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R-PWR

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Hey Guys

I'm from melbourne and maybe looking at moving to gold coast/Brisbane in the near future. I have a 97 mdl GTR and was looking at doing a great deal of performance work. Now in Melbourne, practically anything after market is illegal. Although I spoke to some workshops in brisbane and they said that I can have whatever with a mod plate. They also said mod plates are cheap and if you have one u cannot get defected/ epa'd etc. Can people please clarify

Ie can i drive my gtr with a massive high mount HKS t04z with external gate, and motec ecu, cams etc etc and make that legal, in Melbourne u cannot well its not feasible as you need to do crash testing blah blah blah.... so just wanting to know how the scene works over there, how the cops are in relation to mods etc.

In Melbourne you dont have to be doing anything wrong and you'll get screwed, but I hear Brisbane is a lot more, should i say easy going.

From what I understand you do a modification and for each modification you get a plate stamped in you engine bay stating the list of modifications, that you have and if the cops pull you up they cant get you for whats on that list. Is this correct and can people also tell me what else is involved and how much it is to do this.

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Ray

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yeah you are correct to an extent not everything can be mod plated especially an external gate. there are an emence amount of restrictions on what can and can't be modified.. so i'd do your research for at the end of the day they will only mod plate resonable modifications you can't have a full race car on the road just cause it's mod plated :) do your research first

Bunta Grand Master

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I would say providing your waste gate is plumbed in you have a fiar chance of getting all that stuff mod plated....but most times it doesn't help anyway as the police will argue that the set up has been changed since the plate was issued

R33S2 Grand Master

R33S2

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Any adjustable ECU is a fine locked or not, I found out the hard way but they are not that hard on them, I think I got off light though, the carbon over glass bonnet didnt draw a mention, nor did the FMIC turbo or exhaust, up here if your under 25 your a target and if your doing something that draws their attention, I had a laser guy ignore the car overtaking me at 130, just be sensible and stick to the limits which are quite higher than that sad state we call Victoria.

predator Grand Master

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EPA is (pretty much) non-existent up here.. it's different to melb were a copper can just look at your car and give you an EPA notice. But mod plates are available for a lot of modifications. Like Bunta says though, if a cop is nasty he'll still just do you.

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Man so u guys really are living the life. Also was just wondering what are the costs of these Mod plates??

Around 4-500 $$$$$$$. I dont even a have a mod plate for my high mount turbo, FMIC and microtech ecu. The coppers have never said anything about it.

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