I built my car using the old draft version from 1995 and passed first time.
The radius issue is pretty obvious, proper P clipping shows a good build, tidy and neat reasures the inspector of the quality.
Brake bias is an unknown unless you can get to calibrated brake rollers so make sure all the pipes are well fitted and as much as possible is either refurbed or new, i got through 4 master cylinders before buying new.
Seat belt mount height and strength.
Tyres must be correctly speed rated and the SVA inspectros are expecting top speeds to be declared at the same as the donor unless you can prove you have geared down with diff and smaller tyres.
You could take the car to an MOT station for a pre MOT check ( don't book it for MOT proper or you will have problems later if they log the results on the DVLA computer) this will give you an idea of brake performance, emissons and lights.
Don't expect a first time pass but if you build well and get plenty of people that have passed SVA to have a look, you will go to SVA knowing you have done your best and at the worst you will get a short list of things to correct.
My biggest problem was an electronic speedo that failed at 62 MPH due to the wrong use of coax cable, i was alowed to re wire it in the inspectors rest brake but it still needed a shielded cable and recalibrating, i finaly got it to just get to over 70 before the needle plumeted back to zero, then it was reading too low, in a panic i hot wired it to the battery, punched in some new numbers ( 3 times ) and scraped throught the test.
Have rewired with proper 2 core shielded cable and all is well
Best of luck and i realy mean this.. don't worry.. if you have built it with care you will be fine.
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