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Originally Posted by oldE
If originality was not an issue, might not modern, digital fuel injection get an engine which is in otherwise good shape through the tests, or is modification a no no?
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That's a difficult question. Technically, if the car is not exempt you can't change the induction. IDT they will toss you for installing headers as long as you keep the 02 sensors in place and it could be that the header have to be approved as an aftermarket part that complies in CA. But they could give a rat patootie if you lose the heat exchangers.
There has always been the visual check for proper by-the-year smog equipment which would be altered changing to FI. I'm not sure how to treat your question because the now rolling exemption is just that, one year you're still required to obtain a smog cert, and in the case of a '84 car, that goes away entirely in 2030, an '85 in '31, and so on.
The law is fraught with exceptions. They can't do anything simple.