I live in ca. do you have to smog a 67 camaro with a newer motor in it

I live in ca. do you have to smog a 67 camaro with a newer motor in it

no, it won't go through smog testing. However, it's still illegal to remove smog equipment, or not keep the car smog legal. Newer engine swaps, to stay legal in California, need to retain all the smog equipment that the engine originally had in whatever vehicle it came from.



Jody

Hey Jody, How does that work if you bought a new crate motor?

I plan to register mine in NV this year anyway but I'm curious.


Rich

Hey Jody, How does that work if you bought a new crate motor?

I plan to register mine in NV this year anyway but I'm curious.


Rich

If it's an old school crate motor they'd only want whatever smog would have been on the car new with a V8. If it's an LSX swap crate, I'm not sure what they'd want you to do, but likely would involve going to a smog referee to determine how it needed to be. Again, not an issue at this point as you're not being tested, but that doesn't mean they can't catch something in a roadside sniffer or an over-zealous officer wanting to look under your hood, and require you to report for a smog check.

Jody

Jody you've got it right, do you know Mark Frasier? He's a long time Campbell Auto Restoration employee. Anyway he did a modern FI swap into his 2nd gen many moons back and at the time his car was not exempt, the car was held to the smog standards and visuals of the year of car the engine came out of in order for him to get it on the road. There was a write up in one of the mags (chp or sc) about it last year. It a beautiful green '72 I believe...

If the car is exempt like the '67 in question it doesn't have to be smogged annually but still is required to be smog legal. A visual is enough for an officer of the law to send you to the smog ref. At that point you would be held accountable for passing smog and visual for what ever year car your conversion engine was intended for.