cat converter legally required?

[geckoGT]

Originally Posted by MRJUCY

I asked the EPA in NSW about this a couple of years ago & they said if you had a pre '86 car & converted it to run on PULP you don't have to run a cat but they of course suggest you do. If how ever you did this by fitting a post 86 engine you would as you have to meet the emissions standards of the later of either the chassis build date or the engine build date. This means also that if someone used say a Clevo block from a XE & fitted to there XA they'd have to pass all the post '76 garbage even tho the blocks were the same.

As I said, post '86 engine in a pre '86 chassis, you have to apply the later emission laws which means cats. No cats if you modify a pre '86 engine.