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Speak of the devil lol.
I’m not giving advice on the PCM side
I don’t even have a shop in the back corner of someone elses garage…
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so when the tech scans my registration sticker and plugs the car in, NYS never checks the vin and my 97 could pass with a completely different motor and pcm as long as the monitors are set?
Yes and that old vin wasn’t required in the PCM
i wonder why they even bother to scan the registration then.
i wonder why more people aren’t swapping 96 and newer cars then?
and just so i’m understanding this 100%, my lt1 vin doesn’t need to be in the ls1 pcm?
Because you still need to meet emissions to be technically legal…Most people don’t do full swaps and leave everything mostly stock.
Most people who do swaps don’t run cats etc
You can tune all that stuff out on 98-2002 F-bodys etc but you still need someone to look the other way on the things missing.
Yes but it has to be a obd 2 compliant set up. u need to be able to make every monitor say ready
Which just means leaving the error code enabled and setting it to not report in HP tuners.
If its a gm computer yes
I thought you couldn’t swap engines into different families of cars? ie: Chevy into a Ford, and you couldn’t do a truck engine into a car, because of the emission differences?
They are checking the registration and car vin on the dash (if they even are). Not the vin on the motor lol
for all you know your car now doesn’t even have the original ecu in it
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as long as you’re not getting codes and the car is ready and scannable
Non matching vin is not cause for rejection. There just needs to be a “good” reason for it (junk yard pcm etc…). What might happen is that when its investigated (and it will be) the inspector may want to see the car, and if the vehicle is missing emissions equipt the shop that passed the vehicle for the (visual) part of the EMISSIONS inspection may get in some shit .