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Old 12-10-2013, 12:28 PM   #52
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Not sure about most of the US, but in Ontario (Canada) it's 100% illegal to swap in an older engine to any car. Now if you put a 2013 engine into a 2014 chassis of the same car I doubt anyone would notice, but if you tried to put a 94 Supra engine into a 2013 FRS/BRZ, it wouldn't be legal and unless the shop doing the e-test "overlooked" it by running a different car through the OBD test you'd never pass a test.

It's a big problem for a bunch of people that downgraded OBDII hondas to OBDI ECU's, it's impossible for them to pass an e-test now.
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