had my first SVA yesterday. A fail, but not as bad as I was expecting!

1 : Emissions (expected)
Its not been set up, and failed the previous MOT emissions test (just), but completely failed the SVA one by a large margin. CO was way high (0.92?) but lambda was also very high. This to me seems contradictory...
I'm thinking that either the Cat is toast, or the CO readin is correct but the lambda is wrong. The examiner mentioned that he couldnt get the probe very far into the exhaust as it was rigid and couldnt get far into the bend at the end so perhaps it was picking up more air than it should have been. If so, im not sure how to remedy that other than fitting a different tailpipe....
anyhow, its going to have to be booked into a bike servicey place who can fiddle and know what they are doing.

2 : Self Centering.
I thought I had fixed this but it just wasnt centering enough for him. I'll have to get it all off again and recheck everything.

3 : a tiny bit of play in the track rod ends. This sounds like the threaded part of the rod end isnt pulled up enough into the reamed part of the upright. I'll try some washers on the top to pull it up more. failing that, some sort of thin collar?

4 : No fixed brake bias (expected)
I didnt want to drill and fix anything without knowing the balance was set up right. it seems that it was!
now for the nightmare task of getting into the driver footwell again..

other than that there was a couple of 10 second fixes which are very easy to do, so I was quite surprised. I didnt go expecting a pass so didnt build my hopes up, I just wanted a short list of things to fix. other than the emissions, everything seems okay.

the tester was very fair. He didnt say a lot though the test which had me shi...ing bricks but at the end explained it all and complemented me on the build. Said it was very nice and passed on things most kits fail on
he did however tell me that some fella tried to put in a Tiger kit with a bike engine, and after 6 failed attempts at emissions gave up and put a car engine in it. not what I wanted to hear!!

a couple of pleasant suprises.. headlight aim was fine (I completely guessed!), no sharp front projections, dash radiuses were fine (me and the missus spent a long time making vinyl padding and boots for the front shocks. After all, I wanted it to be permanent and not a bodge)
Speedohealer adjustment was fine. Front indicator mounts were fine. Seatbelt mounts were fine (another concern after chocky's issues).

all in all, im pretty pleased with it. The only black cloud is emissions (no pun intended!)

Heres a pic of the car before it left, and 2 more in my photo archive.


Pre SVA nearside

----> Pre SVA Dash

----> Pre SVA offside Rear

no Decals and black viper stripes on yet of course.. also probably going to fit a bonnet scoop and extra aero bulges

Good result if you ask me!!

ell done, only a few small bits to sort and ready for the summer!!

Rich.

Not too bad Roger. Fairly easy fixes, except the emissions perhaps.

If lambda is high then you're running lean, meaning there's plenty of oxyegen for the cat to oxidise the CO into CO2. If it isn't then perhaps your cat has had enough.

Rog,

Good effort looking at your can you managed to get some heat into it !!!

regards

Agriv8

not enough it seems!

oh, some addendums:

- driving the car for the first time ever over 25mp, in rush our traffic, on a motorway, beside HGV's is VERY scary...

- having a laptop with 200+ build photos on it pleases the tester a lot!

- having a non-working water guage and radiator fan switch is not great. (thank god the fan override switch was working!!)

Sounds a good fail!! Not too much to sort out... I wouldn't worry about what the tester said- with ingenuity and determination a pass second time round should be no problem.. I wonder what the person who failed 6 times was doing to try and mend the problem?

Those readings sounds strange.... It could well be that the probe wasn't far enough up (if they're accurate it suggests the CAT has died).... Does the end of the silencer can come off (it would be blooming loud but one way of checking).... Either that or take the can off the collector and stick a probe up there...

Great news Rog!

The fails seem to be fair enough?

A few questions btw...

1. Where did you get the rear reflectors mounted on the side of the rear tub?

2. What mirrors did you use in the end?

3. What did you make your exhaust surround from? Looks a good job! Removeable without taking the manifold off?

4. Where'd the headlights come from?

5. Did you borrow Marc's cat and exhuast?

6.Does it go aswell as you'd hoped? Easy enough to drive?

7. Not a question, but bloody well done! Looks like a very neat build with a quality finish.

When's the retest?

Take it easy,

Chris.

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Rog,

I would sugest that you take it easy on the load pedal until fueling is sorted out post SVA . as by the looks of it you are running very lean

regards

Agriv8

duly noted, cheers!

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Rog,

I would sugest that you take it easy on the load pedal until fueling is sorted out post SVA . as by the looks of it you are running very lean

regards

Agriv8

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Very Well Done Rog


Same position as me just about with self centering and emmissions to sort if you make any breakthrough progress keep me informed and vica versa


Excellent looking build mate



Martin

as a rule of thumb ( and I may have this wrong )

most of the carbed r1's need to run lean to get the temp up for the cat to work for sva emmisions. this will mean that it is lean across the whole rev range.

Wouldnt want one of you to melt somthing

Regards

Agriv8

Good looking car mate, and best of luck with your retest.

Just a quick question from me... what did you put on the bottom of the dash to achieve the 19mm radius?

Steve

graet looking car. mac 1 may be able to help with a cat hire kit. i borrowed theres last week for my sva and the car flew through the test ( co2 0.00 / unburnts 0.01) and i did no pre work on the emissions in fact the car wouldn't even start on teh day of the test and hadnt been starting for a week or so and after an hour at mac1 they had it running sweet. they accompanied me to the test and set the car up on the centres emissions tester.

where abouts are you in sw manchester as it may not be all that far to mac 1 for you. if i can help with out let us know. I'm in glossop and have a car full of sticky, rounded, soft, radiused things that may help for your retest.


pif

cheers pif, i'll give the chaps at Mac1 a shout

fortunately, rounded bits are sorted, they are the things I breezed it on!

coozer: all the under dash padding is done with pipe lagging covered in vinyl/leather effect material.

the diagonal ones above the knees are wrapped in the leather stuff and fixed behind with velcro.

cut your lagging to fit, take it off. wrap material around it and trim the material, leaving an inch either side so you can fold the material back and create a 'return' rounded edge (rather than a horrible scissored edge).
get the sewing machine out (got the missus to do this bit, lol). sew the return edges and then attach a strip of velcro.

the one on the dash underside was more of a swine to fit, its a combination of double sided tape on the inside and strong duck tape on the rear side.

the lagging is a sod to try to retain its bend. mine split along the back which helped a bit, and I also had a hairdryer on it which didnt do a lot admittedly..

despite being easily removable, everything was done to be a permanent fixture. after all if done right it looks very nice, and is a lot safer if an accident occurs.

I have to say though, 3/4 of the way though fitting it I wished i'd just got some doortrim and bodged it..
glad I didnt now though!

looks great top job, appologies about the cat problems tried to get some more to add to the 8 we already have but so far have been unsucessfull, unfortunately some people have been askibg for sva stuff far too far ahead of the sva which has meant that people who actually need it are short

once again great job on the car