Engine swaps and IVA / Regs / Whatever

[BenRelle]

Lots of threads on here about swapping engines over etc. Are these a regulatory nightmare waiting to happen? Lots of scary stuff about modding cars and so on on various sites - hard to tell what's made up and what's got a grain of truth to it.

What happens when you put an LS6 into your Chimera 400 (or similar)? You just fill in the appropriate boxes on your V5 with the new engine number and capacity and leave it at that? Nothing else to do?

Cheers,

ben

[RichardD]

BenRelle said:

Lots of threads on here about swapping engines over etc. Are these a regulatory nightmare waiting to happen? Lots of scary stuff about modding cars and so on on various sites - hard to tell what's made up and what's got a grain of truth to it.

What happens when you put an LS6 into your Chimera 400 (or similar)? You just fill in the appropriate boxes on your V5 with the new engine number and capacity and leave it at that? Nothing else to do?

Cheers,

ben

Do you mean if you loose all financial control on an upgrade and ending up heavily in debt so have to declare yourself skint hence an Individual Voluntary Arrangement on your debts !?

I assume you mean SVA which is as far as I know for newly built cars and your hence last paragraph I believe to be true for an engine change on an existing one

What nightmares have you read about? Links would be appreciated.

[Vixpy1]

BenRelle said:

What happens when you put an LS6 into your Chimera 400 (or similar)? You just fill in the appropriate boxes on your V5 with the new engine number and capacity and leave it at that? Nothing else to do?

Cheers,

ben

Pretty much but you must now provide proof of purchase to the DVLA when changing things on the V5

[BenRelle]

- i was too polite to say so!

Just google 'engine swap IVA' - you'll get all manner of weird and wonderful stories. E.g. : http://www.yell.com/motoring/blog/wave-goodbye-to-...

Edited by BenRelle on Thursday 29th October 19:47

[RichardD]

BenRelle said:

- i was too polite to say so!

Just google 'engine swap IVA' - you'll get all manner of weird and wonderful stories. E.g. : http://www.yell.com/motoring/blog/wave-goodbye-to-...
..

Thanks for the link, I wasn't aware of IVA existing in this context as well as SVA, so humble apologies for the silly post above and a to you.

[grahamw48]

Also wise to inform the insurance when you've swapped to 427bhp in your MK5 Cortina.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

[fatjon]

All DVLA are asking for some evidence of what the engine is and its number. A print out of the ebay bill will suffice! Hardly means the end of engine swaps.