richyb66

A pleasure to be there - will always travel for free food!

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Either whoever registered it at DVLA doesn't understand the system or your son in law made sure that the summary was worded to suit his registration requirements. Either way, with the modifications stated, it's a radical alteration and should have a BIVA test. Should also go on a Q plate because there's not enough parts of the original vehicle to qualify for the original reg under the points system. Beach buggys and older builds might circumvent the test if there's "substantial evidence" to demonstrate that they were constructed prior to 1998. http://www.the-ace.o...-biva/#more-751

http://www.rhocar.org/index.php?showtopic=27340&&do=findComment&comment=208587

I think you might be struggling now - this is an old thread and kirkycom hasn't been on the forum since Nov 2010

Nothing wrong with LPG. There's only bad installations and you only ever hear a few people talking about their bad experinces not the thousands who don't have any issues. The main problem is people aren't happy with just having significant fuel cost savings, they want a cheap installation too so they go somewhere that can install in a day, do a shoddy job and then have problems that they blame on the LPG. I agree that it is slightly down on power (10 - 15% probably) but if you've got a big enough engine to start with, the difference isn't worth worrying about in everyday driving. I've got lpg on my Audi S6 and do probably 600 miles a week at 69.9p a litre, at normal petrol price it would be a very difficult car to justify. The only real downside is the range is a bit limited but with a bit of planning on where I fill up I can easily work around this so it isn't a big problem. I admit that LPG probably isn't for everyone due to the initial cost outlay but for me it works very well and I feel quite smug that I'm saving close to 70p a litre.

All they seem to have done was to try and capitalise on the increased interest in track days and competition events (ggod business practice), but in excess of the number of days allowed in the 1985 agreement - an arrangement that doesn't seem to have been rigidly enforced by the council until now (and a few residents are complaining). The administrator says he's working hard to ensure racing remains at Mallory in the future when if fact all he'll probably do is shag the arse out of the business 12 months, guarantee his own payment and then realise the council would rather the site was covered in more (rate paying) houses, the site owner will sell to a developer with outline permission from the council and the only loosers will be motorsport enthusiasts. Hopefully in a years time I'll be proved wrong but I'm not holding out much hope.

Update - not great news but hopefully there'll be a satisfactory outcome: http://www.bikesportnews.com/news-detail.cfm?newsid=10595

We've had a similar situation last year near to us in Tamworth - a developer applied to put 130 houses on an area of green open space about 500m away from where I live. None of the local residents want it there and an action group was formed to oppose it. We wrote objection letters, went to meetings and raised opposition on a number of fairly valid points like increased traffic flow on an already busy road, extra strain on local resources like schools and doctors, less areas of open space in the town etc. All the developer could say was it offered more housing in the area. In the end when it went to the planning committee vote, it was split 50 / 50 so the chairman used his casting vote to approve it anyway. Further appeals can be made but from this point it would start to get costly to oppose and the developer know it, so effectively it now a done deal. In the grand scheme of things the development won't have a massive effect on me, at least not compared to HS2 Phase 2, which I recently found out will pass within about 180m of my house!! Naturally I'm really opposed to this, I don't see it offers any real benefit (certainly not to me) and not the the UK as a whole unless you want to commute from Leeds to London 30 minutes quicked that you can currently and the cost benefits to the economy just seem to be figures pulled out of the air. The completed route will mostly be in tunnels and cuttings so the actual disruption from it when it's finished is likely to be quite small, my main concern is the effect such a massive project will have on the local area while it's being built and that this will have a huge impact on property prices and saleability. Good luck with the fight. You biggest problem will be maintaining the initial momentum of peoples opposition if it becomes a long drawn out fight.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100... If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this... The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay £1. The sixth would pay £3. The seventh would pay £7.. The eighth would pay £12. The ninth would pay £18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay £59. So, that's what they decided to do.. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve ball. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by £20". Drinks for the ten men would now cost just £80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men? The paying customers? How could they divide the £20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share? They realised that £20 divided by six is £3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by a higher percentage the poorer he was, to follow the principle of the tax system they had been using, and he proceeded to work out the amounts he suggested that each should now pay. And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% saving). The sixth now paid £2 instead of £3 (33% saving). The seventh now paid £5 instead of £7 (28% saving). The eighth now paid £9 instead of £12 (25% saving). The ninth now paid £14 instead of £18 (22% saving). The tenth now paid £49 instead of £59 (16% saving). Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But, once outside the bar, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a pound out of the £20 saving," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,"but he got £10!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a pound too. It's unfair that he got ten times more benefit than me!" "That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get £10 back, when I got only £2? The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison, "we didn't get anything at all. This new tax system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had their beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill! And that, boys and girls, journalists and government ministers, is how our tax system works. The people who already pay the highest taxes will naturally get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas, where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

+1 from me. Makes the club look more inclucive and open to everyone - which has to be a good thing.

