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Hello SAUACT,

Me and my two imports will be moving to Canberra early next year and I’m trying to work out what to do about rego/licence.

Am I better off keeping my NSW rego and Licence (I will still have a valid NSW residence) or should I transfer everything to ACT? I've already looked and it seems like rego costs will be about the same either way and insurance won’t change too much.

My main concerns are how strict are ACT police/laws for mods/defects vs NSW and how much trouble will it be to change everything over? And If I do change to ACT rego and I get pulled into a defect station in NSW what’s the go?

I've got an 180SX daily and a 300+kW Autech 260RS, I haven't had any trouble in NSW yet but I don't drive like a jerk.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated and maybe I'll see some of you at a meet some time.

ACT is generally more mod friendly. You just need to pass that first inspection coming into the ACT.

Never had an issue with either ACT or NSW, but I've also never seen an EPA stop either. Should not have many issues with a volvo wagon :)

Yeah I did get the impression that the ACT was a bit more mod friendly. General i've found ACT police to be much nicer than their NSW colleagues.

The Volvo wagon disguise i probably wearing a little thin in the cars current shape- Low, GTR rims, Loud exhaust + the Autech bits, body kit, brembos, FMIC etc.

The engine bay if full of pollished piping but the pods are enclosed.

Hmm... How tight is the inital inspection? Mods list below includes a lot of things an inspection shouldn't uncover but also a lot of things that "should" fail in NSW

Autech S15 seats

R34 GTR wheel

Lowered springs on standard struts

M35 steering wheel

Freeway dolphin gauge pod on dash

R34 GTR turbos

Nismo 555cc injectors,

Walbro fuel pump

Power FC

AVCR mounted on steering column

Z32s

Greddy suction kit and cold air box with factory snorkel

HKS 264 deg cams

HKS cam gears

HKS hard piping kit

Yoshida Garage custom ported head and port matched exhaust manifolds

Greddy extended split dumps and front pipe

Fujitsubo Cat back

"High flow" cat

N1 oil and water pumps

Greddy oil cooler kit

Turbosmart BOVs

It all depends where you take it... If you have to take it to the pits they might be a pain they might not. If you only have to take it to an ACT approved inspector i highly doubt you will fail. I had my GTR pass easy. If you can take it to an ACT approved place try to find somewhere that doesn't deal with modified cars much. I have found that they just make sure its high enough, check the lights and make sure no leaks. Then you are good to go.

But like i said i can't remember if you will have to take it over the pits... ask verms he did just move is Autech stagea across. I know he gets his done at Ultimate tunes and they where pretty good. I used to take the GTR to capital automotive in fyshwick as the guy that runs the place is pretty good.

p.s that does sound like a nice stagea.

Hmm... How tight is the inital inspection? Mods list below includes a lot of things an inspection shouldn't uncover but also a lot of things that "should" fail in NSW

Autech S15 seats

R34 GTR wheel

Lowered springs on standard struts

M35 steering wheel

Freeway dolphin gauge pod on dash

R34 GTR turbos

Nismo 555cc injectors,

Walbro fuel pump

Power FC

AVCR mounted on steering column

Z32s

Greddy suction kit and cold air box with factory snorkel

HKS 264 deg cams

HKS cam gears

HKS hard piping kit

Yoshida Garage custom ported head and port matched exhaust manifolds

Greddy extended split dumps and front pipe

Fujitsubo Cat back

"High flow" cat

N1 oil and water pumps

Greddy oil cooler kit

Turbosmart BOVs

Most likely get picked for the stuff I marked in red.

Try hide it and get your ride at the legal ride height.

Mainly too low, too loud stuff.

So unplug the AVC-R, the P-FC is behind the kick pannel so that should be fine and the BOVs are actually plumb back mounted in stock location.

I've got plans to get some coilovers as i'm not happy with the ride on the stock struts so i'll just set them above 100mm when that happens.

I'll try to borrow a dB meter so i can work out if i need to do anything with the exhaust.

Sweet!

Thanks everyone for the help with this

The power fc shouldnt be an issue and let me know if i can assist in anything as my car is nearly stock with a few modifications.

I still have the standard ecu if thats an issue! let me know when your in the state and well meet up!

Thanks everyone for the offers of stock parts. I move down in January but the cars are registered in NSW till the middle of the year. So i think i'll tidy the cars up and take them for inspections asap and then i have plenty of time to sort the cars out if the fail.

We've got a dB meter and emissions tester at work so i'll try to borrow the dB for a weekend.

Yes M35 steering wheel, heaps cheaper than a replacement stock one/GTR wheels and much nicer/legal than the Personal deap dish wheel that was on the car, it pretty much goes straight on. The clock spring just needs a little foreplay/dirty talk to make it fit.

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