PA Specially Constructed Vehicle Inspection and Registration

[1ntCobra]

Originally Posted by pusherfans

From my understanding, the process is the same in the whole state.

It comes down to this:

1) The car will need side pipe heat shields (if you have side pipes)

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I have seen plenty of Cobra replicas in PA without heat shields over the side pipes.

[mr bruce]

and everyone is a rolling lawsuit, it cleary states in the inspection booklet exposed exhaust require heat shields.

[pusherfans]

Originally Posted by 1ntCobra

I have seen plenty of Cobra replicas in PA without heat shields over the side pipes.

Yes me too. Maybe some people take them off, or maybe it's a new requirement.

The rules all changed recently under the new program (a couple years old now) and seeing from this thread, maybe they are not consistent.

My intention here was to share with you one successful registration process in hopes to answer some questions; like I had before I went through it. I feel better trying to follow the rules the best that I can, just to be safe. I would rather over-prepare than to risk rejection by PennDOT and have to go through it again. It sounds like some requirements can be skipped and still pass, but I just felt that after so much time is invested in the build process, why take the chance for further delay? Others may not agree.

I don't have all the answers, just my experience.

[mr bruce]

Guess what, you sent PennDot 4 pictures of your car to get the title/registration/inspection. JohnLaw pulls you over, he has a computer in his squad car, runs your plate thu S.C.A.M.O.N.S. and looks at your pictures. You don't have the equipment on your car like when you got your tile/registration/inspection.Trooper Law confiscates your shiny Cobra and sends it off to the impound yard . Mucho fines.