So does this mean that if you were unfortunate (example) enough to have your completely smog free 67 built to the hilt Dodge window a block, and got a late model 440 BLOCK out of, say, a motorhome, that simply using a late REPLACEMENT block gets you into the "lotto smog" arena?
Last I knew, there were only two southern counties that required emissions checks, but up here in NORTHern Idaho (It's a state of the mind) they were rattling around about smog checks, due to Spokane air drifting over here
Not if you can prove the motor home engine came out of a truck/chassis with a GVWR above a certain amount, OR the combination never legally existed under federal emission standard laws for that year/vehicle, provided the ENGINE is earlier than the vehicle. {I can't say if this applies to OBDII equipped cars as well, having never owned one, most likely those are 100% taboo.}
I found this out by calling the head cheese over MVI at the DPS office in Midland. I told him I was having hell getting a sticker, and explained that no 440 engine ever came stock with converters, and indeed was never offered in an '84 year model truck, the 440 having gone out of production in '78 in light trucks.
I also explained my truck came with a scant 6, and would he please explain to me how to make scant 6 emission controls compliant on a combination that never existed, hence was not a federally approved setup to begin with? How am I going to put a scant 6 fuel control carb and air cleaner on a 440?
He chuckled a little, and said I'd have to take it to the Dodge house, get them to verify the casting date, VIN on the block, and the CID, get a statement, have it notarized, and show that to the inspection people, who could then call him to OK it. I'd still have to have all pertinent '74 equipment, choke, heat riser, stock air cleaner etc. that came on a '74 D200.
The thing had a semi-nasty cam, 750 Holley with no choke, an unheated single plane, 1 7/8" long tube headers. {3200 stall, ET Streets and spooled 4.88's to boot, shitpot full of fun but irrelevant here.} That's when I decided to hell with the goofy bastids and just parked the truck.
I still have the body sans engine, but pissonit. I'm eyeballing a somewhat sunburned but rust free '65 Barracuda,asking $2200, but I can likely get it for less, complete 273 4spd car. I can drop a '90 roller 360 in it and nobody will be the wiser. "273? Why hell yes that's a 273."
Oddly enough, there are no sniffer tests in this area, visual only. But they make that a pain in the *** a-plenty. A high beam indicator you can't see clearly in the daytime? Just shoot me.
