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Does anyone know for sure what the new laws are? Ive read through some on the dep of trans site and from what i have read, ecu / suspension / engine mods / brakes all need mod plates which is nothing new or anything to get worried about. I rang the department hotline and the guy seemed adamant that all cars must now emit the same CO2 emissions as they had from factory regardless of mod plates and a new facitlity will be up and running round April for testing. Can anyone say for sure if this is correct or false? Will this apply to club cars aswell? If it is true i would say alot of people are in the same boat as me.

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Cars have always needed to meet emissions laws regardless of mod plates, etc. this means that 99% of imports with aftermarket ecu's are illegal (except ones that have had an emissions compliant tune done), and plenty of imports with stock ecus, but running higher boost, aftermarket cat convertors, etc, would also fail (and plenty do when tested)

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Does anyone know for sure what the new laws are? Ive read through some on the dep of trans site and from what i have read, ecu / suspension / engine mods / brakes all need mod plates which is nothing new or anything to get worried about. I rang the department hotline and the guy seemed adamant that all cars must now emit the same CO2 emissions as they had from factory regardless of mod plates and a new facitlity will be up and running round April for testing. Can anyone say for sure if this is correct or false? Will this apply to club cars aswell? If it is true i would say alot of people are in the same boat as me.

Yep. Sounds right.

Problem is, who has that information? And all of us who've changed to E85 automatically have a giant middle finger extended out our window at DOT when it comes time to test for emissions

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so what kind of power figure could be run on a e85 tune and still pass emissions? I thought they use to do DB test not emissions test? Either way still trying to decide whethers its worth moding anymore if they are going to start cracking down on it...

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I always wondered about 26/30 combos because from memory the law was you couldn't transplant an older engine into a newer car which I thought transplanting the block of an older engine would fall into that category. It was done so people with older cars putting newer engines would have to meet the emission standard of the newer engine not the older car.

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its the only way to identify the age of the whole motor (they assume you would never ever take the head off and put it on another motor)

they assume wrong.

im in the process of doing a 26/30, series 2 vl block.

so, more or less same manufacture dates as my 89 model 32 rb26.

as already mentioned, tell them its from a later model car.

my understanding in NSW is the emissions gear has to be that of the newer componant, car or engine.

newer engine, has to meet the emissions of the engine year of manufacture.

newer car, has to meet the requirements of the cars manufacture date.

may be different in QLD, but would be good to know.

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