How do you guys in cali pass your smog test with your hybrids besides paying someone off. I really don't have anyone that i can pay off. do i swap the stock back in everytime in need a smog or what? help me out here. i would hate to be stuck with my stock engine.

 

use a motor same year as the chasis or newer
make sure that you run all the smog equipment that comes with that year or newer.
and you must take it to a ref station , to get it certified

 

honestly bro.. i have no idea.. i lived in cali back in the day but i was like 10 when we moved out here and i never even drove then.. i know you gotta get it passed somehow or its a ticket.. i do know nowadays its all in the people you know.. i try to meet and make friends from all areas and work places.. never know when there gonna need something you can give them if they can help you..

*and i dont think someone can just go out and tell you who they pay to pass the smog check on this board cause they could get shut down..

good luck

 

where would a "ref" station be?

 

you need to go to a BAR center. make an appointment and a bar/smog ref will check your car for all the emission required stuff, then he will either smog it there or send you to get it to another place to get smogged. if you pass they will put a cute lil sticker on the side of your door letting smog centers know your legal to smog.

 

http://www.smogcheck.ca.gov/stdhome.asp

Run a search there. It'll have everything you need.
Your car will pass smog as long as all the smog equipment is hooked up and a-ok.

Oh...and there's still the fact of emissions too..

 

buy the smog technician a case of beer.....j/k..........ur better off finding someone witha hybrid transplant and ask them where they got their smog passed....some places have decoy car's....that they use to pass ...and they thow u cars's info along with the certificate....its not really hard..i live in so cali ..and thers like 10 diff..places that do hybrid smog's

 

well the reason i am asking is that my friend knows this guy who is willing to sell me a b18c5 for around $2500. he built it up has low miles and all the goodies. i figured that i would see what else i would have to do to get the swap done in a 92 civic hb. is it a good deal or what? will it be worth it?

 

make sure you get paper work on it!!! also make sure you get it checked out by somebody.
keith

 

a few places in so cali that i know of dont really care waht you have under the hood, just as long as it will pass smog (meaning, they dont care about visual)

 

200 dolla make u holla..i just got my illegal done.

but i got friends with 1st gen b16as in EGs that pass smog. just go to the small mom and pop check stations and make sure u got a good cat, and all your smog equipment installed, if that **** passes they dont really care..they getting their money, they dont sweat engine codes and years as much as other people. now the ref is a diff story.

 

just make sure that is all legit , cause for that price , thats super cheap!