After doing some research on weight reduction on my 03 sti could I just remove this and still pass mot as the spec c doesn’t come with one . Wanting the standard look retained on it but lose weight we’re I can

 

Apparently so. It would possibly depend on how vigilante your MOT tester is. There's a lot of talk about it on the US sites. Its like the GBOD and its only there for safety not structural.

 

Well my MOT tester has never even asked

 

i spoke to Richard at fb tuning , it is safety only rather than structural , but in simple terms if it’s safety is it not worth keeping on the car ? and as far as mot was concerned it depends on the tester , if nothing is there then nothing to test , or if nothing is there why is it not there ?

 

When these cars were built there was no crumple zones, all removing the sub-frame does, is make it more euro compliant now there is a better crumple zone in an accident.

 

lol i don’t want to be that crumple zone , sounds like the old vw camper vans where the front tyre was the crumple/crumble zone