Vic Power To Weight Ratio

[OKBANANA]

Hey Guys, Just thought i'd give you some information on the Victorian power to weight ratio, which people on a provisional license have to obey.

High Powered Vehicle Rule:

While you can drive most vehicles, you are not permitted to drive a high powered car. These are cars which have a power to weight ratio greater than 125 kilowatts per tonne or with a capacity to weight ratio of more than 3.5 litres per tonne. A list of cars which may not be driven is available from VicRoads Registration and Licensing offices.

Exemptions:

A person is allowed to drive a high powered vehicle if:

a. Your employer requires you to drive the car in the course of your employment.

b. If you hold an exemption issued by VicRoads, but VicRoads will only grant an exemption if:

• it is the only car owned by your family

• the car is used for business as well as social use and no other non high powered car is owned by your family.

Applications for a high powered vehicle exemption must be made in person at a VicRoads office. Exemptions are for a nominated vehicle and must be carried at all times.

The high powered vehicle and requirement to display P plate conditions do not apply to a member of the police force in the course of duty and driving a police motor vehicle. The requirement to display a P plate also does not apply to a member of the CFA driving a vehicle in the course of fire fighting operations.

BUT:

This rule also does work in our favour, example:

I may go out and buy a R34 25GT (As this is legal to drive), and i may tune this car within excess of 1000HP, and it is considered legal for me to drive this car.

Why? you ask, because these Victorian rules go on the Stock Factory Specifications on the car in question.

Note:

Here is a little .exe file that will help you in your questions whether your car is a high powered car or not, here's how it works:

You type in the KW rating of your car, tonnes and capacity, and then it instantly tells you if it's a high powered vehicle or not.

http://www.pop69pop.com/~sam/HPV.exe

*thanks to sam for this handy little .exe application.

[THE CHIEF]

Glad Im off my "P's" and none of this applies to me anymore

[BlaCk Pearl]

oh u turn me on dallas

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goodjob

[riggaP]

BUT:

This rule also does work in our favour, example:

I may go out and buy a R34 25GT (As this is legal to drive), and i may tune this car within excess of 1000HP, and it is considered legal for me to drive this car.

Why? you ask, because these Victorian rules go on the Stock Factory Specifications on the car in question.

Generally true, but not quiet that simple. To modify a GT to reach 1000HP, and keep it on the road legally, you'll probably need an engineers report. This is where the law goes "grey" and even senior staff at VR have trouble explaining the legalities of it because you now have a legal document stating that the car is no longer in the factory form.

The other thing to remember is that VR provide the rules, the police enforce them. How the police interpret the law can also come into play.

Reasons for having such a law make sence but in its current form and how its enforced is :bs!:

[sammus]

A list of cars which may not be driven is available from VicRoads Registration and Licensing offices.

 

cool... might be interesting/handy to have one of those lists

[riggaP]

I've said this a billion times, that list was phased out in 2000 (so no cars built after 2000 are on it). It is still available because every car originally on it is still restricted, but you should go by the power/capacity to weight ratios now.

[OKBANANA]

I've said this a billion times, that list was phased out in 2000 (so no cars built after 2000 are on it). It is still available because every car originally on it is still restricted, but you should go by the power/capacity to weight ratios now.

So a 2002 or 2001 R34 GT-R would'nt be on the list?

[SS8_Gohan]

I heard Skylines weren't on the list? I know R33 turbo's onwards are illegal, but i didn't think quite a few imports where listed. And you really don't need an .exe to work it out, although i believe rrrage knocked that one up? handy for sure, if a computer is on

recipe for power to weight

1 kerb weight

1 fly wheel power weight

1 calculator

move decimal place of kerb weight 3 places to the left to get it in tonnes

ie. 1410kg becomes 1.41 tonnes.

as it's "power to weight" - get the power figure, say 206kw's.

206 divide by weight (1.41) - 206/1.41 = 146kw/tonne - illegal.

and that's ur R34 GT-T - am i going to care? not really, i know a few p plater skyliners and they don't seem to have problems.

cheers.

[riggaP]

So a 2002 or 2001 R34 GT-R would'nt be on the list?

Correct. It is P plate restriced under the power to weight ratio.

From memory the only Skyline on the list is the Aus delivered 32 GTR.

[coco69]

i just got pulled over this morning at knox, spent about 20 minutes with the cops.

apparently my car is illegal for P's... and he let me off with a warning. pfft...

but yeah, i thought r32 gts turbo's were okay!

dunno... but being polite always pays off...

[GR33DY]

hahahah knox man is the WORST place to go with ur car.. seriously, i live around the area and i know a few guys, one in TT 300zx and R33GTST being taken off the road by a certain police officer named officer PETIT or something.. be careful man!

[sammus]

And you really don't need an .exe to work it out, although i believe rrrage knocked that one up? handy for sure, if a computer is on

i needed something to do in year 9 IT class might aswell make something useful instead of a program which calculates prices of 24 apples at 76c each, eh?