[surfsup]

Hey is this going to be a street or strip car? I did the 4 cyl to 8 cyl swap and went carb, don’t know if fuel injection would have made much of a difference, but one thing I did not find or was told about before going about the swap. DMV.. Division of motor vehicle. Now I know all states are different, I live in New Jersey and getting my car through inspection was in possible, when they punched in the serial number of my car the emission settings are set for a 2.3 four cyl, not a 5.0, so I’m sure I don’t have to tell you what happened, but I will, it failed, impossible for the 5.0 to meet the four cyl reading, I even took my car to a buddy of mine who owns a garage, we set the car up on the emission machine and could not get that thing to meet the four cyl spec’s, now like I said earlier, if I went fuel injection I might of met the standards, but according to my buddy he said no, impossible, So what did I do? I had to register the car as a collector car which exempt me from inspection, but also will only allow me 3000 miles a year to drive the car, now I’m sure there’s ways to get around this mileage thing, but my point is, check your emission laws for your state, you might be better off buying a 5.0 and then do your thing..at lease at inspection time you’ll have some options to get it to pass..doing the engine swap with my dad is something I’ll never for get, the time we spent and the fun we had doing this was priceless, and I really can’t wait to do our next project together, he thinks we can sneak my moms 440 six pack from her 70 charger RT that’s in storage right now waiting for funds to restore the car. Well I didn’t write all this stuff to discourage you, but I wish it was something I was informed about, because to tell you the truth, it sucks seeing my car sit more the driving it. TMTC.