Single Seater Race car- can you SVA them for road use
09 January 2006, 03:23 AM
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Single Seater Race car- can you SVA them for road use
Ive always fancied getting a Formula Ford/Vee single seater race car. Can you SVA one for road use, obviuosly head lights etc... will be needed but is it a possibilitily??
09 January 2006, 08:58 AM
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True, in theory any vehicle can be SVA'd - but whether its worth spending the money to make it road legal is the question. You'd really need to get the car to a test centre and see what they fail it on, and ask them what you would need to do to get it sorted and go from there.
I remember a few years ago ( possibly on Top gear ) a bloke who had what was basically an old formula 1 car and used it on the road - outwardly it looked pretty much the same ( apart from some crap looking mudguards over the wheels which I think were a safety thing for the SVA ).
I remember a few years ago ( possibly on Top gear ) a bloke who had what was basically an old formula 1 car and used it on the road - outwardly it looked pretty much the same ( apart from some crap looking mudguards over the wheels which I think were a safety thing for the SVA ).
09 January 2006, 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by MikeCardiff
True, in theory any vehicle can be SVA'd - but whether its worth spending the money to make it road legal is the question. You'd really need to get the car to a test centre and see what they fail it on, and ask them what you would need to do to get it sorted and go from there.
I remember a few years ago ( possibly on Top gear ) a bloke who had what was basically an old formula 1 car and used it on the road - outwardly it looked pretty much the same ( apart from some crap looking mudguards over the wheels which I think were a safety thing for the SVA ).
I remember a few years ago ( possibly on Top gear ) a bloke who had what was basically an old formula 1 car and used it on the road - outwardly it looked pretty much the same ( apart from some crap looking mudguards over the wheels which I think were a safety thing for the SVA ).
09 January 2006, 10:10 AM
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Yea i was thinking it would properly need lights, number plates holder, indicators and mud guards. Is there a site which would list the requirments for an SVA?
09 January 2006, 10:22 AM
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Have a look on www.locostbuilders.co.uk and have a look in the SVA/Legal forum to see what they have to do to get their kit cars through the SVA.
Its not nearly as simple as adding lights and mudguards, the test is VERY thorough and covers things like protruding edges, sharp radii on corners, etc etc
EDIT : just found a copy of the sva manual online...
www.rootpeg.net/WurzleGummage.pdf
all 228 pages of it
Its not nearly as simple as adding lights and mudguards, the test is VERY thorough and covers things like protruding edges, sharp radii on corners, etc etc
EDIT : just found a copy of the sva manual online...
www.rootpeg.net/WurzleGummage.pdf
all 228 pages of it
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It's stranger than you would think!! I was exhibiting at a show one summer and down the road came a guy called Ed China on his roadworthy sofa. You may recall he did some racing against a shed and a 4-wheeled skip.
IIRC correctly Ed was telling me you don't have to have lights for example but you obviously don't drive in the dark! The point being if you do have lights fitted then they have to work but if you don't have them in the first place....... I think he had to have working brake lights which makes sense but not a lot more.
IIRC correctly Ed was telling me you don't have to have lights for example but you obviously don't drive in the dark! The point being if you do have lights fitted then they have to work but if you don't have them in the first place....... I think he had to have working brake lights which makes sense but not a lot more.
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Originally Posted by David Lock
It's stranger than you would think!! I was exhibiting at a show one summer and down the road came a guy called Ed China on his roadworthy sofa. You may recall he did some racing against a shed and a 4-wheeled skip.
IIRC correctly Ed was telling me you don't have to have lights for example but you obviously don't drive in the dark! The point being if you do have lights fitted then they have to work but if you don't have them in the first place....... I think he had to have working brake lights which makes sense but not a lot more.
IIRC correctly Ed was telling me you don't have to have lights for example but you obviously don't drive in the dark! The point being if you do have lights fitted then they have to work but if you don't have them in the first place....... I think he had to have working brake lights which makes sense but not a lot more.
regarding the sva'd fomula ford, you would have to be clinically insane to want to drive one of these on British roads!!
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Originally Posted by Edcase
.......yes I have seen that guy regularly around Soho, there is also one or two others I have seen around here including a fourposter bed,...
"50 quid sweetheart? That's fine - bed's parked around the corner"
09 January 2006, 03:02 PM
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the thing is, its been a dream of mine to have a single seater, I wouldnt race it in a club or anything, so it would have be road legal. I would go out on a dry night and pretent im an F1 driver or something lol.
Ive seen them for sale for under 5K, its gotta be dam quick due to light weight even with a little 1.6 zetec.
Ive seen them for sale for under 5K, its gotta be dam quick due to light weight even with a little 1.6 zetec.
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they feel quicker than they are due to low seat position etc. but the steering is so quick it would be dangerous on the road! 
09 January 2006, 04:47 PM
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I'm 60 pages through that PDF document and it makes little sense tbh. there's too much information that is irelevant
Edcase, danger is my middle name, or maybe you can change the rack so its less agresive on the turn in
Edcase, danger is my middle name, or maybe you can change the rack so its less agresive on the turn in
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