botbasher wrote:
Dismantalus wrote:
...all 50 state legal mods.
Except maybe NJ!
Welcome to the Gang! Looking forward to seeing what you're playing with!
From the couple of NJ residents that have posted their struggles to register their cars here, it may not be so cut and dry! Dig around in the search box and see what you're up against before you get too deep. It appears that NJ has some even more draconian rules than even Commifornia!
Good luck with it on all sides!
KS
The three worst states from what I have heard are 1) California, 2) New York, and 3) New Jersey. I heard one about a guy with a Cobra did not have the proper documentation for the engine in New York, and they impounded the whole car. Had to get a lawyer to get it back.
I actually am fairly intimate with the requirements at this point, as I went through all of it with the Asbury Park guys that are most familiar with this stuff on a '33 Vicky street rod build. It's fairly straight forward from a technical standpoint. Emissions match and function from donor engine. OBD1 and earlier, visual inspection of components, tailpipe sniff. OBDII, must function as any other OBDII system. With the OBDII, it is not so bad with the multiport efi engines, but these new direct injection engines, and the way the various versions of the can-bus tie everything together, it can be difficult if not impossible to cut out the "excess" and still have the system not complain about it. Any welding must be done by a certified welder. I'm a CWI, and a Certified Welder, so I have that part covered. Oh, and just in case it comes up with other folks on their builds: The certification that the welder holds has to be to AWS D1.9, not D1.1 Anything under 1/8" thickness is considered sheet metal by the code.