Yes. Let me move into your basement and register my cars to your address now please. I only require 2 wives in payment.

 

I have offered to get it finished and running for Fae before. He just had to get the car down to me.

From when I last talked to him there were mechanical and tuning **** that needed to be done. I don't remember if any real fab work was needed or not.

 

My address still requires OBD2. You need a cousin somewhere I don't have any wives. I'll take your turbos though.

 

I hear VW has some good software for this.



But seriously, you either:

1) find a shady shop
2) do a swap to stock every two years
3) register it in one of the few smog friendly counties
4) try and keep it registered out of state

 

yup, he's back

responding to his PM myeaw

 

1. Buy a cheap beater Miata of same year model and color.
2. Put your VIN tag on it.
3. Get tested and pass
4. Move VIN tag back to your car.
5. Drive it

It's kinda like wearing a suit and tie to work to get paid, then going out to the club later in a dress, stockings, and lipstick to have a good time.

 

ughhhhhhhhhhh

VIN locations:
Front drivers side on dash under windshield (plate)
Door jamb next to strike plate on both sides (sticker)
Door next to latch on both sides (sticker)
Fire wall (1/4" tall stamped letters on welded plate)
Hood (sticker)
Front fender in water run-off gully on both sides (sticker)
Inside front bumper, passenger side, just under turn signal (sticker)
Trunk (sticker)
Inside rear drivers side fender just in front of bumper under gas fill hose (sticker)
Passenger side of aluminum oil pan (riveted metal plate)
PPF, top side roughly in center (stamped letters)

 

Because RACECAR!! It's time.

 

They check every single number? I thought they only check the dashboard vin and thats it.

 

Vin locations the actually check

Dashboard.

Faes car would be a horrible racekor. It would never make it to the track, so never actually be driven.

 

swapping vin is cool until you get caught for a federal offense

 

Swapping vin is legal as long as you contact the police department and have an officer supervise it & go over the proof of ownership.

 

-"hey officer, hold my beer while I cheat emissions inspection"

 

oh I didn't read too far back concerning the legality or lack thereof behind swapping his vin.

I just had to do that since I put a dashboard from a different car in my donor.

 

FTFY

I vote swap vin. You will love Federal Pound-You-In-The-*** Prison

 

How many of you guys in California ever had a VIN checked anywhere other than the dash at the inspection station?

I suggested swapping it back immediately anyway. I would just say the car had been badly wrecked and was full of junkyard parts if anyone asked. And remove the extra VIN stickers from the junker anyway.

Y'all act like you never registered a stolen car before, lol. J/k

 

 

It's been 4 or 5 years since I last had a car inspected in CA, but my recollection is that they scan the barcode on the driver's side B pillar with a reader attached to the computer & modem which communicates with the DMV.

Not sure what they do if Earl Scheib carelessly painted over it.

 

Seriously, a kid showed up at my house in a Miata he bought to trade a rollbar for some other parts I had and his dash pad didn't match the 3 other VINs on his car. His registration only matched the dash pad .

 

It might be easier to just dash swap rather than swapping vin tags. You cant drill out the rivets with the dash in if the car has a windshield. Also, exact matching rivets have to be special ordered. You need the 3/16" flange size on a 1/4" rivet and the flange needs to be painted black. When I did the dash swap I just drilled everything out to use 3/16" but it doesnt quite look right.