S54 swap CA legal help

[rlddlr53]

You can go that route. Much easier.

Will be a pita to get it ca bar legal.

I wanted to do an s54 swap awhile back and then went in a diff direction.

If you don't have the ignition, ews, and dme with the coded keys, it costs around 1500 maybe 1000 to get the ecu ews delete.

[Bimmer_man]

You can go that route. Much easier.

Will be a pita to get it ca bar legal.

I wanted to do an s54 swap awhile back and then went in a diff direction.

If you don't have the ignition, ews, and dme with the coded keys, it costs around 1500 maybe 1000 to get the ecu ews delete.

Yeah i think im going to go that rout. that way i have the freedom to do what ever the heck i want to my car.

[xxx-Lost-Soul-xxx]

.i almost wonder if i could get another states PO box and reg it at that PO box cause i have a friend in Colorado who would be down for that or even just use his address. As long as my car seems inconspicuous like it looks stock with Colorado plates generally a cop wont bug me. Would anyone suggest going that rout? I could just say im viseting for a few months with family or some BS.

Only problem is that if the Same cop sees you he WILL pull you over.
The way to get out of This is say Your a student who is from out of state.

Maybe find like a CC parking sticker or UTI? I think 7 months out of the year is the max,so he may try to Lie to catch you in a Lie.

[Bimmer_man]

well i am enrolled in school LOL so that may actually help lol.

[yert315]

you don't want to go through the hassle of paying a guy to pass the car, but you'll go through the hassle of registering it in a completely different state to get by? Sounds ridiculous.

[Bimmer_man]

you don't want to go through the hassle of paying a guy to pass the car, but you'll go through the hassle of registering it in a completely different state to get by? Sounds ridiculous.

its actually not that big of a hassle when i have to go to the state 2 times a year.

And its a lot easier than doing the swap back to the M20 and then back to the S54. that alone would detour me from doing the swap.

[MR 325]

You realize you can just pay for a "special" smog and not swap engines back and forth right?

[oldmann]

Depending on where your friend lives in Colo., you will need to pass a Colo. emissions test to register it.

Colo. E test is second only to Calif.