You know, I always though my car was legal.
It was a rotary, and the exhaust system was reeeaaaly hot. In the rain, water would pour in through the windows, and pool on the floor, and as it washed around it would sizzle and boil, adding copious amounts of steam to the windshield.

The stock shields were shot, and obstructed the system anyway, so I replaced them with custom ones. But...they weren't the EXACT stock ones. Crap...guess I never read that rule that carefully. I thought it was a typical remove/ modify/ replace deal.

But, so what if people want thick shields? It's not like you can't make a 100 pound exhaust system now....or a 100 pound rear sway bar, (cough, Kirk, cough, LOL) or a 50 pound "metal bulkhead" (Cough, Mr. 'I wrote the book'), or a 50 pound fuel cell structure (cough everybody, cough).........weights reeeally easy to add...........and there's always that "prohibited function" clause....