New to Illinois, Question regarding sr20 swap legality

hey

i have just moved to chicago area from LA
and currently shopping for 240.
i like to know whats the deal here about having jdm motor in your car?
any problems with smog or any other issues i should know about?
i don't even really know how smog is done here in general neither so any information will be appreciated.

No emissions if your car is a 1995 or older

SR passes smog anyway.
Mine did.
Than they stopped testing. haha

OBDII is what gets you.

1995 OBD1 and under you can pretty much swap whatever you want into it, SR, CA, RB, LSx, w/e floats our boat. NO more emissions which means it wont have to pass regardless. There are other issues such as loud noise from exhaust, not having a catalytic converter, etc. But those are up to the cop that stops you and where you get stopped.

Chicago the city is pretty aight with stuff. Ive driven without a hood or bumper a few times and never got pulled over. Ive seen people with side exit exhaust on 10 sec Evos with parachutes drive around my neighborhood and not get pulled over. But then again once my buddy drove into the burbs a few seconds later got pulled over for tinted windows. Like I said all depends on the cop and place.

IN A NUTSHELL CHICAGO IS SWAP FRIENDLY - but shit might get stolen, especially if its a honda.

cool
so if the car is obd2, what does ppl do?
as long as obd2 and emission is clear, swap itself is not illegal?

im living in cary right now so hopefully cops r not so ass.
im not that big fan of ricing it up to get attention cuz im THE RICE, being a fob japanese.

but man, i got my id taken away just for speeding the other day... as a bond? is that normal here?

? never heard of that

OBDII needs to plug in and pass their scan test. So whatever you swap in, has to be run off an obdII computer and be running properly.

Beyond that... they don't care what motor it is.

well it was in fox river grove, mchenry county.
cop said i will get it back once i pay the fine n stuff.
and said ticket paper is as my license for now.

is that what cops do to poor fobs like me?

its called a DWA, (driving while asian) they do that here in Indy too, i haven't had a license since 2003.

no that's normal, that's how they make sure you appear in court or pay the ticket

you'll get it back after you pay the fine/whatever you work out with he court

on the flip side, you could have kept your license... and gone to jail

few bits of advice, get AAA [it's a auto club] and the next time that happens you can hand them your AAA card rather then your license [done that a few times as well]

stay out of Fox River Grove if you can, but if you can't drive REALLY slow, it's a small town, and all their revenue comes from traffic tickets... so they are bitches about pulling anyone and everyone over. same goes for a town called Buffalo Grove and Wonder Lake, two other not so friendly towns when it comes to cops

Lake in the Hills is alright on the main roads, but stay outta the backroads

as for emissions, if your car is older then 94, your good, swap in whatever

damn, i did have aaa card. thanks for the advice tho.
i can't really avoid the road, i live around there.
renting a house there just for big garage with cheap rent.

ill just stay good, getting too old to be a punk anyways

LSx is OBD2

Watch out for those tint laws, apparently they just jacked up the ticket price to $250 because cops are "afraid of drivers attacking" since they cant see the driver behind the tinted window

RacerX wrote:

Watch out for those tint laws, apparently they just jacked up the ticket price to $250 because cops are "afraid of drivers attacking" since they cant see the driver behind the tinted window

LOL tints or not, if someone wants to unload some lead into a piggy it wont make a difference. Just like all the other shit including speed bumps, they hardly stop the people that do it, they merely make life harder for everyone else.

i love chicago, i just moved here from cali and shit once i heard no smog i was like "its on now!"

but i have noticed cops here are lazy, too many potholes and speed bumps not to mention this damn winter? yikes! ...lol

ChicagoS14T wrote:

RacerX wrote:

Watch out for those tint laws, apparently they just jacked up the ticket price to $250 because cops are "afraid of drivers attacking" since they cant see the driver behind the tinted window

LOL tints or not, if someone wants to unload some lead into a piggy it wont make a difference. Just like all the other shit including speed bumps, they hardly stop the people that do it, they merely make life harder for everyone else.

lol. thats funny and true.

mishkin_707 wrote:

i love chicago, i just moved here from cali and shit once i heard no smog i was like "its on now!"

but i have noticed cops here are lazy, too many potholes and speed bumps not to mention this damn winter? yikes! ...lol

cali to chicago.

CAME DOWN.

summer time i would choose chicago over cali any day. winter time ..... not so much.

My GF has been talking about moving out to la jolla CA if we we get married. i dont know it might be a nice change of pace but im still kinda meh.. on it.

SPEEDTRIBE wrote:

summer time i would choose chicago over cali any day. winter time ..... not so much.

My GF has been talking about moving out to la jolla CA if we we get married. i dont know it might be a nice change of pace but im still kinda meh.. on it.

i visited chicago a few times before moving here, humidity sucks ass here in chicago, cali is a nice dry heat, not here but hell i can do my intended swap for my car and not worry about anything so i can deal with it, trust me man just go visit cali, you'll see what i mean

oh i know but humidity doesnt bother me, i usually spend atleast a month in CA every year. I just prefer the city of Chicago to about any city in CA.
but i really enjoy parts of CA, i love the fact that its always car season, and i love the beach.

I always thought cali was so lax till I visited a few times. The laws are crazy strict over there. I was suprised as heck. I guess you can get away with alot in Chicago. Good luck, winters suck but the summers are great! Good ratio of women to men in the city. Should be able to find a little of everything if you look hard enough.

yeah, im used to getting pulled over for anything in cali, chicago seems really laid back and that what i like about it, cali is my preference, but there isn't nothing like good ol chicago thats why i love it here, the polish girls here are freaking hot but i dont see many phillipinas, maybe im not looking hard enough