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Re: Appearance kits: sp legal?

To: "Loren Williams" <Loren@kscable.com>, "autox list" <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Appearance kits: sp legal?
From: "Justin Hughes" <ka1ult@channel1.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:32:38 -0400
> Swapping the facia itself would be an "update/backdate" issue and legal
> for SP (or not... since Saturns are STILL not specifically listed in
> CSP, nothing is on the "same line").  I don't remember if brake ducting
> is legal or not.

Now that my memory is refreshed on update/backdate (which would permit me to
put '77 BMW 320i vented rotors on my '83 320i for SP), I believe a bit more
firmly that this swap would fall into the same category.  Considering how
short and relatively slow (compared to a track) most courses are, I don't
see that brake ducts would give any significant autox advantage.  That's an
entirely different story on the track.

> Are you kidding?  Most people couldn't tell you the difference between
> and SC2 and an SL1.  You are 100% correct there, unless they have
> studied Saturn lineage, they wouldn't know the difference.

Before I became interested in them, all I knew of Saturns was 2-door,
4-door, and wagon, and each was available with one of two engines.  That's
it.  And even that's more than many people know.

> (Honda guys are just as bad... still don't know how someone can tell
exactly what
> year a Honda is at a glance.

Me either - it's impossible for me to tell an EX, DX, HX, WXYZX apart other
than the badge on the back (the Si is more of a giveaway).  Yet the Honda
enthusiasts (not "rice boys") among us can probably tell us all the
differences, just like we can run down the list of Saturn's year to year
tweaks.

> But Saturns are easy... 2-tone paint with
> geartooth wheels is a 92-93, solid color with original teardrops is a
> 94, fog lights started in 95...)

...96 looks just like a 95, and 97 on are the newer body style.  The 3-door
came out in '99 models.

    - Justin
      95 SC2 "Locutus"
      83 320i "Igor" (in the hospital)





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