Cars from England

paddington2

i was just wondering about nct on a car from england as the car i was looking at has also had an engine conversion and was wondering if it would pass

Atomic Pineapple

as long as its safe it'll be fine

colm_mcm

and as long as the emissions are within acceptable levels.

paddington2

does any one know about emissions, it was originally a 1.4 ej9 honda civic but it now has a b16a engine in it

Gumbo

as long as the exhaust sytem is fitted correctly and it has the cat in place the emmissions will be grand.

you just have to make sure the conversion was carried out to a decent quality, ie mounts ok, suspension ok, engine no leaking any fluids etc etc

Dirty_Diesel

As long as you still have the cat converter you will be fine with the vtec engine. However, you will have the register the car here first. But what do you register it as? Its not a 1.4 basic model any more and neither is it a vti. I would register it as a 1.4 but then get a form (forget the number) change to vehicle and declare the dohc. You may have to get an engineers report on the car because even if you say it's a vti it wont have its suspension or brakes. In the case of the claim the company may refuse to pay up (happened to my buddy, 1.6td engine in a standard MK2 Golf GTI).

colm_mcm

The cynic in me says that anyone who buys a 1.4 with a transplant instead of a proper 1.6 isn't going to declare the engine.

netwhizkid

colm_mcm wrote: »

The cynic in me says that anyone who buys a 1.4 with a transplant instead of a proper 1.6 isn't going to declare the engine.

Wouldn't it not make more sense to when you'd take into account the savings in Motor tax from the lower cc engine.