this subject has sooo many grey areas! so much so that im sure i could convince a cop that i dont even need a mod plate

anyywas BigD please give me more info on the commercial use idea, iv had about 6 different people tell me this so i need to find out how to go about it.

ok so ive been told ill need to do some minor work to the brakes before thinking about puting the engine in (ca18 det) what kinda work are they saying i was thinking about just rippen out the rear drums and placing disks will that do or will it need performance brakes. thanks for all the help hopefully this site might help speed things up a bit. im gonna go and cheak out a work shop that can do it today... but knowing townsville i dont expect many answers

allwayssallin - in terms of engine conversion, trust me you know more already about how to do it than any random workshop does.

if your serious about doing the conversion your going to have to talk to kev rowley about a conversion kit. let me know if you need contact details. and alot of us ahve done the conversion so ask us too.

yea i know i probly wont be able to find some on that knows what there talking about but hopefully i will also my name is
all ways all in
im not a big fan of sallin :)

that infomation will be great thanks

sorry cob im discexick looked like sailing lol maybe your old v8 was a boat lol joke

haha its shocks are a bit stuffed no offence taken

2QK4U being in QLD you will have to check this with your local engineer contacts, But in NSW 1200 utes only can be registered for commerical use (under a buisness name) Commerical cars are almost always under load, working etc. this has different regulations for engine upgrades.
So along comes mr FJ20T required to carry all that heavy stuff for work.
The bonus with this is you claim fuel, tyres, engine service all on TAX
Then once engineered it can be re sold time and time again under private use as long as it doesnt run out of rego.

My understanding is in Vic you can get away with even more crazy engine mods than NSW.
Any Vic boys want to clarify if this is true?

yes vicroads are dumb, end of story

you could pretty much go and get them to just change the engine number on your rego to ca18XXXXXXX

and suddenly the engine is supposed to be there

yea my mate got a sr20det in a ford escort and told him it was a 2L be fore and to guy passed it it was a 1.3L mrk 1 lol