whats the crack with making ur own car at the mo...???.....eg cossying a mk1, 2,3, or a focus or anything else......have the laws clamped down.......tell me is it an easy fix........

 

Dunno pete but i'd like a 4wd focus cosworth.

 

.....thats my next move..........

 

whats up with the saff pete , heard its parked up till chrimbo ,

hope they aint tighntend anything just yet , not till mines finished lol

beef

 

positive i read on here about new m.o.t laws or vosa making it hard to alter from std

 

one last time..................maybe it was just the voices in my head..???

 

im unaware of anything to stop you.

 

.....must have just been in my dreams.............

 

....but then theres also lots of other things im also unaware of .

 

This was posted up on ZSOC today:

http://www.yell.com/motoring/blog/wa...e-transplants/

 

i read that the other week. wasnt there an issue with it not being law but merely a future idea?

 

......knew i wasn't going mad (er)

 

make you own!!-are you not aware of manufacturing your own car as was the escort g3!
it wasnt ford who made it!! bare unreg shell and your away,dont forget the engineers report when done .
fia rules as was for rally cars -must be as manufacturers spec etc.
a lot of companys make them---------make your own.

 

but i'm onabout taking a 1.6 focus shell and turning it into a 430bhp 4x4 cossie powered beast................

 

and use your car as donor car pete????

 

..........yes fella....but whats kebabs got to do with it..???......

 

Just do it! Come to that hurdle when its finished!!!

 

LOL

Are you getting sick of your saff pete.You must have an everyday car now instead of using the saff all the time.

 

All they are doing is bringing a lot of heavily modified vehicles under the same rules as kit cars requiring them to go through an IVA test.

This is supposed to only effect "radically altered vehicles" and that is still a rather open definition.

Looking at the regulations the way round it is to build from a new shell with mostly new parts and go down the kit car route as a "kit conversion".

Where theres will theres a way.

 

As of yet there is nothing stated in the MOT testers manual if you want to 4x4 cosworth your focus with 200 or 1000 hp you can end of as long as everything testable on the car passes as with a normal MOT test the only hurdle that may affect you depending on year of focus you are using dependent on year will either be 0.5 or 0.3 co limits
Hope that helps.



Regards Doug .

 

Doug - The emissions test goes on wether the vehicle OR engine is older (for engine transplants).

For example, you put a 1992 Cosworth 4x4 engine into a 2007 Focus shell then the emissions test will be for the age of the engine and not the vehicle.

 

Grace if you read the manual it stipulates was the vehicle 1st used on or before ( not engine ) for emission testing ,


Regards Doug.

 

my last mot was based on the ford as the engines older than the car. the oldest is what the mot man told me. that was 2 years ago now htough.

 

Thing is most of these laws regarding cossie converted cars etc already exist its just that it has been hard to enforce as traditionally the MoT man doesnt care if its radically altered as long as it pass's the safety aspect of MoT, where as if DVLA gets its full way then presenting a radically altered vehicle for MoT might be harder.

Thing is technically if you do a cossie conversion then you should go through IVA anyway as its a rebuilt/RAV anyway. Its just that people have been getting away with it so far.

 

Not according to this: http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_730.htm

 

Like you have just posted Warren its on the tester to prove that the engine is older than vehicle hence why the rule is in place ( Test as presented ) Now if customer has relevent paperwork i.e. engineers report to prove age of engine then yes you can test on engine and not vehicle age.


Regards Doug .

 

I just show them the engine number on V5 and the "engine date table" from the burton power catalogue and thats usually enough proof for them to accept engine date.