I think that thing that might help you here is the fact that the kittten's got a seperate chassis - if you did a similar mod to a monocoque car you'd definitely need IVA. I'm pretty sure that the z-cars mini conversions where you put a bike engine or a Honda car engine in the back of a mini now need IVA as they require substantial cutting and alteration of the bodyshell.

It would depend on what else you change other than the engine to get it work. You need to get 8 points from carry over components to retain the current vehicle identity (assuming that it has one). The majority of the points come from the chassis - 5 points if it remains UNMODIFIED. That basically means keeping everything from the existing chassis and only making additions to the structure to make it all work - ANY chassis cutting and you're basically into IVA territory. See this for more detail: http://www.the-ace.org.uk/Chassis-and-Monocoque-Modification.html Front and rear axles would score 2 points and front and rear suspension would score another 2 as well. Assuming you'll have to swap the rear axle for someting beefier, you'll only score 2 points here from a possible 4 Steering scores 2 points as well. 5 + 2 + 2 = 9 points and I think you might score another point for the body if that's unmodified as well so it should just be possible. You'd be in a similar scenario to a hot rod body-swap (except you're actually keeping the body) but everything else would apply. Have a read of this: http://www.nsra.org.uk/newforum/showthread.php?23185-Re-bodying-a-definative-thread this is exactly what gaz0571 followed when building his rod - he only needed an MOT and a DVLA VIC and the car is now correctly and legally registered. Another good source of information if you can be bothered to have a trawl around the Tech section is on www.rodnsods.co.uk

Becketts Farm meeting in Brum was near a cop shop too - and didn't make a scrap of difference there. Idiots will do their thing regardless of who's around. Any free meeting will eventually become a victim of it's own sucess because it's impossible to control a minority of idiots in a big crowd. Towards the end, Becketts Farm was a bad accident waiting to happen, fortunately the organisers realised and shut it down. It's interesting to note that the Becketts meeting was originally held nearby at the Royal Sun Alliance site but it was closed down there because they were concerned people could walk around the landscaped gardens and they've got areas of water that aren't cordoned off!!! H&S and all that.

I'd have thought the bulkhead would be fibreglass. More likely to be a ropey sound deadening pad?

This is the cheapest I found http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C399393 (If you call £5.5k cheap)

That's what I did on mine as I knew the stainless chassis would be difficult to stamp. Had the VIN laser engraved on a strip of stainless steel and then welded that to the chassis. Passed IVA at Derby no problems.

The E mark proves that the item meets the required standard in whichever country the mark related to E1 - Germany, E2 - France, E11 - UK etc. However the required standard will vary between individual countries (as will the interpretation of the same standard) - much like IVA itself. However the key thing is that once an item it E marked in one country, it's then (generally) accepted by other countries as being OK - even though it might not actually meet their standard. It's should also be noted that certain countries are more 'relaxed' about their approvals that others so a manufacturer of say aftermarket lamps who wished to get them E marked, might go to Turkey rather than the UK to get their approval. This is a common occurance with OEM vehicles where for example a vehicle sold in the UK that may have been approved in Germany, doesn't actually comply with the UK standard but is still allowed to be sold here. If you've ever wondered why the exterior styling of Audi's look so crisp and sharp, it's because they actually use much smaller radii on the exteriors of their cars, which are then approved in Germany. In the UK the minimum radius permissible would be around 2.5mm (similar to the IVA standard) so in principle, an Audi would fail IVA in exterior projections!

I'm heading back from Wales so can't make it. Left at 945 and had an hour and a half of pouring rain. Already narrowly avoided 2 collisions and the roads are full of tw@ts with no lights on. Stopped now at Shrewsbury for food and fuel. Should be back in Tam by 145. Hope everyone has a good day.

Love it! Great bit of filming from Bri, thanks for posting.

There's a classic and sports car show at The Cottage Inn, Fillongley near Coventry, 11AM onwards on Sunday 8th September. BBQ, pig roast and outside bar available. Local member Steve49er should be arranging to bag some space in the top field for any RHOCar attendees. More details can be found here: http://cottageinnfillongley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/classic-and-sports-car-show-2013.html and location details are here: http://www.thecottageinnfillongley.co.uk/findus.html

I'm not sure and he's on holibobs this week and I'm off next week. I'll leave him a note at work to remind him.

This coming Wednesday 28th August 7PM onwards as usual. Malt Shovel Pub Stonebridge Island, Coventry Road, Coventry, CV7 7HL

£3000 buys a lot of retunes

I pmsl at the price too. ....or get this for 1/10th of the money. Probably not as economical but you could put the money saved towards the fuel bill. http://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/stuff-sale/four-dellorto-inlet-manifold-rover-v8-engine-68631