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Brisbane
Registered:
February 2003
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Re: Legalities towards aftermarket ignition computers?
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Sat, 10 December 2005 10:07
 
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in theory not legal, then again most insurance companies are scumbag thieves who'd do anything to get out of their obligations to pay out a claim. Make the ECU easy to remove/change?
Transplanted engines should performs to, or better, the factory emissions of the chassis (or is that engine?) that it's bolted into. If the ignition ECU simply improves the spark then it's not going to affect emissions values greatly, but if it alters the timing curve you could end up with out-of-range emissions.
In theory, you shouldn't be able to alter the tuning of the engine as that may affect its ability to operate within its original emissions specifications.
Having said that, if i were to put any kind of EFI engine with spark control (tunable or not) into my humble RA40 it will do better than the turd-box-18RC - emissions and peformance-wise.
Adherence to a policy of non-tunable-efi/ecu depends largely on your:
-state transport regulations
-engineer
-inspection officer (for rwc, blue-slip?, regency etc)
-side of bed the RTA/police-person/transport-barstard got out of that day?
(edited 'cause i read the title again)
[Updated on: Sat, 10 December 2005 12:46]
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