So the latest saga began when I got given one of these things:
On my way through Northbridge to pick up @JakobC's keys that he had lost at the club the night before, the cops felt like expressing their dislike for how low Warick was in the rear (tucking a fair bit), his LED indicators, or the overall volume in his vicinity hahaha (their description was "emissions")
So I changed the rear tyres and spare to match the front, some Hifly HF805s in 205/50R15 (vs. existing 215/65R15) and got an alignment while I was at it. I swapped the cut King SL rear springs for my old IPD ones. The combo made it look a lot more "respectable."
Initially I was running just the stock resonator and nothing else, so got that changed for a triple flow muffler which quietened it down a lot. Put some halogen indicators in too just in case.
Took it to get inspected at All Autos in Balcatta and they told me to:
replace the LED headlight bulbs with halogensput the top timing belt cover back onremove all stickers from all windowsput some pedal pads onreplace my brake lines with compliant onespre-pay for a mod permit for the gearbox swapfix bonnet movement while closed
Headlights, timing cover, pedal pads, mod permit were all easy and sorted same day. The bonnet took a night of tweaking and messing around with different combinations of washers but it's spot on now.
The stickers and brake lines were the main sticking points - before I left All Autos I spoke to the guy and he was completely adamant that all the stickers on the car needed to be removed, so I decided not to take it back there for the next inspection. I did a lot of research and couldn't really come to the conclusion that they were all 100% illegal. I decided as a result to remove/move the ones that were in my "line of sight" (front of the rear passenger windows, rear windscreen).
I called HEL in QLD and they managed to confirm for me that all their brake lines are ADR compliant but didn't really go into too much detail. A friend suggested maybe the concern was rub-through of the stainless braid so I cable tied some heater hose over the front lines prior to the next inspection.
On another friend's advice I tried taking it to Pebco instead, they were pretty happy with it but came up with a few things:
remove the stickers in front of the C pillars and from the headlightreplace brake lines with compliant onesput wheels and tyres on that match the placardthey needed to do LB1 form for manual swap whenever it passed
I was much happier about the sticker situation and sorted that overnight.
The guy said the lines did not mention that they were ADR compliant on them, but not to worry about covering them up with rubber. Apparently although it was close, the overall rolling diameter was too different for it to comply, which I checked afterwards and I don't believe to be true since the spec on the placard only says 185 R 14 and does not specify a profile.
So I did some research, it turns out that HEL lines are compliant to plenty of specs however the most applicable in terms of ADRs is FMVSS 106 (US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards), which in ADR 42/04 S.15 it states are of suitable standard for flexible brake hoses. I printed a copy of that and the test certificate from HEL's website to bring with me.
Brandon (@themrlopez) kindly lent me a set of stockies which had Warick looking like Mitch's (@mitchell.rock) car for a day ?
Since my first inspection the reverse switch in my M46 gave up, so I had to come up with an alternative otherwise I knew I wouldn't have been compliant for the LB1 form (reverse lights have to work by law). As a workaround I got a few different types of momentary switches from Jaycar, and ended up settling on a Himake SM1039 SPDT micro switch which I extended the arm of with a bit of coathanger wire and made a bracket to mount it to the rear reverse lockout bar bolt, and made up a short cable to go from the connector under the dash to the switch. It took a bit of bending and patience to adjust but it works really well.
So after all that I gave it another go and it passed! (thank fuck)
Big thanks for everyone's help and support, very important as there is a certain amount of impending doom that one feels on a daily basis knowing there's a yellow sticker on their windscreen.
Of course the requisite thing to do when you get a yellow off is to return everything to how it was, which is mostly what I did lol
On top of that I fitted the strut brace @polaris1955 sold me and since fully opaque stickers on windscreens are against the law I decided to put the banner I had on the side of the car instead.
That pretty much wraps it up though, next steps for Warick are to figure out a stiffer rear spring solution and to work on sanding/polishing my pair of Armorlites.
