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PostPosted: August 3, 2016, 12:53 pm 
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Nice job Chris. The PA process is definitely fun - way to hang in there.

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Lovely work, Chris, and thanks for the kind words.

How did you mount that wiper motor?*

*as shown in photo in next-to-last post on previous page (page 7)

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Congrats, Chris! Street legal and great lookin' car! Well done, Sir!
And with the rear transaxle, her best feature is her a$$... What's not to like!?!?!?!? :twisted:
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Lovely work, Chris, and thanks for the kind words.

How did you mount that wiper motor?*

*as shown in photo in next-to-last post on previous page (page 7)


Jack, wiper motor is a clamp on assembly from speedway. I then put a connector on the scuttle for quick installs and removal.

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Congrats, Chris! Street legal and great lookin' car! Well done, Sir!
And with the rear transaxle, her best feature is her a$$... What's not to like!?!?!?!? :twisted:
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Nice job Chris. The PA process is definitely fun - way to hang in there.

My process did not go very smooth. The enhance inspection went well but then Harrisburg decided to audit the car at the enhance inspection station. They ding me on a few item that where easy to correct. They wanted covers over the carbs, more heat shielding on the exhaust, brighter plate light and the rear sway bar installed. The fixes took hours to do but getting the list and schedule the appointments took about two months. Overall the two guys from pendot that came out where good guys that where easy to work with.

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... and the rear sway bar installed...

That's strange on several points: for requiring it at all (as if it's necessary for safety), and being unaware that adding one increases oversteer, something typically considered unsafe.

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That's strange on several points: for requiring it at all (as if it's necessary for safety), and being unaware that adding one increases oversteer, something typically considered unsafe.


I scratched my head on that one also. When I built the car it I originally had a rear Miata bar but was a little to loose so I removed it. I found it easier not to ask questions and just reinstall the rear bar.

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... and the rear sway bar installed...

That's strange on several points: for requiring it at all (as if it's necessary for safety), and being unaware that adding one increases oversteer, something typically considered unsafe.


PA lets the inmates run the prison when it comes to "enhanced" inspections. Its more about garages paying the state to become an enhanced station and making it more difficult to re-title stolen cars than it is sound engineering or safety. You're better off making them happy than arguing. The guy that did mine nitpicked a bunch of little stuff that wasn't in the vehicle code. If a rear anti roll bar was their biggest complaint, consider yourself lucky.

Just be happy your inspection place didn't thank you for bothering them with your business by draining your battery then jumping it so it would run long enough to get on the trailer but not restart later.

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I actually found time to work on the 7 this weekend as the latest house projects are wrapping up. Mounted some wings on the windshield, started reworking the steering to add in a 2:1 quickener and revisited a 4-1 equal length exhaust.

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Next weekend is already booked up but hopefully the following weekend I can finish the steering, wire up the electric seat heater and continue with the exhaust.


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New 4-1 header and exhaust for the 7. One winter project finally off the list.
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Did you do your own ceramic powdercoat on the header?

What bellhousing patterns are the same for older vws, air and water cooled, rwd and fwd?

A vw based fwd trike using an irs with flipped r&p would be sweet. Use a trailing arm for the third leg.

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Did you do your own ceramic powdercoat on the header?

What bellhousing patterns are the same for older vws, air and water cooled, rwd and fwd?


Swain Coating in NY did there ceramic coating which is white, then I top coated with a black exhaust paint they recommended as I cannot have white thing :BH:

I'm not sure on the bell housing bolt patterns, I used a bus bell housing and then made an adapter place to mount to the torque tube.

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