350 V8 in Mazda Pickup

I would be intersted in seeing pictures. I used to build custom Lowriders out of Mazda's I had an 86 B-2200 2 89 B-2000's They are the best looking mini truck to use for Lowridin' in my opinion. Have a Great One ! Bob

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:52:24 -0800, Rick Ruskin put forth the notion that...

How did you get it smogged and registered in So Cal with a non-stock engine in it, since it's less than 25 years old?

He's had this on eBay before. I saw it there when I was looking around the autos... I'd like to know why it didn't sell there....buyer beware................

~KJ - an eGay power seller~

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:39:33 GMT, KJ put forth the notion that...

Most likely because it isn't street legal in California, and probably doesn't have current registration.

The pix I saw of it would best be described as "bleh" also. The miss-matched wheels also put me off....

~KJ~

Hi Checky!

I don't recall exact details, but I did read somewhere that even those unlucky enough to live in California could do such things to vehicles if certain criteria were met. I think one of the rules was that the vehicle had to have a sticker on the body somewhere stating that the vehicle's power train was not original but had been tested to comply with smog and other regulations and had passed.

Just a guess, which I'm good at. Can't even think where I read it.

William The Guesser

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:21:13 GMT, William R. Walsh put forth the notion that...

I've got a neighbor down the street with a similar mess, and he's had nothing but trouble trying to get it registered. In his case, he bought the truck with an earlier engine already in it. It came with a special exemption sticker because the engine swap had been made before the State passed the law prohibiting it. I'm not sure why he had problems since he had the sticker, but he ended up having to go to a smog "referee" station, where they told him he couldn't get it passed with the wrong engine in it. Seems that everyone he's talked to has told him something different, so now he's stuck with a pig in a poke. As I understand it, if the body is more than 25 years old, you can do whatever you want to it, but if it isn't, you're at the mercy of whoever inspects it each time. If one idiot decides to flag it for some reason, you're screwed. Not only that, they put it in the State computer, so it follows you if you try to take it somewhere else.

Hi!

Eeeeugh. I'm sure glad I don't live in CA.

-- William

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