Vic Spotted & Chat Thread

[MiKa]

Lucky I didn't have to cut anything.... But fark they'd still get ya...

[Pazzo]

Called joining forum as a member!

[Paulie2256]

I <3 Bananas et. you said you wouldn't dob

[freeze_dk]

New movie coming out with the rock and mark wahlburg called 'pain and gain'.. About 2 body builders in an extortion ring or something

[bradles024]

I managed to get a roadworthy for my car, had full exhaust, cooler, plenum, airbox, injectors. The only thing he was worried about was the turbo being stock. And yes he had to take pictures

[spinr33]

They keep the pictures on file they do not get sent to vicroads , I believe its in the case of the car being defected or something vicroads can then request the pictures of the car that is has been roadworthied correctly , I think more a fail safe thing now of if you pass something you shouldnt and you get caught say bye bye to the road worthy testing which is big dollars to most mechanics these days and theirfore their scared to pass borderline line things / gives them an excuse to nit pick things.

I find the best way to get a rwc is take your car their and be like give me a call when its had its rwc give me a call if its expensive otherwise just do whatever is needed haha find it always works out cheaper this way

[Shyfrd]

Not only bye bye to rwc licence but a massive fine..my mate who's a mechanic said prior to new laws they'd get them done quick. Now its a full on bring the tool chest over to the car and do it. He said can't afford to fck up or you lose a heap

[bradles024]

How is an intercooler / exhaust etc not rwc?

[JETFPV]

It's mainly HWY patrol's job to find and weed out thing's wrong with the car's to give them an unroadworthy and EPA, for instance there is a cop a HWY patrol up our way, we know him fairly well as he had a Mustang painted by Rajab's a number of year's ago and sorta became a mate of the Alan Rajab's, anyhow they brang in sorta the same thing for VL Turbo's a fair few year's back to get them off the road, this was about cooler piping going through the lower part of the inner gaurd, he came and warned Alan and said I'm giving you the head's up, the bosses have devised an idea to put all you guy's off the road, he said where are instructed to look straight for cooler piping through the inner guard, disconnect air flow meter's and see if they still run properly, search for aftermarket ECU's etc and even give an unroadworthy for a simple thing like a plastic plug that cover's the adjustment on the airflow meter enrichment...

Any car that had the intercooler piping through the inner gaurd was to be canaried and need an engineer's report for structual strength, and Alan said what about if they remove the piping and weld a plate over the hole, he said well, they still need an engineers report to say it's up to an engineer's spec so either way you were screwed....

They know they cant get the Ford's for ECU's and stuff and there's no way for them to prove they have been tuned, they are just looking for alternative way's to give them an unroadworthy, it wont be long and they will be handing out EPA's to anything with a non standard intercooler unless it has paperwork to prove it's legal, like the Nizpro gear does...

[ratter]

A car must remain emission complient to it's relevant emission level at all times to be roadworthy. Cutting anything may affect body strength, structural deformation in accidents, air bag deployment etc etc.