YOU DIRTY RAT!!

[M3M3]

you ex- cg MC? cool! I happen to know some key folks in the personnel office if your daughter need a recuirting contact.....and the Academy is right there in CT...;-)

Marshall - Active duty since '77.

[Bill_Riblett]

How hard is it going to be to make this legal?

I'll be curious to hear how smogging it goes.

[Bill_Riblett]

Excuse double post

[M3M3]

a good question....it has been registered and run in virginia before. quick look underneath revealed it looks like it has a couple of bullet mufflers welded in place of where the cats should be. also looks like the diagnostic plug was deleted in the m50 conversion so i can't pull the codes out of the ecu. ran it a bunch yesterday and all the bearing noises went away and the alternator was working fine. i will probably do a full engine maint (comp and leakdown check, replace plugs, pull injectors/check, oil change, etc and haul it down to local gas station for a "practice" test to see where it is at. handy also having a race car with an m50 in it...lots of spare parts!

[M3M3]

hmmmm....just checked VA DMV website and found this;

Motor vehicles exempted from emissions inspections include:

"•Gasoline powered passenger or property carrying vehicles with a model year that is more than 25 years old before January 1 of the current calendar year.

EXAMPLE: Vehicles with a model year of 1984 are exempt from emissions on or after January 1, 2009; vehicles with a model year of 1985 will be exempt from emissions on or after January 1, 2010. "

Ratattouille is a 1985. looks like it is over 25 years old and is exempt from emissions! wish I, and the clerk, had realized that when i titled it. then i would already have plates for it. doh!

[Bill_Riblett]

That is great!

My 86 635 will be 25 next year, so only one more emissions test. Thank goodness, they have been a real pain over the years.