Change VIN to pass inspection

I plan on swapping a chevy engine into another car eventually, still contemplating what car to swap into. Here in NY state I have to plug in to OBD 2 for inspection, the machine will read the VIN while the engine is running, checking emissions and monitors. Is it possible to change the VIN on the ECM (being a chevy engine) to a different car manufacturer VIN (a chrysler for example)? Thank you

You may run into other problems with the vehicle's legality - I'd suggest double checking with the local vehicle licencing authority, whatever it is, before going too far.

As it is, if you can supply details of the ECU there may be some gurus who can give a detailed answer for that, but I suspect no.

Tampering with a VIN is a crime on both a state and federal level in the US. Probably not the best place to be asking.

If you're asking about a legitimate engine swap, speak to your state Ref - probably similar to California in that you need to have them certify it.

Yeh that's not really what I'm asking, if the ecu fails on a stock car, they swap it out for a new one changing the VIN to match the cars VIN. That's all i want to know, not scratching VIN numbers physically off the car and forging a different one.

Ah, seems there's no issues with engine swaps, as such - but definitely take that under advisement as I can't find anything official one way or the other.

You NEED to talk to the State's inspection office to see what, if anything, are your options - they may have an established process for vehicles like yours, they may have a work-around, they may not have any means of you completing your project, legally.

The ECU and, more directly, the VIN number is a different story - that's why you need to get an official sign-off for your vehicle, with a replacement/re-written/whatever CPU VIN that gets you through. In some cases, I believe, the ECU VIN is hard-locked to the equipment of the vehicle.

I don't know what the story is if you try registering it in a 'friendlier' state to use in your state.

I can see their rational, and don't really disagree in principle, but not having a process for people like you seems to be rather short-sighted and generally incompetent - but then when you have state bodies that use "gas", "gas caps", etc in their official documentation you KNOW they're ignorant and/or incompetent, when they should use terms like "gasoline", and "fuel tank filler caps". I'd love some pedantic lawyer to argue that the vehicle is not running on a "gas", such as methane, propane, hydrogen, etc which are actual "gases".