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post Apr 21, 2003 - 12:34 AM
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I keep getting contradicting info. One site says the engine will not meet smog, and yet people have swapped the engine into US Celica's. I Live in California where all the regulations are the strictest, is it legal to swap in the 3s-gte or not?
 
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post Apr 23, 2003 - 7:17 PM
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is it possible to make the 3rd gen 3s-gte smog legal or not? I also heard that it would take some work making a 2nd gen smog legal also... What I heard is that an EGR would be really hard to add because the engine would need recasting in certain areas, and a 2nd gen would be smog legal but only for 93 smog specs, not 97 like my car is... The guy I talked to about all this said that in his 74 toyota the engine head was cracked or something and he went to a junkyard and got a 73 head, but 74 was the first year an egr was added... therefore he had nowhere to put the egr plugs. He said he just put some holes or something and made it look like the egr was made to fit. Would this be possible with a 3rd gen?

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- Chrobis   I'm Lost   Apr 21, 2003 - 12:34 AM
- - Benevolence   No, not legal in california unless you have illega...   Apr 21, 2003 - 2:42 AM
- - Chrobis   Is it legal in other states, and by illegal connec...   Apr 21, 2003 - 8:57 AM
- - Supersprynt   Its legal to swap a US-Spec 3sgte, and its not ill...   Apr 21, 2003 - 9:02 AM
- - Chrobis   5s-fe with 130 hp or 3s-gte with 250 - the 25... h...   Apr 21, 2003 - 1:47 PM
- - Benevolence   In california I hear its nothing but a pain in the...   Apr 21, 2003 - 3:04 PM
- - Supersprynt   QUOTE (Chrobis @ Apr 21, 2003 - 2:01 PM) 5s-fe wit...   Apr 21, 2003 - 4:39 PM
- - Chrobis   is it possible to make the 3rd gen 3s-gte smog leg...   Apr 23, 2003 - 7:17 PM
- - zigy   dude you are always going to have problems... but ...   Apr 23, 2003 - 9:16 PM
- - Chrobis   yeh but this is California, or anal town USA... I ...   Apr 24, 2003 - 1:05 AM
- - Matthew   no it can not well unless you have connections i...   Apr 24, 2003 - 2:09 AM
- - Benevolence   QUOTE (igotta5S-FEturbo @ Apr 23, 2003 - 11:23 PM)...   Apr 24, 2003 - 3:27 AM
- - Matthew   oh yea well sorry. umm... Chrobis i would say to...   Apr 24, 2003 - 8:18 AM
- - XE_Nathaniel   heres teh CARB Law.../ "Cars may swap engine...   Apr 25, 2003 - 11:59 PM
- - Matthew   yo nate the 3s-gte has been produced up till 19...   Apr 26, 2003 - 2:22 AM
- - Coomer   QUOTE (GT2GT4 @ Apr 25, 2003 - 11:36 PM) yo nate ...   Apr 26, 2003 - 2:34 AM
- - Matthew   oh yea i always forget about the dang caldina. ...   Apr 26, 2003 - 2:37 AM
- - Chrobis   So is it feasible for me to do this or not. The la...   Apr 26, 2003 - 3:48 PM
- - Matthew   you can do the 2nd gen its less expensive and has...   Apr 26, 2003 - 4:09 PM
- - Inferno   What about this? I heard that if the engine wasn...   Apr 26, 2003 - 5:23 PM
- - XE_Nathaniel   checked the law..its same year or above.....which ...   Apr 27, 2003 - 3:08 AM


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