strict as that at a referee station.  It would have to
>be close enough so as not to set off any flags for the guy running the smog
>check though ... and you would have to pass the smog test for the engine the
>car was supposed to have.  The techs do have lists of all of the stock
>equipment, and they will check for it.  Another warning is that I hear that

Hi Steve,

What if the engine is the correct year (later than car) but came from a 49 
state car?  The car was registered in California but was originally from 
Chicago.  The way I read the regs is that you *cannot* put a non-California 
engine into a California car (except for engines imported from Japan which 
I think are specifically exempted).   That severely limits my options on 
what I can do with my spare MC engine.  3 out of my 5 cars are from 
California (which I used to think was a desirable factor).

Tony