What a different engineer said about the cat........

Under NSW clean air regulations, you are not allowed to downgrade
emission control equipment on an engine, even if the engine is going into an
older vehicle. The cat convertor rates a specific mention. Even if the
engine is modified to operate on LPG or CNG, the cat is still required!

darnnit!! where do i fit one in the mini?

That is incorrect !

It is clearly stated that LPG vehicles are excempt from the anti-pollution regulations

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Too many cars, and too little time.

I think that he meant dual fuel.
Anyway I am running out of options

I was told that I would need the cat, but I will be checking that with him shortly

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Too many cars, and too little time.

Well Two NSW Engineers have quoted no cat required...

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Baracade
Relationships! The only time you get to sleep with the enemy!
1972 US Export Moke in Bundaberg QLD

Yeah, that's why I'm going to get him to check again.
I have the original Subie ones fitted ATM, but will scrap them if not mandatory

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Too many cars, and too little time.

AWD my engineer has actually given me a written authority, but he stated that it had to do with the fact that it is a pre 72 model which made the difference. Go figure????

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225hp atw on 14psi. 1/4 Mile no idea. Take one 1971 Mini Clubman, one Starlet GT Halfcut, Simmer over a warm MIG Welder, and Voila Minstar! www.mpdesign.id.au

This is proof that you can read the law in different ways...

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Baracade
Relationships! The only time you get to sleep with the enemy!
1972 US Export Moke in Bundaberg QLD

also perhaps it is because the motor is from overseas and was no released here in australia.
I remember something along those lines from a while ago, when doing rb25 into a mates eh
Perhaps thats the reason.

Yeah maybe also this is in the ACT and the engineer indicated that they had just changed the law back to no cat whereas it had been previously car required, which seems equally strange to me.

Also how'd the EH go with a RB25 (DET?).

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225hp atw on 14psi. 1/4 Mile no idea. Take one 1971 Mini Clubman, one Starlet GT Halfcut, Simmer over a warm MIG Welder, and Voila Minstar! www.mpdesign.id.au

well still sitting in the garage, needs the harness done. He decidied it was not they way to go as he had to mod that much stuff to make it fit, that it would have been simpler to just go the v6. actually now that I think about it, it was a rb20t??. Anyway he said that for the same cost as this install he could have had a real nice V6 in it about a year ago.
he bought a you-beaut rack from some bloke in QLD and it turned out not much better then the pat gardner for bump steer (engineer said)