Where did you get the same manufacturer bit from? All I'm seeing here is the same rules as the state. As long as an engine/emissions/etc package is certified and the same year as the body or newer, I can dump it in whatever LDV I want to. What I can't do is combine parts that weren't certified, or jump between LDV/HDV.
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Originally Posted by EPA
For light-duty vehicles, installation of a light-duty engine into a different light-duty vehicle by any person would be considered tampering unless the resulting vehicle is identical (with regard to all emission related parts, engine design parameters, and engine calibrations) to a certified configuration of the same or newer model year as the vehicle chassis
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My legalese isn't great, but I'm pretty sure that in English this means it's illegal unless the new engine/emissions/control/etc is identical to a certified configuration of the same year of, or newer than, the vehicle I'm dropping the new engine into.