Are engine swaps legal where ypou live?

I have no idea, but that's just the tip of the iceberg of the batship insane retardation of German car regulations

Yes, but you need to register your car again since its engine is part of the registered data.

>being so cucked that you have to notify the government that you changed a part in your horseless carriage

and I thought state inspections were bad.

Yeah, but they have to be well executed, mustn't worsen the emissions (so you can generally only swap to a newer engine, makes it easiest on pre-cat cars) and with considerable power increase you also have to strengthen and improve various other parts of the car to get it through inspections. Basically easier to just buy a more powerful car to begin with.

Also it's a lie that swap engines must be from the same manufacturer in Germany, it just makes it easier with the engine mounts and electronics and everything. You'll find ten swaps where they simply put in a larger engine from the same model or a higher displacement version of the engine from the same manufacturer before finding one completely novel swap.

ls2 swap in a thing is still one of the all time best swaps. admit it, its not even close to fitting

I know, right
It started off as a way to tax cars that were considered unnecessarily fancy by making registration more expensive when you have a powerful engine, it changed a fex times and since the late 90s your registeration fee will take your engine and your emission rate into account to discourage people fromgetting cars with big and/or polluting engines.
You need buttloads more infos to register your vehicle but realisticaly if you have a change in the weight of the empty vehicle, nobody will ever notice it and even if you get controlled that sure won't be checked. You can get away with an unregistered engine-swap easily since it hardly ever gets controlled (you'd need to get into some serious legal trouble to get every bit of your registered info checked anyway) but if you're caught, you are so fucked.
But hey, we're talking about France here, the only country in the world that has a legal limitation on the power of motorbikes because reasons.

Well kind of, it needs to be registered and changed in the documents and sometimes they just might say that your car isnt street legal with this engine and you would need to swap it again and try for it to be registered again
if police does a check and anything is diffrent than its said in your document, you are fucked

If you don't hack it together and get it through a specialized inspection you can register it as road-legal with the new engine and power output and all.

God I hate these regulations, shit like that just encourages stancefags and ricer soys.

I hate German car culture

sounds like a broad strokes measure made by a governing body that knows fuck all about cars

>want to get into hot-rodding
>be in yuropistan
>every technical challenge is nothing compared to the legalese and administrative hell that will come with anything you want to do
>anything too adventurous will never even be road legal
K I L L M E

Yes, but only if all emissions components are left in place and the engine is from the same year or newer vehicle. You then have to go to a "smog referee" to get it okayed

>If the car is anything other than registered historic it will have to pass the same admissions of the requirements for that model year (ie no straight piping), but those are generally pretty lax.

>For anything over 25 years all it needs to do is pass a cursory glance of "yep that's a car"
This is NJ

>are engine swaps legal where ypou live?

lol no

t.belgium

>rural 3rd world

what is law???

You Americans have no idea how lucky you are. Man I can't imagine being a mechanic living in the backwoods of Montana just cruising down the highway at 180 mph in my V8 swapped RX7 or ripping the Rocky mountain dirt road Twisties in my V8 swapped Miata then coming home to a cold refreshing V8 smoothie made from my V8 swapped blender.

That's car guy Nirvana right there, bois.

>v8 swapped rx7

cuckold soyboi; the post, of course he has a furfaggot image

let me guess, GERMan??

Did I hit a nerve, m'rotard?

>t. furfaggot

sorry, you lose by default

In Texas, the only place you would have to mention it is on the state inspection form. It asks for engine size, and the state computer will read the vin off you ecm. So it's best to put disclose the engine size in case you get audited because the ecm vin won't match the vehicle vin. Which really is just prove you weren't hooking up another vehicle to the inspection machine to get a clean emissions pass.

tl;dr yes engine swaps are legal

Says the guy posting Chinese cartoons on a monégasque basket weaving board. You disgust me.

Nevada doesn't give a fuck. Especially if you aren't in Clark or Washoe county (Las Vegas or Reno) since the rural counties don't check emissions. All vehicles must have a muffler though.

