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Originally Posted by Lexluther
now I just want the car on the road.
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Kent I know it's easy for all us guys miles away to offer you advice, but I think I can speak for most of us when I say that we've all admired, been in awe even, of the beautiful work that you've put into this car up to this point. Dare I say that you're now at that dicey stage of the build where it's so close to being finalised you can smell it. As you say, you just want the car on the road. However I've seen guys get to this point and the months of serious and mindful work sometime give way to little shortcuts just so they can be on the road a week or two earlier.
You're so close to having this incredible car precisely the way you always envisaged it that to compromise your dream now would be a tragedy. The issue of side pipes, given that there are other cars with working sidepipes on the road in SA, should be one that could be solved with the support of your engineer and finding a human being at Regency. Such a person is rare, I know, but they
do exist. They're like diamonds.
The second challenge relating to noise has been faced and defeated in different ways by Reno and Damage -- it can be done! And not in a way that just sneaks the car through rego and then things 'happen' to it afterwards. No, it can be done properly and legally so your car will stand scrutiny at a later date if ever called upon to do so.
Please reconsider your present course of action. Your innovation and the skill of your workmanship have made this one of the most keenly followed builds I've ever seen on this forum, and again speaking for the majority of your many admirers, let me say that we would be so very disheartened and disappointed if your desire to have this car exactly the way you originally dreamed it was to sadly be derailed at the eleventh hour by some petty bureaucrat's unfeeling and uncaring decision.
Some things are worth going the extra mile for. You might win. You might not. Or to misquote Tennyson 'It's better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all.' Mate, for all our sakes, give it a shot!