With some mods to it's ECU they think it will have around 600HP ...

It's bloody frustrating when the "authority" is completely unqualified to be any kind of relative authority. I had dramas when I put an XU1 engine in a 4-door LC Torana, one guy put it off the road for having an illegal engine modification, "the 4-door never came out with that engine" he said, and according to the writ I was facing an engineer's certificate. I tried to be tricky and fixed a few cosmetic things like a better battery mount to clear the triple carbs since what I originally did was just bang the old mount with a hammer to turn the battery the other way to clear them; then took it to another guy to view and he cleared it. I told him about the first guy and he said he shouldn't have done that, structurally it clearly makes no difference whether you put the motor from the 2-door into a 4-door version of the same car, so long as all the other bits are up to scratch, and were. He then went on to tell me he used to have an XU1 and loved driving it, so I was just lucky there. Get the wrong guy and the world can be against you, the right guy and you're all good. A bit odd that.Mercmad wrote:i am half way through doing the same with a W111 coupe here but the big stumbling block is the soviet era thinking in the Qld transport department who think i am rebirthing a car... and thus will not allow me to register it. No wonder our manufacturing base has faded away.
That's universal, same here. I remember 2 or 4 years ago I went with the E63 to TÜV (authority check) and the guy was that competent (when the car was lifted up), that he asked his colleague, if the exhaust system was allowed, it was standardvanir wrote:.... Get the wrong guy and the world can be against you, the right guy and you're all good. A bit odd that.