Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

I put Rosie through the DIckson pits today and the results are below.

Some key notes

- need 3 point child safety now

- Tyre's passed (Running 275 rear and 235 front - passed)

- Susspension is bogus and will need to get redone

-Exhaust reading was at 98dB

img-X11093345-0001.pdf

Edited by RosieR34

By "need 3 point child safety now" do you mean the mounting points on the parcel shelf?? If so, have fun with that. Mine ended up costing a touch over $1000 thanks to also needing to be added to engineer's certificate, though you might be able to get away with "off the shelf" bits someone has mentioned somewhere before.

Well - before, I had to get something signed which they provided the specefic paper for. This time I didn't get paper for the child restraints to be signed and was told to get child restraints for each back seat and to make sure it's done properly as it is a safety issue - he didn't mention anything about signing or need a certificate. The only Mods I am currently running is a bigger intercooler, Pod filter and exhaust. However, on the paper the exahust is "Ticked" so I'm guessing it passed (but not the noise). I could box in my air filter as they normally do not look under it - they did not note down that I had an aftermarket pod filter so might be lucky. As for the intercooler - that maybe my only issue for mods.

The big pain killer is the suspension but... if I can get a cheap set at a legal high then shouldn't be too hard.

Yeah that should be easy, the pod and the muffler, but the intercooler? maybe try find a stockie to borrow.

What about just springs, or even sneakier, chock the springs up with something to get it higher.

If you dont plan on having kids in the car, maybe remove all child restraints? could you rego it with none?

If it just for rego, get the cheapest sht you can, then change back.

Front tyre load rating? what a load of.... ive never heard of that on a passenger car.

You have to get an engineers report??? Isn't that going to be the killer? Don't they cost a fortune?

The pod should be fine, you're allowed them here unboxed. Mine passed with my pod and intercooler no dramas.

I don't understand why it wouldn't have the child anchor points in it already unless someone has taken them out. They should have been put in during compliance. It doesn't matter if it never sees a baby seat, it's an Australian Safety Standard and that's why it's one of the main things that gets done when compliancing.

Yeah that should be easy, the pod and the muffler, but the intercooler? maybe try find a stockie to borrow.

What about just springs, or even sneakier, chock the springs up with something to get it higher.

If you dont plan on having kids in the car, maybe remove all child restraints? could you rego it with none?

If it just for rego, get the cheapest sht you can, then change back.

Front tyre load rating? what a load of.... ive never heard of that on a passenger car.

The pod shoudl be easy - the Muffler/ Exhaust got a tick - does that mean my current muffler is legal?

Thought about finding some stockies just to get by but I need suspension done regardless (Aftermarket rear and stock front)

Regardless of rear passengers you are required to have them - I said no child is going in the back of my car - still need them.

Yeah - trying to cheapos at first - anyone willing to lend? haha :D

Well there you go.

Is that you Rob?! :)

33 and 34 suspension the same...? I have my old shocks/springs lying around

No idea - probably not. Will have to check it out. Considering getting 2nd hand adjustables and keeping it in the car ready for rego as I do need new suspension.

You have to get an engineers report??? Isn't that going to be the killer? Don't they cost a fortune?

The pod should be fine, you're allowed them here unboxed. Mine passed with my pod and intercooler no dramas.

I don't understand why it wouldn't have the child anchor points in it already unless someone has taken them out. They should have been put in during compliance. It doesn't matter if it never sees a baby seat, it's an Australian Safety Standard and that's why it's one of the main things that gets done when compliancing.

I only need an engineers report for the Mods or the guy said I can bring it back to stock. So yeah, I can avoid that one. As for the child restraints engineers report - I was given a specfic paper last time - this time I had given no paper.

I have a single middle child restraint which looks like a duel cap (Can fit two seats) but he said they need to be induvidal - which is weird.

I had none when i bought my car.

I went to roofrack city in phillip for advice, they do installs.

Then DIY in the middle of the parcel shelf, all i needed was a really big washer to spread the load.

Cost me nothing. $1000 for 3? crikey!

They are so lame sometimes, the missuses Volvo only has one, and its a 2002 model

Wont be long till my 32 is old enough to be classed as classic and get away with everything.

Edited by D.I.Y. Mik

The ones I've always seen in Skylines have been 1 on each side, usually straight through the speakers lol

What is your current setup in your 34? 2 on either side? I'm pretty sure I have aftermarket speakers so it's entirely possible that mine are not "standard".

CBF replying to everything relevant haha, so:

I had none when i bought my car.

I went to roofrack city in phillip for advice, they do installs.

Then DIY in the middle of the parcel shelf, all i needed was a really big washer to spread the load.

Cost me nothing. $1000 for 3? crikey!

They made me get them fitted and my report amended. Got the same guy doing the report to do the restraints. Coz he does everything to the book, he had to fabricate the mounts from scratch as the correct location falls inside the speakers (made a "bridge" to go over the speaker but under the mesh). Fabrication of the mounts, testing them to ensure they comply with structural requirements as per ADR, then amending my certificate came to ~$1045 or something. Absolute joke, but not like the kunts at DICKson gave me a choice.

