[artdutra04]

To play devil's advocate here:

Let's say this team found a nearly identical window motor on eBay/Craigslist or at a local car parts store, and thought to themselves: wow, this has a really nice gearbox on it. We could attach a CIM motor to this gearbox and we'd be in business!

The gearbox formerly attached to a non-legal motor was removed from said non-legal motor and attached to KoP CIM motor. If the non-legal window motor assembly was commercially available, the non-legal motor assembly would be a COTS item (although the motor inside the assembly would be illegal). The gearbox removed from it would a fabricated item derived from a COTS part.

Now last I checked, this would be legal (this is more or less exactly what the DeWalt XRP transmission mod is), but again this is not official in any way shape or form.