BadBong wrote:1) I need to get it engineered to have it street legal?
2) How much will that cost to setup?
3) Will that mean extra yearly costs to keep it compliant?
4) How much more do you think a supercharger will add to an average comprehensive insurance policy?
1 - Yes
2 - Depends on engineer, other mods, etc, topic quoted above will give a good indication
3 - Not in an RTA or rego sense, realistically you'll have a slightly higher maintinence cost.
4 - Few companies will probably want to touch it. Just Cars and Shannons will be the best ideas, I've used Shannons and they were reasonably competitive compared to insuring a mildly modded MX5 with any of the majors.
BadBong wrote:P.S. Thanks Clubman - reading the post now... getting it street legal IS my biggest concern over everything else quite frankly. Given that the kit looks so stock, I wonder whether i can get away without getting it engineered until a later date... or is it something that has to be done before and during installation?
You can take a car to an engineer whenever you like, in the case of a simple bolt on SC kit, they'd likely be fine with that. Some like to see the development of the car, but for a bolt on kit, that's highly unlikely...
Still, with engineering reasonably easily obtained, and a must in terms of legal liabilty... Why wait?
