My daughter and her boy friend drove a Subaru Outback I got for her at a car auction in Chesapeake (VA), and the only issue they had was they had to replace the thermostat when they were in OH, because it was running hot (sounds familiar!). The car had 150K+ miles, one owner, VERY well taken care of, and I had the coolant changed at a Subie dealer before they left on their trip.

When I was at a smog place here in CA, getting an emissions certificate for the Outback, the technician and I got to talking about trying to get carbed out of state vehicles to pass emissions. He told me that he won't automatically fail a car just because it has a different carburetor on it. But he will fail it if it doesn't have the major emissions hoses hooked up, which I know on my Weber on the SWB I don't. There's at least two hoses I can think of that need to be hooked up to something, in order to pass this visual inspection. There's that large diameter hose that went from the air cleaner to some gizmo on the exhaust side, and the valve cover breather hose (I have a small pleated filter element sitting on top of the valve cover vent now).

There was a thread on here about someone who made a template to match up a Weber carb top with the stock air cleaner base, so those hoses could be hooked back up. Another option I was thinking of was getting one of those snorkel kits, that has the adapter plate as part of the kit, running the air hose like stock to the front fender, and maybe tapping a couple of fittings into the snorkel on top of the carb to attach those hoses.

But with my luck, I'll go thru all that effort and my SWB won't pass. I'm thinking of leaving the SWB in VA for me to drive when I get back there, and if I do end up heading back to Cali for good, just selling it and looking for something that's already passed smog in CA.

But at least my SWB runs...only problem is the horn has a habit of going off when you turn the wheel almost to full lock in either direction, so that would be a good excuse to get a new steering wheel and adapter kit installed, and maybe even one of those WoLo Bad Boy one-piece air horns.