S.V.A. Form

[427sc]

Hello Guys........i am just filling out the sva form to book in and looking for advice on the following questions:

Q 11 Date of Manufacture/First Registration......which date do i put in date of donor vehicle??
Q13 (a) Maximum Design Road Speed.........(should i just put something like 135 mph?

Q15 Design Weights....where do i get this info from???

thanks for looking....cheers..steve

[dave]

Hi Steve.
Q11. Date the kit was manufactured, not the donor.
Q13. That'll do. Make sure your tyres are up to doing that speed, cos that's why they ask.
Q15. Tis info should ba available from the manufacturer, if you can't get hold of Realm engineering try Cheng Lim at thunderoad Cars.
NB. Put down your max engine power as 4000RPM cos they will test the noise at 3/4 of this and if you tell them 6000 they'll test you at 4500 and you will be more likely to fail.
Good luck.

[andywsussex]

Hi.

Q11 - the year it will be tested in
Q13 - anything less than the maximum tyre speed rating (though I guess it has to be at or above 70mph!)
Q15 - these came from the manufacturer (in my case Dax), with different numbers for the different powerplants. I guess they should be supplied by RAM? Or someone with a RAM could supply them.

Andy

[andywsussex]

Doh! Dave beat me to it.

I second Dave's comments on noise. I put something which meant he wanted to do it at about 3500 rpm. No chance at that, but fortunately for me the tester used his discretion and said he 'assumed I mistakenly quoted maximum revs rather than maximum power revs' and consequently he decided to do it at 2500 rpm. Just passed. Depends on who you're lucky enough to get though. The guy who tested me at Gillingham was great, more interested in build quality than nitpicking on radii and such-like. Chap testing the Caterham 7 behind was a complete g!t, kept wandering over to point out things on my car that would fail (including Dax's SVA wing mirrors). Fortunately my tester ignored him.

Andy