I dunno if all you guys in datto land have seen pics of my wifes ute yet. If you have you may have noticed that its set up for 10in wide slicks. However, we seem to have hit a snag with these plans.

Every engineer I have spoken to has knocked the idea on the head. Seems any movement of the rails takes it from mod to ICV. An ICV has to meet the ADR's of the current year, meaning it will cost up to five times as much just to get papers, let alone the safety and pollution mods that would be required.

My issue with this is that I have seen plenty of cars with wilder chassis mods then ours that are road registered. Check out those bloody Lo-Luxes and there notched rears for christ sakes, as well as any mini-tubbed V8 or rotary.

My Q's are how the hell do they get around the ICV laws, and if you were in our position what would you do?

Firstly from the pics i have seen, yours is not channeled. Channeled is when the body has channeld sections made up into the floor so it can sit down over a seperate chassis.
Yours looks to have had the rails moved inwards. This is called narrowed rails and is done when full tubs are to be fitted.
Most minitrucks get their rails notched vertically so that they can sit down over the diff without hitting on the diff.
NSW RTA guidelines only rule out narrowing of the chassis. This allowing the minitrucks to legally be notched if engineer approved.
With your ute looking to have used the stock rails. If you fit a standard looking floor, it will continue to look stock. If your rails are moved inwards to the extreme. Upon inspection it will likely be picked. But keeping it within reason and fitting average width rims for inspection will keep it looking like its only mini tubbed and this does not require inspection.
Quite simply no nsw engineer will approve it unless you go IVC like you have been told.

I was told today that notching the chassis was a no-no. I guess its all a matter of opinion for these guys, they have to put their name to it.

The rails are about one inch in and boxed over the diff. My plan was to tell my local engineer the chassis is just boxed, totally legal, and see what he says. If its a goer then I'd grind back any signs of the original mounts, smooth them out and stoneguard it. As you said, I'd then just fit 15x6's and get it inspected.

Otherwise we'll just have to drop the chassis and weld it back onto its original mounts. This is a real tough decision.

personally i think to save the hassle later, just weld them back to the original mounts.

I guess it's decided!

Any one got any experience in this area?

What about leaving and trying to pass it? If it gets picked up we could revert back to the old chassis. Whats everyone think?

You guys should share a computer...so you can spend more time together

I think the fact we don't see one another that often keeps the relationship strong.

Secret to marriage for all you singles out there!