What's the likely outcome of me only fitting the drivers seat to the car and telling the SVA man the car is for track days only ? Just thought I could get away with not having to mess around with edges etc on the passenger side.

I think the answer might be " If its for track days only you dont need an SVA Sir."

Nice try though

did you walk into that or did you walk into that GMTBH...

nice one

still got to get it to the track though, and trailers are no fun

hence I do need an SVA Mr inspector

Well i suppose if he trusts you wont put another seat in straight away....

yeah right....

Joking apart you might be able to go through as a single seater but I dont know how that will affect you for its registration, and I bet they will still want the dash etc sorting to the regs, because they know you will put the other seat in.

yeah of course I won't , might even attach a fire extinguisher where the passenger seat should be just to prove it !!!




and single seater... easy to amend the V5 at a later date

[Edited on 12/3/04 by givemethebighammer]

Make sure the fire extinguisher has all radiused edges

Or you could fit a second steering whhel on the passenger side then youd have no problems at all, and it gives your passenger a feeling of security, not that it would do anything

Because if I crash I'm going to leap out of the drivers seat impale myself on the fire extinguisher on the passenger side then hurt myself on the non radiused lower dash edge on the same side, or is it in case I "catch" a pedestrian by mistake ?




[Edited on 12/3/04 by givemethebighammer]

[Edited on 12/3/04 by givemethebighammer]

You could always panel in the passenger side with ally sheet making it temporarily a genuine one seater.

joking aside that's not such a bad idea, how about constructing it as a large storage box (read boot) ?. The top could be removable for access.

Like coffin

Sorry bad taste

yeah exactly like a coffin, a nice auminium one. got to beat a dull wooden one, not so sure how the crematorium will cope though !!!!!

Job done. A bloke at the garage my mate works at took his fireblade engined car to Derby with only one seat years ago and they just checked what was there. He said they never even mentioned it and he had no seat belt mounts on that side either.

Looks like Derby is the place to go BigHammer.

so do you think they will still test for the dash projections on the passenger side if there is no seat ?. I rekon that you could avoid almost all of the interior projection and edge testing by doing this !!!

Are you going to fit all your dials and switches to the passenger side? Sounds a bit impractical. They tested what was there so I assume they still tested the dash area anyway. Sorry to wee on your chips gmtbh.

All purely thoughts on how to beat the system at the moment. Don't want to avoid safety checks just mindless regulations.

I only fitted a drivers seat for my SVA. However, discussing this with the SVA examiner he said he treats the car as a 2 seater if there are seat belt mounting points in the passenger side.

He said I could either remove the belt mounts entirely or weld up the existing mounts so they were unusable.

Regards
Chris

b*gger, time to do things properly then !

lol. im going to have to make mine with a removable panel behind the seats to get to the various bolts, and to allow the inspector a view of the gubbins.

JoelP, can't you see the seat belt mounts from the underside ? I am sure they will be able to check when they stick your car on the ramps. He'll need a torch of course.
Has anyone had to take any photographic evidence of stuff they've done during their builds?
I meant specifically the steering column, seat belt lower and upper mounts etc ?

it would be ok if mine was book, but unfortunately the harness fillets are inside the cockpit and hidden under the seat, and the seats themselves bolt to a rail inside the chassis, so bugger all is visable from the outside!