Kits built after 1999 may need a cat next season ?

surely this will be like sva! our engines are from mk2 escorts so don't need a cat! plus how can you prove when a locost was built for the track the majority are not road legal and never will be.

that all kit cars manufactured post31/12/99 will have to be fitted with a cat.
The reason being in simplified terms to bring comp cars into line with rules for road going cars.
As far as we are aware such rules do not apply to bike engines for this period and possibly are still not in place, tho the newest bikes appear to be running cats to meet emission regs.

Hang on! Where does this thread originate? New ruling by the DVLA? Or is this a 750club ruling?

I'm seriously shagged if it's DVLA....
2006 car with a 1990 engine

not 750mc thats for sure! so how does it work if the car is not even registrd?

MSA

What's the whole rumour?

read this

Am getting confused I hope, does this mean that if I don't hurry up with sva, my new locost with a 1970 x/flow will have to have a cat ?????

Jason

I find this more than a little confusing, so can anybody sort it out for me. As I understand it you have to have a Lambda, and an ECU to control fueling and ignition to get any real "benefit", (as in being green), from a cat, or am I totaly wrong. My reasoning being of all the cars that SWIMBO and I have owned, the only ones fitted with a cat, have had the aformentioned. While my Locost was registered in 04, it has two pipe system but onle one Lambda, and runs Megasquirt, so Lambda is an ornament, unless it goes on the R/R. Regards Ray

[Edited on 6-8-07 by Chippy]

I think the way it will be enforced is that any car which uses an engine from a car which was in production from 1999 onwards must have a catalyst. In the note on it in Motorsports Now it explains that all road cars have been required to have them since the mid-nineties. That means that anything manufactured after 99 will definitely have been designed with a catalyst in place (w.r.t fuelling strategies etc) and so you can't really argue against them making you keep it on for a racing application.

I don't think they mean you'd have to fit a new cat to a car built in 2000 but using parts from the 50's (or whenever). That wouldn't make a lot of practical sense.

Lets hope sense prevails

Jason

Yes indeed, as this is, as usual, TOTAL BOLLOX

A cat does NOTHING at full throttle WHATSOEVER.

On a competition car it is as useful as a chocolate fireguard, less so in fact as at least that is tasty.

Lets just hope the scientists overrule the greeny poiticians that have no clue

As a matter of fact, can somebody with a CO meter pop it in the exhaust of a catted car, just clamp it in the tailpipe, then give it death on a trackday with logger attached................you'll see it for real then!!

[Edited on 10/8/07 by NS Dev]

[Edited on 10/8/07 by NS Dev]