Ok peeps...here is the deal.
ICE has moved on his boat and now has funds for a new project.
The preference was for a AC Cobra replica build. This will not be case, as the RMS (Road and Maritime Services previously known as the RTA) has now canned the previous Engineering Certification Scheme as of 19 December 2011, in favor of the Vehicle Safety Compliance Certification Scheme.
Having a hunt through the requirements involved in this publication this type of project is now far in excess of economic practicality to achieve these unrealistic standards of compliance.
To further make this worse Individually Constructed Vehicles (ICV) and now imported vehicles that have previously been engineered in other states and have current interstate registration, or who have previously had NSW rego that has lapsed in excess of three months now have to be re-certified against this ridiculously expensive and hard to achieve standard (unless you are a local car manufacturer that is ) despite RMS assurance that the ACS for vehicles has not changed the individual certifiers interpretation of standards have
This will be further amended to include heavily modified vehicles such as an XR4 running non standard uptakes and exhaust systems, suspension and brake modifications, turbos, supercharging and/or Nitrous Oxide systems fitted regardless or not if active or passive. The RMS is yet to promulgate this vehicle list and classification.
The RMS can hide behind all the safer regulatory requirement BS they like but at the end of the day, it is another way to screw cash out of automotive enthusiasts...at this rate we will all be driving Camry's like LUKEY!
More info at....
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au...vsccs_vehicle_owners.html and
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au.../downloads/bulletin_1.pdf.
This shytes me to tears for numerous reasons including the associated cost of certification and compliance now, the fact that some engineer with less qualification and competency than myself can charge me to mis-interpret the certification standard and that if a vehicle has already achieved certification previous to this scheme in accordance with the national standard (that has been paid for already) either in this thieving state or another, we have to folk out yet more cash to achieve compliance.
I can not even buy one from interstate and modify with out the same BS.
Are we not one nation with one nation code of practice and Automotive manufacturing standards and codes?
On the positive side those with current rego of these types of cars are set as long as they do not change a thing or let rego lapse.
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