I have this Formula Ford chassis (With Spit front uprights!) sitting in my
garage I keep thinking about turning into a high mpg street car...Maybe a
nice 2L Audi engine/trans (since it's already longitudinal)...Since the 2L
Rover engine doesn't mate up with any useful transmission...Sigh. So many
projects...
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Rocky Entriken <rocky@spitfire4.com> wrote:
> One time driving down the Interstate (in Kansas) I went by a winged sprint
> car that had been made street legal. He'd added headlights/taillights was
> the only obvious modification, oh and a license plate holder. Don't recall
> if he had fenders, but if he did they were just moytorcycle fenders hung on
> the suspension. Horn? Don't know. Windshield -- no, but he wore a full-face
> helmet. Presumably the engine was seriously detuned. Still a 1-seater.
>
> --Rocky Entrik
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Belfer" <
> colordog.1@earthlink.net>
> To: "FOT" <fot@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:33 AM
> Subject: [Fot] Street Legal
>
>
>
> Are any of your race cars street legal?
>>
>> I have considered modifying my car to make it street legal for an
>> OCCASIONAL drive. I probably won't do it because the thought of some driver
>> in a Escalade with video screens on the cell phone might be my demise. I'm
>> more afraid of that than turn 9 at Willow Springs.
>>
>> If you have gone "streetable" with a former race car, what are your
>> experiences or recommendations?
>>
>> If I did it, I'd have to do the following: Raise the ride height, bad
>> idea for a race car
>>
>> Put in an alternator, lights and a horn: No big deal
>>
>> Use milder cyl head or thicker HG for less compression / pump gas
>>
>> Muffler: Supertrapp?
>>
>> Title! My car has no title but I have the ID plates from a scrapped TR3.
>>
>> This is probably a bad idea. I know my dad wouldn't like it but it's
>> killing me to only enjoy being in the car a few times per year.
>>
>> What would they look at at the DMV?
>>
>>
>>
>> ~Steve
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