If I use a HA Sport Mount kit and throw in a H or F series motor in a 93del sol, would it pass CA SMOG?

 

First off, I understand the H22 or H23 but why whould you want an F-series motor in your Sol? About smog legality, motor needs to be USDM, same year or newer then chasis of your car, and you need to swap over all of the OBD/emission stuff from the motor to your Sol. That's the basics.

 

Which means you need to wiring in the EGR!!!

You will loose the A/C and power steering as in there is no room for it.

See my signature.
You can swap a JDM engine but, it must have all of the smog equipment of it's USDM counter part.

 

spade have you ever passed a jdm engine in Ca with out cash udner the table i mean why do you keep sayign this when eeryone else says it wont pass, i have seen all thewebsites and one my fiar share of searchign all it says is jdm will not pass visual you can pass the pipe but not the visual

 

i'm getting my license for state ref this year. i'm telling you now it will never pass smog on cali.PERIOD

 

alright could you maybe list what would pass?

 

My '94 'Sol is '98 'lude powered WITH A/C and it passed the CA ref no problem. The EGR box from a VX bolts to your firewall, BTW and looks much cleaner than a cobbled up POS. Mine smogged as a '95 engine: as long as the engine was in production in an earlier year (still being the same year as your car or newer) you can use emissions equipment from the earlier year (no OBDII for me). We ref alot of our customer's cars and have the dubious honor of dealing with the state refs on a regular basis.

The biggest reason to go for the F-series is cost...actually, the ONLY reason! But beware, even an F is gonna cost max dollar by the time you install it correctly.

 

o k were talking about jdm motor (any jdm)
usdm motor theres 50% change of passing smog on a ref station

some ref will ignore u'r harness seput and some don't so i don't know how u'r **** pass smog or u'r just f@(king w/ us. what i've learned is that if u plug in a lets say... 94 car with a 98+ engine the emission setup has to be 98+.i just can't believe that u'r car pass smog on a ref station

 

Wrong o......I have a friend who has a 95 civic with a 99 GSR.....smogged the engine as a 95! And he has a BAR sticker!!!!

Looks like someone needs to do a little more studying!!!!


[Modified by Spade, 8:39 AM 4/25/2002]

 

sorry i wasnt very clear on that
a replacement engine on the same car using a jdm motor will pass smog (as a replacement only) but if u plug it in on a civic with a single overcam and changing it over to (modify) dohc and specially a imported ingine will not pass smog

 

Nod. Sorry for being an ***......I had to deal with too much traffic coming to work and then saw your response and got defensive.

 

so puttign b16a1 into a CRX will or will not be legal?

 

ttt

 

It depends on the car.........and the local ref here hasn't gotten back to me yet.

 

CRX with a b16 will pass as-long-as the motor is USDM and all the emission system
is plug in

 

hehe....well this doesnt sound too good...cuz i got an appointment with the refs next friday for may crx with a JDM! B18C...

 

please tell us the results!

 

sure will!....everyone cross your fingers

 

hey im using my stock crx air box but with the awkwardness of the gsr TB and IM im using the stock gsr rubber tube...this places my box in a weird angle were i cant bolt the box in the stock position...should i find some way to secure it better since right now its not bolted down at all?

 

my air box (stock crx si box) sits funky too. maybe becuz the (stock) tube is too long.

 

JDM motors are fine, u can REPLACE ur d15 w/ a b18c etc etc.

 

really tha odds b/c everyone is messed up on whats going on

 

94 gsr with a jdm b18c will pass smog just don't go to any ref station and telling them its jdm motor.
Oo yeah its fine it will pass the sniff test but visual won't (cali only)

 

Anyone actually passed with JDM engine????? I really need 2 know

 

Just a word of advice for other Cali residents; If you plan on doing some none CARB legal mods or swapping a JDM engine then finding some place that can "hook you up", pay close attention to your last smog check. Although I passed 2 years ago, I didn't pass by too much on some of the tests. I was wondering why I got a test-only station notice on my renewal, but when I passed this year on the top of the test results under reason for smog it said: "High emmisions profile" or something to that effect. If you get called to go to a test-only station and you have a JDM motor in your car, or other non-carb certified mods, I think your chance of passing might be pretty slim because you can't just to any place and smog it, it has to be a BAR certified test-only center.