It came up in another thread that several of us are doing builds (or rebuilds) enabled by the VIN rule being rescinded. I know of three that I can think of off the top of my head:
** Jeremy Billiel - Rebuilding whacked Acura GSR from an RS chassis
** Jeff Underwood - ITB Honda from lesser model road donor
** Mike Uhlinger - Building a Honda Prelude VTEC out of an Si
If you are doing - or following - one of these builds, could you keep us updated here, so we can keep track of what the policy change is looking like in real life? I confess that I want to know partially because I badgered the ITAC for a couple of years before it happened so if it goes sideways, I want to know about it...
We've unearthed one unanticipated outcome of the rule change - that it's possible to turn a car that's technically too new to be listed in IT into one that matches a spec line. It doesn't buy any advantage that are not cheating, say by using a part off of a model year NOT included among spec-line-legal options, and we didn't think of it largely (I believe) because it's not actually a negative consequence, but it was a surprise when it came up and sometimes surprises suck.
Thanks!
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