04-10-2003, 05:33 AM
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Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Bedford,
VA
Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance 496 FE side oiler TKO II
Posts: 79
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Okay, here is what I know about NJ Kit Car titling & registration....
The vehicle will be titled as the year it was completed. The vehicle will have to have the "pollution equipment" required for the year and model of the engine block installed. The literature states that sidepipes require a heat shield. And of course, you need a front license plate. Here are the steps:
1) complete your car
2) send in all the paperwork, including MCO, receipts for kit, engine, and major components. They would like the VIN of the vehicle that the engine came from. Ohterwise a letter from the selling person explaining that this is a 35 year old block and can't be traced to a specific vehicle will do.
3) DMV will make an appointment to come to your house or you can make an appointment to trailer the vehicle to 1 of 3 special inspection stations for an "engineering inspection". During this inspection they will be all over your car, including under it. They will be checking casting numbers on the block and looking for the pollution equipment required for that year block. They are not interested in seeing the car run at this point.
4) Once you are issued a title, you may register your vehicle....but not as collector car! No kit cars can be registered as collector car according to the Richard Dittmar of DMV. This means the normal bi-annual inspections with a pollution requirement (sniffer test) based on the year of the block.
You can talk to these folks and ask what pollution equipment is required on the year block you are planning on using.
Titling using "other methods" will hide the fact that you are titling a kit car. Fraud, if you ask me, and you are opening yourself up to lawsuit city if an improperly inspected (no engineering inspection) kit car is involved in a serious accident.
I was unaware of the NJ DMV engine requirements when I built my car. As such, I had to pull my FMS crate 392 stroker and I just purchased a '66 428 FE motor. I hope no one else has to do this. The bottom line......the DMV folks are very helpful and they are not out to ruin your fun.
Robert
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