I mean, the pieces of shit were even kind enough to wait until I came back for my reinspection (outside of 30 days from first one) after having done an absolute buttload of f**king around and fixing shit up to get the certificate in the first place, before they failed me for child restraints missing as well as the window tint on my rear windows. Yeah, coz those things were totally roadworthy the first time they went over the vehicle and between inspections I decided to apply illegal tint and remove all traces of the mounts.

f**k Dickson RTA inspection station, and f**k every piece of shit that works there.

Do ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING you can to avoid taking your car there, as well as avoiding getting an engineer's certificate for modifications. If I had my chance again, I would have cancelled the rego and found someone who'll do a dodgy roadworthy. Even if I had to pay them $500 to do it, I'd still be better off having avoided the ridiculous expenses I incurred as well as more stress than I ever want to deal with again.

  • Like 1

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Intake manifold is not a part of the issue. The turbo bolts to the exhaust manifold. That is easy. But close your eyes and picture the physical situation. That is a T3 flange on the manifold and a T3 flange on the turbo. As long as any new turbo has a T3 flange on the exhaust housing, that exhaust housing will bolt to the exhaust manifold. This places the exhaust housing in the same place as the stock one. But now move your mental attention a little further forward. The location of the compressor housing is set by the length of the turbo's core. The stock turbo had a long core. Let's say that it is..... 100mm long. So that would place the compressor housing 100mm forward of the exhaust housing. But a highflow, might well have a centre core that is shorter. Let's say that it is only 70mm long. Now the compressor housing will be 30mm further back in the engine bay than the stock one. This DOES move the turbo's compressor outlet backwards. It also moves the compressor's inlet backwards. You will very likely have to do some work to both the inlet and outlet piping to make everything connect again. I am not say this to make it out to be a bigger deal than it is. I am just pointing out that "bolt on" is sometimes not quite bolt on. The highflow from GCG that Murray linked above (https://gcg.com.au/turbo-charger-upgrade-skyline-gtst-2iu-xtrgts-s1.html ) uses a core that is the same length as the stock core, and so does not require this extra work. It will look very much like the stock turbo. No-one uses GTR turbos of any flavour (stock, or aftermarket) in a single turbo application on RB20/25. It's not a thing. Yes, people have been putting on GT3076, GTX3076 (and bigger and smaller versions of those) and G30s (of various sizes) onto RB20/25 since forever. But these are not "bolt on". Everything except the 4 bolts to the exhaust manifold change with these. And genuine Garretts are expensive. Non-gen, like Pulsar, etc, are cheaper, variously as good or nearly as good. But still not bolt on. No-one in the right mind would pay for an HKS turbo. Not in this modern day and age. Well, yes, the GCG highflow. You could ask HG what he can do to make the compressor housing sit in the original location. There are surely others doing highflows around the world. And some of the eBay/Temu ones (as reported by Dose) work and don't die. Bit of a lottery though. I would send your turbo to GCG (here in Oz) to be highflowed if you want a trivial no-extra-work option. But seriously, the work required to change inlet and outlet piping is not that hard. That's a boost control problem, not a turbo problem.
    • Thank you all for the replys 🙂 I know that intake would be different but that is one pipe at it is not that hard to get(custom one). I meant mainly bolt to the stock manifold and the turbo elbow. I looked and many sites/forums but they are just "old" with some old HKS turbos from GT-R i guess? What about some Garrets?  Or any other turbo? Is there even a turbo which i can just bolt on? 😄 And yeah i know about that new HKS but that is like 2000k USD without taxes/shipping in here   Iam getting a touch up tune but my "problem" is that on the "not" hot day iam getting peaks around 0,9 bar...and when it was around 15 Celsious i saw peak around 1 bar which is just too much for stock turbo. And of course turbo is old and i like to get some new one for a piece of mind 🙂 
    • I'm working on the assumption that our friend Jasmine here is a Russian (or, possibly Ukrainian) spammer/spambot, based purely on the number of such that I have been having to neuter in the last few weeks. IP address for the OP above was in WA. But that could have been via VPN. Posting at quarter to 4 in the morning is a good sign of being from somewhere in Europe. The last Jasmine that I kicked in the cooch was IP addressed in Ukraine. Even that could have been via VPN, and the bitchbot could have been from Russia, Serbia, China or anywhere. Regardless, was a spambot, so I killed it with fire. The fact that our new friend Jasmine here did not respond in any way to my tart query strongly suggests to me that this OP was just the establishment phase of a user able to be activated for spamming in a week, or 3 or 10.
    • The stock manifold is "mostly" divided. The divider actually has a notch cut out of it where it would meet the divider on a twin scroll housing. I have no idea why. But whatever the reason, it would cause some cross talk when used with a twin scroll housing. People do put twin scroll housings onto that manifold. But I'm of the opinion that proper twin scroll internal gating is...not really possible at this scale. You'd be throwing good effort (ie $$) after bad, when you really should be doing something else. Notwithstanding that.... I am not sure what the idea that you are floating has to do with the difference in comp cover position caused by the highflow using a shorter length core than the stock Hitachi one. Can you clarify what you meant?
    • Majority of regulars are > 30. We all act at least 50. Definitely not friendly as we're all grumpy. 😛
×
×
  • Create New...