has anyone put there kit thro s.v.a. and had a vauxhall 16v engine in her.?? im hoping to try get it thro but ,im using a later red top which had a cat on it as standard.and im running it on 45 webbers.looks like im gonna struggle.any help lads/?????

what year is the engine?
If its pre '95 it should be OK.
By my sva guide book, engines from '87 to '95 are put through same emissions.
But then again they (sva gadgies) might have changed the goalposts since it was published.

TALK TO ME BILLY!!!

Pre "95 (June I think) should get through with carbs and no cat. You will need to be able to prove the age of the engine, a letter from Vx would be the best. Emissions test is at idle only CO2 3.5% with Hydrocarbons at 1200, easy to meet if tuned correctly. After 95 must have cat fitted...Why not go with injection? cost difference not that much and then no problems.

Engine was heartlessly ripped from a J plate Cav GSi. No documents available as the rest of the car was broken and disposed of by the owner. Trying to work out the engine number is nearly mission impossible due to corrosion. We have submitted a change of engine number onto the donor vehicle, so we have 1 sierra running a 20XE lump.... and we hope to use the plates from the sierra which would give the kit an 'A' plate. The car is driveable up and down the 'private' road we have - theres no question of ripping off twin 45's and dizzy'd electronic ignition to try and get fuel injection/an ecu on the thing now


Cheers


G

Mr G,

If you do go fuel injection can I have first refusal on your (weber 45) inlet manifold, I'll need one for my Xe!

Cheers,

Andrew.

[Edited on 20/5/03 by ned]

I think you will need to seek advice on this one from Mr. SVA. I'm not sure what emissions test they will put you through if you cannot prove the age of the engine, the last thing you want is being stuck with a SVA emissions test which requires a cat. I'm not sure if changing the engine to the donor car will help as most testers know the engine was not fitted to the donor so is no proof of age. Is it not poss to try and find out what format the engine number should be from a scrapped engine of the same age and see if this helps you to identify your blocks number, then you could restore it....The first two charactors on the Zetec block identify the year/month, maybe Vx are similar. Getting a letter from Vx stops all arguements come test time.

The engine was not put in the donor to try and use as proof of age, more to increase the number of parts used from the donor, i.e engine number on the V5 will be that of the engine in the kit, along with the brakes, steering, uprights, diff, prop,driveshafts etc etc. This has been discussed before on a previous thread

If we don't get to keep the donors plate then we will at least possibly get a normal plate on 1983 'A' from the donor - category D kitcar registration i seem to remember reading.

We think we know what the number should be so we will try and investigate with Vauxhall

I am sure you will get a age related plate without the engine coming out of the donor. The guy who inspected mine said that people have tried to make out a Fireblade lump came out of a Sierra...It's all done on points, if you've used suspension (front uprights), steering, brakes, gearbox and rear axle then you should OK for an age related plate. I've never heard of anyone keeping donor plate recently, I suspect the plate is not available on the database till after the new registration number has been issued, and the donor officially scrapped.

The donor registration was issued to my car at Sheffield VRO. I used all except the Sierra axle and front hubs.

yours, Pete.

That shut me up!

well cheers for the responce,looks like i need to just put it thro sva and see what it fails on.but first................lets smoke those tyres down the lane.lol