Azzvan

[Bedfordcrazy]

You hit the nail on the head benny, every state is different, in it laws, and that is the whole problem with this country, but slowly things are changing. At the moment a sparky from qld can not go to vic to work, and vice versa, at this time a tradie can not move from state to state. When i was working as a PI, i was licenced in one state, when i moved to qld, i could not work till i got a qld licence. When i was working on a missing child case years ago [ mother skipped with the daughter] for me to cross the boarder i had to get a nsw pi to work with me, i could work on his licence, still the same. Tweed heads, Police in qld can not step over the line and cross into nsw without getting clearence from coms in both states. The sooner the whole country is covered by one set of licences, trades the better.

Hey guys NZ has just been hit by a massive earthquake, just minutes ago.

george.

[jesus_is_alright]

Man, you fellas are paranoid. I've always followed the info from vicroads and never had a problem.

http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/CC48FC10-4D57-4F04-82E1-3BD72EF88340/0/VSI8.pdf

Read item 8 - wheels, and item 12 - exhausts. Mags are allowed, sidepipes are allowed. I've had both on my vans, and never had a problem.
Maybe I'm just lucky.

yes you can have mags, but you cannot have a track increase of more than 25mm
The standard beddy wheels had a 1.5" positive offset, so you'd need to have mags with between 1" and 1.5" postitive offset.
ie on a 7" mag around 5- 5.5" backspace and an 8" mag about 5.5-6" backspace
most jellybeans at least have about a 3-3.5" backspace making them illegal by this clause

[Bas NZ]

Gee, if I lived over there, I would give up on customizing anything......

[Bedfordcrazy]

Hey Bas, mate that is about the size of it, we have so many rules that are against customisers it's not funny. Probably why we dont have a custom car industry in oz, like they do in yank land, we have a few but not enough for the amount of people taking up the craze. At the end of the day common sense on our part has to happen, by that i mean, do the custom work but keep it as close to safe as possible, that way they can not nail you.

george.

[Bas NZ]

George, are some of these rules new, lets face it Oz has put out some very ratical vans in the past, but I can understand what you are saying, but it would be great if you could let the mind run wild and put those plans on paper into reality...

[restoreid]

Hey fellers you all should read the second last page called the last word in the March 2011 issue of The Australian Street Rodder All about the NEW rules for NSW I think its going to get WORSE Cheers Reid

[Bedfordcrazy]

Hey Reid, can you scan and post that page for us.

Hey Bas, mate the problem we have here in oz is that black and white is always gray. There are 2 ways we can run with your imagination, 1 being the half price rego, if you go that path, you can get away with a lot, but the restrictions are rediculous, log books, only 14ks from home, and dozens more. 2. if you dont want to register you can go wild and out there, but you have to trailer your van everywhere.
Here is what pisses me off here bas, you go for the hot rod rego ok, log books and so on, how hypicritical are these guys, the reason we can not do these mods is for safety, but if you get a restricted rego, they will let the same mods on the road with other motorists. For instance, i am not allowed to have my side pipes on full rego, but on a restricted rego i can, i still have the same level of danger, risk, this is where this country is so stuffed, nothing is black and white, and the gray area is not gray, it can have dozens of levels, just to complicate things more. You can buy air horns for your car, but you can't fit them, why not just ban them from being imported, revenue.
I think part of the problem here is this, and this is a fact, we have V8 Supercars australia here, or did.  On tv they will cancell, slice and dice and move it to suite the telecast of football and cricket, they will shorten a motor race telecast if football follows, but god forbid they should miss a second of bloody football and cricket, to be fair i can not stand football and cricket, unless i want to go to sleep, point being the government, networks and others do not have an interest in cars and hot rodding and V8s, they screen it because of the revenue.
I dont know the answer, except to say, you need to have people in transport who are hot rodders, to design common sense rules. As for how old are these rules, it's like this bas, some of these rules are decades old, but some generations just dont enforce them, then the next will, or, all of a sudden you will have a spat of illegally modified cars in crashes, so they start to enforce again to look as if they are doing something. Look at it like this mate, depending on who answers the phn next time, my side pipes  may be allowed. lol   

george.

[jesus_is_alright]

Wow, things just keep costing more money
Shorten tailshaft and new uni's $300ish
New solid brake lines for HQ diff $140ish
But after that, i've got to be getting pretty close to driving her again for the first time since November
Will just need the vacuum lines looked at, a speedo reduction box that i can only order after i know how far out the speedo is (anyone know where to get them made), a new exhaust (although not necessary to drive) and a few other minor things

I went to an auto-paint store and found out that i need to allow around $1200 in material for a paintjob (Not $4000 like one painter told me)
This has given me a new enthusiasm for getting her painted
Also found out if i go a solid grey as opposed to metallic i only need 2 coats of color (plus primers/fillers) etc rather than 2 coats of metallic color and 2 coats of clear.
Saving not only the cost of 2 coats of paint but also the labour, so maybe i will be able to get her painted sooner than later.

Still looking at getting brand new mags from the US for the front. Just need to wait and see some actual photos to make sure they match the back

[jesus_is_alright]

Oh i just looked at page on of this thread and i said i was going to give a costing sheet for my project,
well i can tell you with either great pride or great humility (I'm not sue which) that i've just cracked $10,000
Which is about the same as a late 90's early 00's Hiace with 200,000-400,000kms

[Numnutz]

What gearbox do you have in your van?

I know when I changed the diff in my HQ I got a different coloured cog to go on the end of the speedo cable (the end that goes into the trans).
different coloured cogs have more or less teeth. That was for a Trimatic.

When I changed the trans I had a new speedo cable made here in Adelaide, just gave them length and and told them what it was connecting to, job done.
they were called Flexible Drive or something like that.