>t. furfaggot

stop being attracted to animals and try again

Location: Maryland, USA

you can swap whatever you want except rocket/jet engines i guess lol

if the body of the car is 25 years old then you can put historic tags on it and that means no emmissions or inspections required.

also tags are only like 75 bucks every 2 years

I swapped a RB25 into an S13 hatchback because I like how they sound and I can daily it and cops only pulled me over to look at it and ask me questions because they're enthusiasts lol

Why swap an LS in it? Why not rebuild the dorito and slap a tarbo on it, you know, kinda like how they made them in the factory
OOhhhhh because its cheap easy crate motor you can slap in and the former requires effort

>not putting something interesting in it
>doing the same thing everyone else does
>ironically thinking you are cool for it

>why didn't you put a finicky engine that needs to be babied back in and add a turbo to make it even more of a pain in the ass instead of one that is cheap and reliable and only adds a hundred pounds to the overall weight.

I don't exactly condone taking working engines out of an FD and put a ls in it, but if I bought a ratty FC that needed an engine for $1500, I'd probably stick something else in it besides a rotary (assuming it literally has no engine).
I wouldn't go out looking for a health FD to pull working engines from to put a ls1 in though.

You disgust me. I bet you would change VAZ-21018 engine to a VAZ-2101, like the little faggot you are.
Literally the Hummer H2-tier retardness right there.

>too stupid to mantain a rotary
>thinks he will be able to swap an engine

just GM soyboi things

Yes, guy I know swapped a I6 from an e46 into his e30 320i and put rx8 seats in it
Did it in a parking lot over the course of quite a while

>have to premix it like a lawnmaster weed wacker
>can't drive without letting the engine warm up for 10 minutes or it will damage it
>can't shut it off cold either or you can lose compression and flood it
>gets btfo by engines used in farm equipment

These ls1 vs rotary arguments are just stupid, an ls1 would be better if you actually are going to drive it daily since it is less finicky, a rotary is better as a toy.

Rotary engines are fine, I don't think people should swap a solid motor out of a clean FD just to put a v8 in. If someone has a old barn find rx7 that is already ugly and beat, I don't see the harm in putting a piston engine in it.

>this is what GM soybois tell to themselves everynight

lol, enjoy spending 10k to properly swap a junkyard LS

for that money you can have a, 800hp 13b

sperg more soyboi

*blocks ur path*

probably, i've never checked

as for countries where it's illegal, have you tried car swapping around the engine?

Legal, yes (Ontario).

What is technically not legal is not telling your insurance company about it. Everyone I have encountered so far has never reported the swap to their insurance company (for fear of higher rates, no doubt).

Mind you it's not a big deal, but if you get into a crash, you bet the insurance company will try to use it as a way to deny coverage. And it's technically fraud.

Nice boat anchor user

1996 and older you can do whatever
newer has to worry about emissions and shit but Ive heard you can swap a same year or newer engine

v8s are boring as hell swaps for non car guys tho

1995 and older*

did you break down?

In California swaps are legal as long as you use the emissions equipment from the donor vehicle. I feel bad for you eurocucks

In Utah you can swap but if you live in the big 3 counties you have to get emission testing every year. It's also an ongoing discussion whether or not the engine needs to be of the same year or newer, it doesn't specifically say this in the laws but it is the general consensus.

yeag us real enthusiasts swap overboosted 3 pots into everything

In the uk the emissions test go off of either the year of the chassis of the car or the year of the engine you're swapping in, whichever's oldest

They're even legal in California

My buddy had a LS1 swapped 944 he basically just pulled everything from a wrecked camaro including the smog shit and it was bar approved.

Clark county is slowly becoming California full of soyfags and emissions shit

There are ZERO engine swap laws in Florida. Shit just needs cats. They never check anyway so whatever

>Can Legally swap a twingo's engine for a huge V-8
>Can replace the belt of said twingo with one found in an old bumper car
>Can Legally lengthen the body and chassis, however i have to let it get tested for structural integrity
>Can't weld a rusty Nail to the roof because it would become a safety hazzard

Portugal

Technically yes, but with so much bureaucratic shit in it, it might as well just be illegal.

