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Jul 21, 2016 19:21:47 GMT
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I made a jig for the sight line but it's not looking too good as the line barely clears the bottom of the screen which I think might be a fail. If I raise the seat then I lose the forward vision as the roof dash/top of screen cuts off my view.  Sightline down the specified angle;  This confirms that no scoop can be fitted for the test anyway  Scoop has its first guide coat of primer on it - some small areas need a little skim of filler but it looks pretty straight now. Ignore the paint runs - I sprayed it in the dark at 11 oclock last night, lol.  |
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Jul 21, 2016 19:50:10 GMT
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Excuses, excuses :-) All my spraying looks like that prior to sanding.
With the Pop screen being so narrow there isn't much room for manoeuvre.
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Last Edit: Jul 21, 2016 19:51:22 GMT by nalesutol
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Jul 22, 2016 19:22:15 GMT
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Well some good news!!! I cut some new foam padding for the seat today, I added 1" extra in the seat and 1.25" in the backrest (only seat cover on back so far and only 1" foam in the seat originally) and I now have a decent sightline even with the seat at its rearmost position.  New sightline;  Carried on from mark on window (confirmed with laser level) the scoop 'just' clears by a little over a millimetre!!  |
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Jul 22, 2016 20:50:11 GMT
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More than a millimetre? Plenty of clearance :-) A pass is a pass, no matter how close to a fail it is.
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Jul 22, 2016 22:51:48 GMT
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Agreed! Laser level (now I've found it) shows scoop might not pass but thats ok I'll just leave it off.
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Jul 23, 2016 12:25:55 GMT
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I am amazed at the hoops you have to jump through to get a Hot Rod on the road. Here in North America the drones who are trying to save us from ourselves are tempered by the fact that the Hot Rod market is billions of dollars and lots of jobs that they would be getting rid of.
I applaud your dedication to getting this on the road.
Once it is on the road, what level of compliance enforcement do you face? ie the scoop, if it passes without it, and later on the scoop should find itself on the car, does anyone care or ever become aware? How about when you sell?
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Last Edit: Jul 23, 2016 12:28:21 GMT by bjornagn
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vulgalour
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Jul 23, 2016 13:05:57 GMT
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My understanding is you do all this to make it pass and then you just make whatever changes you want afterwards because it doesn't need to go through again. A lot of the legislation does seem rather pointless for a car like this, particularly radius edges and whatnot.
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Jul 23, 2016 14:01:29 GMT
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What you fit after the test is legal up to the point it contravenes construction & use regs or any motoring laws or alters the car beyond our 8 points system. Once it passes IVA it is back to a full 14 points so I can do a fair few major mods before going below 8 points again - where it would legally be liable to pass IVA once more. Ref the old tall scoop - it's fairly likely if I were stopped the police would not like it and I would be liable for a fine or worse. Ref the new scoop - the police would be fine with it as they don't even know about the 'sightline' required for IVA and as it does not interfere with forward vision they would not even think about it. Vulgalour is mistaken about doing whatever changes you like, see first paragraph for the constraints. Selling is no issue as it (will be) registered as a 2016 car so fully legal in every sense possible, unlike many of the modified cars on the road today. The radius rules are actually worthwhile, they minimise injury in the event of an accident, my build has difficulty as the car was made 60 years before the regs were drawn up, so parts on it are sharper than a more modern car. An update is the scoop is now in it's first coat of gloss, its looking well, some minor filler work will see it perfect. I found my fixed laser level & checked it - I think it's just a little tall to pass the test - I could leave it on to find out, but I think I'll leave it off as there are probably many other borderline parts on the car so best not to have too many 'iffy' parts on for the test.  |
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vulgalour
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Jul 23, 2016 16:27:46 GMT
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That makes more sense of it than I'd been led to believe. I was under the impression that the restrictions were more of a deterrent against modifying rather than setting up a baseline to bring all heavily modified cars into a sensible safe zone that you could then modify from. As ever, this thread is proving to be informative and dispelling quite a few myths about what you can and can't do within the rules.
I imagine most of your work is, as you say, updating a 60 year old design to modern standards. Doing a car just 20 years younger would be considerably easier, I expect.
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Jul 23, 2016 17:30:40 GMT
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Yes,a more modern style would have a lot more stuff fitted as std, so making it much easier to pass.
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richrolls
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Jul 23, 2016 17:54:29 GMT
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Still following and admiring the build annnnnnd detail. Don't know if I mentioned it earlier, I found the SVA (as it was then)testers very helpful and gave free, good advise. Have you managed to stalk/befriend one yet? Could be a very helpful NBF. Anyway, Don't let the bar persons grind you down.
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Jul 23, 2016 21:59:19 GMT
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Thanks Rich, not done that yet but it seems a good idea, will try to get down to testing station to ask questions!
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Jul 30, 2016 16:08:12 GMT
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Scoop all finished - just needs flatting & polishing.  |
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Jul 31, 2016 10:29:03 GMT
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Looks good. Any bigger and it would have looked out of proportion with the rest of the car.
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Jul 31, 2016 10:51:47 GMT
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great work there mark.
a 20yr newer car could be worse due to the main problem. GLASS.
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Jul 31, 2016 20:11:01 GMT
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True Chris - it's very model dependant.
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Jul 31, 2016 20:23:42 GMT
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Looks good. Any bigger and it would have looked out of proportion with the rest of the car. Oh, I don't know........   |
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This thread, and several other, seems to have dropped off my "participated" feed so......re-book marked!!
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Looks good. Any bigger and it would have looked out of proportion with the rest of the car. Oh, I don't know........ Aggghhhhhhh!!!!! |
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Finally we are a bit more caught up at work so we could run my parts. We punched out some 1.5mm ally sheet for the mesh that will fill the bonnet hole;  and also the MkIII version of the rear lamp casing, top needs to be welded in but checking fit first.  |
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