snora

still looking for California streetable 951 v 8 conversion

any out there?

odurandina

Call Eric Hill. he may have a car available.

Texas Performance Concepts - Alvarado, TX...

http://www.texasperformanceconcepts.com/contact.html

acorad

California streetable is not a common animal. It can be done though...

docwyte

If you want it to be California CARB legal it needs to have the stock V8 exhaust manifolds. Most of us have headers, which aren't CARB legal.

rlm328

Get a vette and be done with it.

Tom M'Guinn

Did you buy your car from Craig in San Ramon, CA? He had a white one that looked like your avatar and was able to get the coveted CA BAR sticker for it.

acorad

Craig built the car, although I got it from someone else.

Tom M'Guinn

Great car and plenty quick...

Jfrahm

Can you work with the stock logs or do you need headers to fit?

V2Rocket

good luck with this ****ing state...

i asked a BAR referee supervisor if i could take a 5.3 vortec motor, bore it to 99mm and install all LS1 parts (pistons/rods/heads/cam/intake/exhaust/computer), so it would be identical to an LS1 with the ONLY difference being the material the block was made of...they said no, it's a truck motor and therefore "probably a gross polluter". he asked why i wanted to do that versus buying an LS1 and i explained the $2-3000 price difference...he just said "good luck with that"

odurandina

Arizona registration. i bet people try that and get caught and spend 10 years in prison.

NZ951

Buy a 928 if you want a V8

docwyte

Joel, headers make it much easier. Here in Colorado there's no reason not to use them, as emissions doesn't care.

You can make the stock exhaust manifolds work, but it's more to deal with.

acorad

Ya, in CA the conversion engine has to be from the same class - car to car, truck to truck.

My OEM exhaust manifolds from the 2002 Camaro SS, which had the flanges modified in order to fit the conversion, are off the car now and being used as templates for another CA guy who's doing the conversion. I believe he's making some drawings of my modded flanges for the use of other CA folks. If he doesn't, I probably will.

With the modded OEM manifolds, you also need to mod the steering shaft with a u-joint/heim. I don't know for sure, but I think RH sells a motor mount which incorporates a mounting bracket to support the modded steering shaft.

V2Rocket

Those laws are asinine, especially in the case of the GM stuff - I would put down money in saying that the Vortec motors burn cleaner and get better MPG than the stock 944 engine, even with twice+ the power.

In the case of my inquiry to BAR, the ONLY part remaining from the truck engine would be the engine block itself - aside from the bore of the cylinders, how much can the block affect emissions? The LS motors even have steel liners!

F*ck this place.