Mr Whippy
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| posted on 18/12/13 at 01:49 PM |
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Floor swaps these days
I mind as a teen on of the most common ways folk updated the handling of their old car was to cut out the floor of a fast car and then mate it to top
section of the old, sierra 4x4 into mk1 escort etc
In those days the DVLA really didn’t give a poop but I’m wondering what the situation is now. What’s the view these days of swapping large sections of
monocoque bodyshells, would it then require a IVA test and a new number or just keep the reg of the part the had the most components i.e. the floor
section.
Any idea’s
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loggyboy
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| posted on 18/12/13 at 01:52 PM |
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Any changes to the moncoque would result in the need for IVA as it would be a 'radically altered vehicle'.
As you dont 'need' it to register such a car (unlike a kit car), I dount many (if any) ever get properly approved.
Mistral Motorsport
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mookaloid
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| posted on 18/12/13 at 03:40 PM |
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This is one of my favourites
Build thread here
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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mcerd1
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| posted on 18/12/13 at 04:26 PM |
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seen quite a few focus's with sierra floorpans (or at least modified to sierra dimensions) - they'd need an IVA if you wanted to put them
back on the road, but that shouldn't be too hard as most of the light positions sharp edges etc. are taken strait from a type approved donor
and it just so happens I've got a suitable cheap focus donor car for sale at the moment 
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sdh2903
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| posted on 18/12/13 at 04:34 PM |
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Awesome link mookaloid, although I still have 50 pages to read...........
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Bare
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| posted on 19/12/13 at 03:59 AM |
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What a Effing Waste Pore old and actually worth something as a Survivour.
Retrofitted with one of the Worst Power units foisted off on the unsuspecting as "Saab' product.
IMO better to have burned the thing and claimed on the insurance.
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sdh2903
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| posted on 19/12/13 at 06:08 AM |
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You never fail to disappoint do you? 
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