Ahhhh IVA test on Friday + timeline

[SeriesLandy]

Just to let everyone know that I've got my IVA test on Friday

Also my iva timeline so far

Iva application:
1st May Friday iva forms posted
6th received at Swansea
8th applied for v55/5 form
8th paid for test £450
19th v55/5 form recieved
22nd rec email from Vosa. No date
6th June 8am - IVA booked - 1st time pass!
9th June - Documents sent, including build manual
1st July - Registration document a received!

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5563/14320322676_12b73e47ce_z.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/14320322676/)
Completed car (https://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/14320322676/) by Series1Landy (https://www.flickr.com/people/serieslandy/), on Flickr

[MikeB]

Good luck, car looks tip top!

[Enoch]

That looks absolutely gorgeous. Best of luck for Friday.

[K4KEV]

Looking very slick Steve and good luck for Friday, looking forward to hearing what transpires good or bad (preferably good of course;) )

[Stot]

A month turn around seems pretty good.

Good Luck!
Stot

[Peter-C]

Good luck for Friday, car looks amazing.

[CTWV50]

Best of luck car looks great.:)

[SeriesLandy]

Cheers for the comments guys.
Whilst putting the finishing touches to the car I noticed the exhaust was loose so i took it off, put some more paste on it and let it warm up on idle.
When moving the car back into the garage it kept on stalling at normal idle 900ish rpm. It's ok if I hold the revs at about 1200. The problem seems to be when it comes off choke (auto) as it's fine before then.
Why is there always a problem at the last moment.

The car is on stock carb, manifold, ignition and controller.

The only thing I can think of is I snapped the vacuum tail off the esc2 module and stuck it back on with superglue. Maybe there is a vacuum leak there.

[twinturbo]

my old sierra 1800 Pinto would quit at idle with the vac hose to either the carb or esc2 off. So a vac leak is a good place to start.

TT

[flyerncle]

Plug the pipe at carb and see what happens,you wont have vac to esc but you will know if its leaking.

[SeriesLandy]

Well the car is all loaded up on the trailer ready for tomorrow.
I did run it up eariler and it still wouldn't idle correctly. I pulled the vac hose of the manifold and it got really lumpy and kept trying to die without lots of revs.
To stop it stalling I've upped the revs to about 1200 on the adjuster but I'm not happy with the "solution" at the sec.
Has anyone any other ideas?

[j.brownster79]

Good luck for tomoz fella! Car looks great, with your running fault you say it does it when the car has warmed up!? Is the auto choke working correctly? If that isn't going right off it would run crap then check all your vacuum pipes are in the correct place. Hope you get it sorted before the test as I don't think he will be happy with the emissions if it's not running correctly.

[flyerncle]

Did you blank the hole/pipe Steve,if you leave the hole open it bypasses the throttle butterfly and runs lean and will die on idle.

[SeriesLandy]

I've got the left side of the manifold running to the esc2. The right side is blanked with a tapered bolt. In the centre one side is blanked with a bolt and a short bit of vacuum pipe and the other bit of the t goes to the crank breather.
Is this right as it's only just started to happen but got worse last night.

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2940/14374315373_9869cd19c0_z.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/14374315373/)
Untitled (https://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/14374315373/) by Series1Landy (https://www.flickr.com/people/serieslandy/), on Flickr

[skov]

Best of luck tomorrow!

[SeriesLandy]

I've got a grin from ear to ear as the car passed and I had a lovely 25mile drive home in it.
More details to follow.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3908/14358600234_43f094b557_z.jpg (https://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/14358600234/)
Iva test centre (https://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/14358600234/) by Series1Landy (https://www.flickr.com/people/serieslandy/), on Flickr

[skov]

Woo hoo! Well done mate :cool:

[davedew]

Well done on the first time pass. It is a great feeling.
Just the DVLA to deal with now. Keep on to them and hopefully you can speed the process along. That's what I did anyway.

Hopefully the weather will improve. Just seems to have rained since I got my plates!!

[K4KEV]

Well done Steve 1st time anawl (as well) init just the bestest feeling ever, now go easy on the grog.:D

[j.brownster79]

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉 did you get the running problem sorted?

[SeriesLandy]

Well last night I felt like driving it into a wall. I went this morning expecting a fail but it seemed to run perfectly all day. Stupid car.

On choke its fine, fully warmed up (fan kicking in) it's fine.
I'm guessing it's the autochoke that is the problem so further investigation required.

[CJ27]

Well done, you must be over the moon, the car looks ace!

[alga]

Congratulations! The car looks great.

[j.brownster79]

Well last night I felt like driving it into a wall. I went this morning expecting a fail but it seemed to run perfectly all day. Stupid car.

On choke its fine, fully warmed up (fan kicking in) it's fine.
I'm guessing it's the autochoke that is the problem so further investigation required.

Now the iva done just take it off!! Who needs a choke this weather! Lol

[SeriesLandy]

Iva test summary:
I arrived at the test centre at about 7.45, took the car off the trailer and ran it around the industrial estate and it was still running really badly.
When the guys opened the door and I met my examiner, Mark. He got me to put the car straight up on the ramp and had a look at the chassis plates and had a good poke around under the car.
mark was very complementary about my welding and thought it was a mass produced car and said that it was very well finished.
After going forwards and backwards to the car outside to get some tools I had to take the harness bolt out to show how far it went into the roll bar. Next was headlight alignment. The drivers side needed a little tweak, he wasn't happy with the near side as I had rotated the lens 10 deg. So I had to take the light apart so it gave a flat pattern.

