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It goes by model year not by Manufacture date. If it was sold as a 96 it has to meet OBDII standards.
As far as legalities. The build plate will list the Model of the auto tranny. I doubt that the average cop would know the models of trannys in our cars. There is several vin plates on the engine and they tranny. I know with Honda's cops love to check the plates against the dash and firewall build plate and then bust them for stolen engine till they can prove ownership of the new engine. Then bust you for an illegal swap when you didn't modify your title/reg to list an new engine and it's VIN. To register the swap it has to be a same year or newer. 96 is older than 97-98.
Then when you goto smog(official not test only) the car they will hook up the obdII and they'll see that it's a 96 ecu and a manual tranny.
I'm sure you can over come this all if you find a same year or newer manual tranny ecu for the kouki.
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