Engine repower and emmisions

[LTb1ow]

This may sound crazy and if you see any gaping holes in my plan please let me know. So as now, my car will never pass emissions, its how I set it up and I am not concerned with emissions till next July. My plan was to rebuild the shortblock for forced induction and run a more emissions friendly cam. However, I just relized that the 96 LT1s were OBDII. So if I were to repower with a 96 block and run OBDII, would I still get a sniff test or would it be just the plug and play deal?

[sweetbmxrider]

plug in! FTW!!!

though the program is changing soon. i'll keep you up to date. you should still be ok but ya never KNOW!

[LTb1ow]

Wait so that makes sense? They would just check the computer and I could be all cool like the LS1s???

[sweetbmxrider]

96+ are OBD-II "plug-in" tests. as long as there is no check engine light and all the monitors are set (couple other things too) you are good to go. get that crap tuned out

[LTb1ow]

But how would they know to check the computer vs the sniff test?

[sweetbmxrider]

oh i misread your post. sorry you fail. sniff test. our cars are OBD-I. we suck.

[LTb1ow]

Well thats the whole idea. If I repower with a 96 OBDII can they tell? and then just plug in?

[sweetbmxrider]

nope. the vin will still be for an OBD-I vehicle so they will not know if you converted or anything. even if you did convert it, its still a 95 so you will be a tail pipe test. converting to an OBD-II car would be rediculous.