Re: OT somewhat: Chassis design legal requirements


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On 11 Sep, 17:16, Phaeton <phae...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On 11 Sep, 15:37, "Mrcheerful" <nbk...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My home built one just needed an MoT and an engineer's certificate
that
it
was built soundly, mind you that was thirty years ago !!

:) I wish it was that easy now! No, actually I dont, id really like
to
be sure it was up to scratch before putting friends and family in
it!
I am an engineer, but not in automotive design so i don't want to
assume i know everything and get something obviously wrong. I'm
fairly
sure I could design a chassis to meet any standard required, but
I'd
have to know the standards required first lol.
I have a while to plan it so im getting the research in now. I
suppose
I could copy the atom chassis design, theres a fair few images of
it
out there to go off, but I dont know if that would be considered
acceptable evidence.

Try one of the proper kit forums? People do build things with
homebuilt
chassis, so I assume it must be possible.

I cant find one that appears to be "active" to any great extent. I'll
keep looking.
The law tightened in 2004 IIRC, I think most home-build chassis are of
lotus-7 style and so based on an existing proven chassis.

Try PPC magazine's forums or write to the magazine? They have quite a
few writers and readers who have built very silly vehicles.

Good website with lots of information iswww.locostbuilders.co.uksome
very knowledgeable people on there, including a SVA & Legal section.

However I have a kitcar built earlier this year, the manufacturer has
not 'crash tested' or any form of certification on it at all. The only
thing you 'need' is an SVA when complete, even for a one-off.

Alan...
had the chassis crash tested

:) The SVA test requires crash testing proof though, quote:

"1. Check that the vehicle is accompanied by
satisfactory documentary evidence of compliance
with the requirements of item E14b listed in the
"Enhanced SVA Requirements" Annex.
NOTE: Evidence of compliance may be in the
form of vehicle specific documentary evidence, ie
from the manufacturer or a test laboratory, or of
compliance with an acceptable comparable non-
European standard, or by the comparison of the
vehicle against the specification of an Approved
vehicle, ie using a model report."

?
I cannot find E14b online anywhere, or reference to anyone dealing
with it.


E14b refers to frontal impact.

Have you read the SVA book?
look here:
http://fp.topcateng.plus.com/Garage/SVA%20Section/sva_manual_draft.pdf

looks like you need section E1


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