VSB14 info please

modnrod Fahrvergnugen

978 posts · joined Mar 2011 · 20 Jan 2013, 1:46 pm

#939964

Gday all.
OK, I give up, my Google-fu is lacking here. 😊
I've spent 3 days trying to find the VSB14 section that deals with front and rear bumpers, and bodywork "trimming" and it's effects on things like exhaust sticking out , if there is a requirement for cages over what and so on.
Basically I want to yank off the bumpers (then use "nudge" bars or something) and trim the rear bodywork (no more than 6" up) on my 73 Super, but can't find the VSB14 guidelines applicable. The local Transport people are as useful as tits on a bull, 3 engineers told me to check VSB14 but they don't know the sections 🤖 and the inspectors want to go home at 5 o'clock (can't say I blame them).

Can anybody help please?
I honestly thought it wouldn't be the slightest issue........

reub VWRX is gone...

2,054 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 20 Jan 2013, 2:45 pm

#939971

I've got a link somewhere dude and will forward it (downloaded the entire ncop too)

The thing that frustrates the hell out of me regarding the ncop (national code of practice) for modified vehicles is that its a guide only, left for interpretation and applied differently from state to state.
Still a long way till we end up with a true national standard, although even that will be driven by the new car manufacturers strangle hold on bureaucrats in this country. Rant over for now...

Reub

modnrod Fahrvergnugen

978 posts · joined Mar 2011 · 20 Jan 2013, 4:08 pm

#939983

Don't stop ranting Reub! Hell I thought I was the only one driving around in a standard Commode (well, the wife's!) because I'd had a gutful. I once got a yellow sticker for a chrome aircleaner.........on a standard '63 Valiant.

I don't want a full Baja, I want something like my old '63 (in my avatar), I just like the styling lines, nothing else like it in the auto world. Lowered an inch or two (not 6 like the old hotrod!), the Baja-look nose is stock steel designed-in on the Superbug (I rekn they did it to try to cash in on the late-60s Baja/offroad fad), and trimmed rear valance up to the engine lid (a gentle curve, opposite curve to the engine lid), then put tube nudge bars front and rear.

If you have a copy of NCOP for the bumpers/bodywork, that would be cool as. I've already printed the bits out for the wheels/tyres, suspension height, seats/mountings, etc.
Thanks very much man.

psimitar Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,506 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 21 Jan 2013, 12:40 am

#940065

Here's the NCOP link

NCOP link

Oz is very annoying for vehicle mods as a lot of the supposed 'engineers' are nothing more than glorified boiler makers and soooooooooooo many things that are TUV approved say, much more stringent than ADR, aren't allowed here cos the engineers don't understand basic mechanical engineering.

Anyway, that's my rant over too. 🙂

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vwo60 Veteran Volks Folk

2,036 posts · joined Feb 2007 · 21 Jan 2013, 6:58 am

#940076

I have never had a issue when i use Richard Larsen at Loadsafe Engineering, he is a automotive engineer.

modnrod Fahrvergnugen

978 posts · joined Mar 2011 · 22 Jan 2013, 1:51 pm

#940269

Gday all.
Thanks for the link, all downloaded, all read through..........
......and not a damn thing about removing or replacing bumpers on older cars! 😂
There was a section devoted to "nudge bars", so I'll take it in mind and call my new bunny bouncers that I rekn, and just wing it.

psimitar Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,506 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 23 Jan 2013, 1:01 am

#940390

vwo60 wrote:I have never had a issue when i use Richard Larsen at Loadsafe Engineering, he is a automotive engineer.

He's an exception but almost semi-retired and very busy these days.

Only managed to find one other engineer on the southside of Brissy that seems any good but I was mainly refering to how antiquated the ADR seems to be in many aspects. Mods that are legal in many other countries with better vehicle regs than here and they aren't allowed here. Just a gripe I have with the ADR dude 🙂

madness is in the eye of the beholder 👍

psimitar Son of Jim - Creator of Good

2,506 posts · joined Jan 2009 · 23 Jan 2013, 1:05 am

#940391

modnrod wrote:Gday all.
Thanks for the link, all downloaded, all read through..........
......and not a damn thing about removing or replacing bumpers on older cars! 😂
There was a section devoted to "nudge bars", so I'll take it in mind and call my new bunny bouncers that I rekn, and just wing it.

Each state should have a mods rules too. I know QLD have one and in depth mods point to the ADR which mainly points to the NCOP BUT the ADR does have differences to the NCOP but I've looked fruitlessly for a downloadable 3 edition of the ADR so presume only a vehicle engineer has access to such things?

madness is in the eye of the beholder 👍