Originally Posted by SafeChav
As Tabetha says even if you build your own car it goes in for a routine safety test and then you can use it on road....
I saw this "car is born" thing ... so I know what you are talking about
Here you can make your own car too, but then you’ll have to go through something like your SVA and it will be registered as "self made vehicle" but there you will have to have all the drawings with formulas and so on ...
Anyway safechave is right about safer place, but as I like doing things I hate this system
Our regulations are short. Only few points.
1. you can't put in engine which has more then 30% of power
2. you can't put in engine which has more then 30% of capacity
3. you can not put diesel engine instead of petrol one and vice versa
4. you can't make any changes in engine mounting points (so there is no legal way to put an engine into the back of escort)
and during MOT everything has to be standard like it came from factory. No bumper cut outs, no drilled brake discs, no free flow exhausts, breathers etc.
That's the sad place we live at.
I failed mot week ago... so now I'm changing thing's like bumper, breather, exhaust (and it's impossible to get standard muffler for the RS here
)... luck they didn't notice my spacers on the front brakes
But that's the sad story anyway .... I couldn't have legal MKI or MKII escort with ZVH in it here