thinking about putting a bigger engine in?

[sixty-nine]

most of the people that have newer rigs that want to swap out their engines usually have to either one register their vehicel in a area that doesnt do IM's or two change the vin plate and title to show an older vehicel.

today i had to go to the IM place to get my truck smogged. while i was there i found out some interesting information. its totally legal to put a bigger engine in your rig as long as you one tell them the size of the motor. two meet the requirements for that year....ie fuel injection motor replace with a fuel injection motor that runs clean.

all and all they were pretty cool about it. i asked if they ran across rigs like what i wanted to do and they said yes all the time. oh and they love rigs that are powered by propane.

this was per the manager at the auburn IM place

 

[Binder]

Beware.....That may be the story now but they change the standards every year. Next year after you do the swap it will likely be a different story.

 

[sixty-nine]

Beware.....That may be the story now but they change the standards every year. Next year after you do the swap it will likely be a different story.

i should have added that everyone that wants to do this should check with their local IM place.

btw i have a back up plan if this does change. thank gawd for having friends that own car lots:clappy: :flipoff:

 

[zig80toy]

still a little confused: When you put the bigger motor in you still have to pass emissions as per the origional motor? Or, do you have to pass emissions as per the donor vehicle??

 

[JOOP]

we dont need no stinking emissions test :flipoff:


Stroke the motor you have now. :redneck:

 

[junkyard jim]

The motor has to be same year or newer than the rig and emissions are done to that donor vehicle UNLESS it is a truck to car engine swap.