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Subject:EPA/CA/NUTTY ENGINE SWAP GUIDELINES!
From:Robert A. Alexander
Date:Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:00:19 -0500

Volks - Anyone tried to get into EPA regulations, on the Net, which
might explain this business involving swapping an engine "older" than
one's vehicle one is swapping it into?  Jeez!

Best I could do is find a few "hot-rod" sites!!!  Even learned a new
term, obviously from California, of "smogged".  Seems, as an example, in
the PRC (People's Republic of California), the consensus is that a '71
Chevy with a '69 engine will be "smogged" as a '71.  A '69 Chevy with a
'71 engine will be "smogged as a '71, too.  Gee, at least the
legislators in the PRC are, uh, consistent?

So far, our "wise men" in TN still understand that the "smog" in the
valley around the Chattanooga Valley is still a result of natural
"inversions" rather than automobiles.  Can SOMEONE direct me to EPA
regulations that are destined to keep me from placing a 1200cc Harley
Hog engine or a 1600cc VW air-cooled into my Vanagon???

BOB - WA4RRN
'85GL - "Bourgeois"
Soddy Daisy, TN