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Originally Posted by Baltothewolf
If you don't mind my asking, how do you get this to pass smog? We all know how ridiculous California is with emissions haha.
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California is actually one of the easier states in which to get a diesel conversion titled and out of the smog program altogether. I know that's altogether counterintuitive based on virtually everything else about the late great state of CA, but...
There are only three things to concerned with
[1] The donor engine must be from the same year or later as the target vehicle
[2] All smog equipment must be installed and working as on the donor vehicle
[3] The donor engine must be from the same "class" of vehicle - i.e. you can't put a truck diesel in a passenger car.
If it meets those criteria, you take it to the BAR smog referee (Bureau of Automotive Repair) where they inspect and verify the above criteria and give you paperwork that you then take to DMV where they reissue a title with the Motive Power changed to "diesel". Since it is pre-99 it is thereafter smog exempt.
