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[Regrow]

Hi All.

 

I was speaking to someone the other day and he mentioned that the powers that be are making a new ruling that you will not be allowed in near future to register a UC with a V8 as they did not come fitted with one.

 

Has anyone else heard this or is this just a rumour?

 

Cheers Regrow

[Bigfella237]

That's nothing new, it's been that way forever... but that's what engineers are for!

[Regrow]

Are the ADR codes on compliance plates the same on LX and UC?

Surely if the same then UC should be able to be registered with a V8 even though non came from factory..

[Bigfella237]

ADRs have nothing to do with what you're talking about, they mainly relate to safety items. If a Holden, a Toyota, and a Mazda all have ADR27A, that doesn't automatically mean you can fit a V8 to all of them.

 

Don't confuse ADRs with the various codes of practice for vehicle modifications. Those codes of practice, such as the NCOP, are what set out what can be modified both with and without an engineering inspection.

 

For as long as I can remember, the non-engineer limit has been that you can fit any option which was available from the factory for that model vehicle. So you can take a six cylinder LX Torana and put a Holden 308 in it without consulting an engineer, but if you fit a small block 307 Chev you do need an engineer's approval, even though the capacity is less, because a Chev motor was not a factory option for that model.

 

There was no factory V8 option for the UC Torana, so any V8 fitted, even a Holden V8, and even though it's a direct bolt-in conversion, would need an engineer's certificate.

[StephenSLR]

I was speaking to someone the other day

 

There's your problem.

 

There's so much bullshit flying around the place from people speaking to nobodies.

 

Edit: Good to see you did the right thing and came here to ask the forum.

 

 

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Edited by StephenSLR, 31 December 2017 - 09:26 AM.

[Shiney005]

Crikey. Try the other side of the bed tomorrow morning Stephen!

[StephenSLR]

Crikey. Try the other side of the bed tomorrow morning Stephen!

 

lol, yeah, post edited.

 

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[Shiney005]

The forum is losing members left right and centre that's all. The one thing I can't stand about facebook is people telling other people that their cars are crap or that they shouldn't own Toranas because they don't know the paint codes off by heart. I know I have been guilty of being offensive in here in the past, but it is never intentional. The forum just seems to be a friendlier place to hang out.

 

[fx48_eh64]

farcebook sux

[StephenSLR]

The forum is losing members left right and centre that's all.

 

After facebook took off, every forum is suffering.

 

Car forums are doing better than many others because fb has very poor archives and there's a lot of 'know it all's there who heard things when they were younger that weren't true to begin with; it's basically a Chinese-Whispers-book.

 

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[hanra]

The forums are definatley the place to come for informative and correct information.

[Regrow]

If one does not talk to people and ask questions one does not learn.

It just came up in a discussion and thought I'd seek clarification here.

Not sure where facebook came into it..

[StephenSLR]

If one does not talk to people and ask questions one does not learn.

 

It's good that you came here to ask, you're likely to get the right answer

 

 

Not sure where facebook came into it..

 

Someone mentioned this forum is losing members; nobody is actually leaving they're just not visiting as much as they used to, this is happening to all forums and many forums have disappeared after facebook took off due to lack of participation.

 

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Edited by StephenSLR, 03 January 2018 - 07:43 AM.