CA VIN check and emissions sticker. Location? Options

[MichiganMat]

914World,

Im working to title and plate my '75 914 in CA. I've worked through the lien paperwork and the company Im working with, Registration Express, is ready to do a VIN check. My '75 tub has been sandblasted and resprayed, so any emissions stickers that used to be there are long gone. The rep at RE says that they need to check both the VIN *and* the emissions sticker.

I found a sticker available from AutoAtlanta: http://www.autoatlanta.com/Porsche-Engine-...22133033BH.html

Does anyone know if this is the sticker that my Rep might be referring to?
Where does this sticker go on the car?

Many thanks,
Mat

[JeffBowlsby]

I think this may be a problem but I sincerely hope I am wrong. The CA exemption is for a smog CHECK-only. All vehicles must still comply with CA emission requirements applicable to their year. So you drive up with an engine swap car, cannot pass the smog check and...you cannot get titled in CA.

For anyone thats done this in CA...am I wrong?

That label BTW is for a 49-state 1.8L car. If thats what your car was ... then great. If it was a 2.0L car or a CA-model...it would not be correct.

[SirAndy]

I think this may be a problem but I sincerely hope I am wrong. The CA exemption is for a smog CHECK-only. All vehicles must still comply with CA emission requirements applicable to their year. So you drive up with an engine swap car, cannot pass the smog check and...you cannot get titled in CA.

For anyone thats done this in CA...am I wrong?

That label BTW is for a 49-state 1.8L car. If thats what your car was ... then great. If it was a 2.0L car or a CA-model...it would not be correct.

Actually, i did some digging on this when i swapped in the 3.6L engine.

First off, Jeff is correct, you are only exempt from the smog *check*, you still must comply with whatever the smog requirements were at the time.

And here is where this gets a bit more complicated, when you do an engine swap, your car (Since it's a '75) is still exempt from the test but you will have to have the smog equipment from the year of your engine that you are swapping in!

So in my case, the car is exempt from testing since it's a '70 but technically, i have to have the smog equipment installed that came with my '95 993 engine.

I've never seen them actually enforce that but if they really wanted to, they could make you install all the original smog equipment that came with your WRX engine.
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