First you need to present a detailed description of your project to:
>The IMTT (which is our DMV)
>The manufacturer
>Or if the brand refuses, an independent auto engineer
You need approval from all of them, otherwise the swap is already dead, and this alone will set you back about 500€ in fees.

Next up is tax adjustment, and this is where it gets fucked up, if you're increasing the displacement you have to cover the tax difference as if it was a new car. I already told this story a couple times: a friend building a Mitsubishi Colt Gti replica was quoted for the 1.3 to 1.8 increase...7500€. Yes, Seven thousand five hundred.

Finally, you have a B type inspection to make sure the car is safe. Yes it's "only" 200€, but it just adds insult to injury, and you might need to repeat it if it fails.

afaik they are legal here in polan
there's a ton of swapped bimmers that are still 316i's on paper and in insurance

They're legal in Alberta and BC. You're technically supposed to tell your insurance but most people don't. No emission testing or regulations whatsoever.

Oh shit. Yeah, I was spooked because my little 80hp fiero was actually a 300hp deathkart with 3 working-ish brakes and blown everything. Would this have fucked my insurance nicely?

I looked into this a while back when me and my friend where having a discussion of engine vs vehicle age in terms of swapping. If I remember correctly for NJ it said that if:
>Engine older than vehicle
The vehicle must meet its required emissions
>Vehicle older than engine
Vehicle must meet newer engine's emissions
>Gas into Diesel
Must meet Gas emissions
>Diesel into Gas
Must meet Gas emissions

I think it was buried somewhere but I could be wrong

Only same maker same specs or homologated for the same platform

>soyboy
>deadlifting a small block v8
Are you actually retarded?

There's places where engine swapping is illegal?

>not deadlifting a big block
soyboi confirmed

In California, yeah. But it must be the same year or newer. You have to bring all the emissions equipment along to the host vehicle. They have to be from the same engine family (sort of). Any aftermarket parts have to be legal to the new engine, not the host vehicle. CARB laws are kind of hard, but not difficult to get away with. Just carefully reading the rules, and if you can get in touch with people who have done this, or a smog referee or three. It can be done.

Where?

this is seriously fucked fucked up. i literally have no words.

not for long with socialists/neo-commies and in charge, everything that isn't an 80hp euro 6 automatic diesel cuckbox will soon be illegal to own or taxed to hell.

you forgot to mention that, technically, there's no option to register kit cars,
and with this "new and improved" registry there's (supposedly) no option to even choose/input different/custom engine size

>and you've taken countermeasures to stop the additional power (i.e. better brakes?)

Makes no sense. You need brakes to stop inertia. A non brain dead driver will take their foot off the accelerator when attempting to stop.

Your regulators need to go back to remedial car school.

>engine is part of the registered data

Where? Not in my state.

>UK
Yes, do what you like. UK car modification regulations are surprisingly liberal.

>living in a cuck country

>this is seriously fucked fucked up. i literally have no words.

Expect nothing less from a cuckcountry where, and brace yourself for this one, you need written authorization from the car's manufacturer if you want to change your tyre size. And I already got burned on this one.

>165/65 14 tyres. Good tyres in this size are almost extinct now, so I want to switch to 185/60 14
>I can't, when I requested this from Opel they said no

Hoping this will change now that Opel is under the PSA group, which is a lot more relaxed on this matter, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.

If 1996-present: as long as it passes emissions

1995-older: do what you want, as long as you pay the county the ridiculous registration fee

>israel here
Everything is illegal here, and I mean everything. Its illegal to touch anything related to the cars mechanical stuff, even a simple custom air filter is illegal, and dont even think of the engine. Unless of course you get allowed to by the ministry of licensing which is basically impossible and never happens...

So of course you gotta do this illegally but the police has a whole division dedicated to finding those modded cars and nailing their owners

Pls send help

>even the jews get jewed
we are one of soul

bc is definitely the most based province

madagascar not seeming so bad now hmm?

kek'd
>oy gevalt

yeah, you just have to pass emissions and document the swap with the motor registry thing.

>I can't put something in my car because the govt says nono
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