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WOW with clearance like that you could really show up the guys with the lift kits. I bet you wouldn't even hit on smooth gravel roads... I hope Zap and Qman see this....I wouldn't want you scaring them on the trail.... :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

Seriously though...darn that low...if I ever make it out that way give me a ride...

 

Matt

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Although it doesn't amount to a hill of beans

or aluminum cans

 

I have been getting vehicles inspected in PA for 35 years,

I have never heard of this "rule".

But it doesn't surprise me, as we also have a complicated to some trigonometry formula for the length a mud flap must be.

 

 

BTW an al U min E Um can is just shy of 5 in (4.875)

or 12.4 cm

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The reason you never heard of this Skip is because it DOES NOT EXIST. The know-it-all a few posts above is misinformed about suspensions and urban folklore... inspection code 175.80 sub part 8 paragraph (iii) states that the bumpers (main part of them) must be 16-20 inches above the road. It states nothing aobut ride height whatsoever peroid.

 

As for mud flaps... 22.5 degrees measured from the road surface.. 175.78 section (i)

 

If people want to start quoting PA inspection laws...get a book first and then get an inspection license... like I did.

 

Why the heck are we talking about PA laws for a car that is on the otherside of the US.... Dude your car is low (and cool I might add) just don't bring it to PA...the cops won't get you but the potholes might eat you alive.... :grin:

 

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Thanks for clearing that up Matt.

I suspected so but did not have the facts as you obviously do.

 

Concerning the regulation for mud flaps you quote.

 

I believe the illustration I saw in the regulation update

showed the angle as measured from the rear tire

 

One leg of the angle being the road surface.

 

The other leg of the angle being a line drawn from the tire

contact point on the ground to the bottom of the flap.

 

The inspection station must have a fairly large protractor

or

use the trig

e.g.

Measure the distance on the road surface from the

tire to a point directly below the mudflap (D)

 

The distance from the road surface to the mudflap (H)

to be legal

is given by

 

H = D Tan(22.5 degrees) = D x 0.41

 

 

Is this correct?.

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