R.t.a. In Nsw Have Done It Again.

[Baz]

I am getting closer to having my car engineered everyday. My pair of 3" chromed Roll Bars have arrived along with my front and rear bumpers and soft top bows. The only thing left to acquire is the windscreen, which will be here in about 3 weeks and the tail shaft. Also have that problem with the
6L80E Tiptronic Transmission talking to the Engine ECU, but Jimmy Sideshow and Neil are working hard on that problem.

I purchased a set of Cobra inserts for Vintage Pin Drives from Finish Line seeing that the US$$$$ was right, but they have to be modified to fit.

While I am on that subject, I have a question for Craig White (400TT):

What modifications did you have to do to get your AC inserts to fit your Vintage Wheels? The Cobra inserts are 1/32" larger than the original Vintage centre inserts. Did you have to remove the inner lip on the actual spacers so they fitted in or did you reduce the outside diameter of the AC inserts?

That aside, back to the topic of this thread.
As you all know, these problems do occur when you are building a car from scratch, especially when you are trying to adopt new ideas. I have had my share, but today when I was over at Neil's garage, he told me that the RTA had once again moved the goal posts.

If you are familiar with my 'Gallery' you will know that I purchased a pair of
MX5 Mazda seats, had them fitted with headrest speakers and then had them completely stripped, re-shaped, re-padded, re-upholstered and double stitched in Connolly Leather. They were made to fit my rather large frame and my head sits fairly in the centre of the headrests. The finished product was fabulous or so I thought.

But that is only my opinion and apparently not shared by the NSW RTA. The new Regulations which are now being enforced by the engineers when you take your car for the initial Engineering Tests are that the top of the seats now have to be 850 mm from the flat swab of the seat where you place your rear end.

My Mazda seats are 780 mm, give or take a few mm, which makes them 7 cm too short in the height of the back support.

We are now working on some new strategies which we will have to implement in order to pass enginerring.

If you are nearing the Engineering stage in this over-governed and over-regulated State, this thread should be of some assistance to you.

Baz