All was going well until the mirror test. It passed visibility and the 40x70mm but it must have a 70mm vertical space somewhere on the mirror. My racetech ones are only 50mm high so he failed them.
Onto the brake rollers and the rears were locking up first, as the fronts warmed up they started to lock first. We went outside and I had to drive at 15mph and slam the brakes on. Both of the front
Wheels locked before the rears.
The sound test came back at 92dB on an r1 can. So that was well under.
Onto the speedo test and I had to go outside due to H&S crap and it was ok but reading 60mph at 70. He let me tweak it a couple of times and it now reads 68 at 70mph.
One of my front arches was slightly behind the 30deg forward angle but I managed to just about bend it forwards although there was hardly any movement.
Lastly was exterior and interior projections. There were no problems here, I didn't have to add any trim or do anything.
So the car had failed on mirrors only but Mark let me go to a local bikeshop and buy a set (£30), fit them and then what felt like 30mins later presented me with the certificate.
I then had the fun of driving home 25miles. The car didn't miss a beat and the smile still hasn't warn off.
The examiner was very fair although I was a bit annoyed about the mirrors but it is in the manual and somehow I missed it. He ran me through every aspect of the test and was really helpful and a lovely guy.
Now to battle with the DVLA.

[CTWV50]

Iva test summary:
I arrived at the test centre at about 7.45, took the car off the trailer and ran it around the industrial estate and it was still running really badly.
When the guys opened the door and I met my examiner, Mark. He got me to put the car straight up on the ramp and had a look at the chassis plates and had a good poke around under the car.
mark was very complementary about my welding and thought it was a mass produced car and said that it was very well finished.
After going forwards and backwards to the car outside to get some tools I had to take the harness bolt out to show how far it went into the roll bar. Next was headlight alignment. The drivers side needed a little tweak, he wasn't happy with the near side as I had rotated the lens 10 deg. So I had to take the light apart so it gave a flat pattern.

All was going well until the mirror test. It passed visibility and the 40x70mm but it must have a 70mm vertical space somewhere on the mirror. My racetech ones are only 50mm high so he failed them.
Onto the brake rollers and the rears were locking up first, as the fronts warmed up they started to lock first. We went outside and I had to drive at 15mph and slam the brakes on. Both of the front
Wheels locked before the rears.
The sound test came back at 92dB on an r1 can. So that was well under.
Onto the speedo test and I had to go outside due to H&S crap and it was ok but reading 60mph at 70. He let me tweak it a couple of times and it now reads 68 at 70mph.
One of my front arches was slightly behind the 30deg forward angle but I managed to just about bend it forwards although there was hardly any movement.
Lastly was exterior and interior projections. There were no problems here, I didn't have to add any trim or do anything.
So the car had failed on mirrors only but Mark let me go to a local bikeshop and buy a set (£30), fit them and then what felt like 30mins later presented me with the certificate.
I then had the fun of driving home 25miles. The car didn't miss a beat and the smile still hasn't warn off.
The examiner was very fair although I was a bit annoyed about the mirrors but it is in the manual and somehow I missed it. He ran me through every aspect of the test and was really helpful and a lovely guy.
Now to battle with the DVLA.

Good write up, sounds like a great day out. Well done that Man!

Could you of into a bit more detail on the interior test. Was it a 100mm ball test only and did he start to try and find places for it to go in the drivers under dash footwell? Thanks.:)

[SeriesLandy]

It was a good day, especially as I went expecting to fail on emissions. Towards the end he took a lot of brake tests (snore) and he took a long time filling out the paper work but if he had only done the 5 brake tests it would have failed due to the rears locking first.

He never even used the ball apart from around the front suspension and everything was covered. He put the 2.5mm gauge on the headlights and tested the dash (19mm).

He had a good look under the dash on both sides but I had boxed them in and said that it was fine.

He also said there was a horizontal line 150mm up from the seat base with a different size sphere above and below but I can't remember which

[thailoz]

well done now get out and enjoy all the hard work you put in:D :D :D

[CTWV50]

It was a good day, especially as I went expecting to fail on emissions. Towards the end he took a lot of brake tests (snore) and he took a long time filling out the paper work but if he had only done the 5 brake tests it would have failed due to the rears locking first.

He never even used the ball apart from around the front suspension and everything was covered. He put the 2.5mm gauge on the headlights and tested the dash (19mm).

He had a good look under the dash on both sides but I had boxed them in and said that it was fine.

He also said there was a horizontal line 150mm up from the seat base with a different size sphere above and below but I can't remember which

Oh right, good to know, I better get boxing!:)

[vmax1974]

well done that man

[flyerncle]

Ditto,Nice one Steve.

[Dualist]

Well done mate, good to see another one get through.

[jason 82]

Congratulations ! Let's hope we get some real nice sun now to give you a good run out. :D

[SeriesLandy]

Cheers for all the comments. I can't wait to get the car registered.

[MikeB]

Well done fella!
First time pass! :)

[SeriesLandy]

After posting my docs on the 9th June and chasing twice, I finally received my documents today.
I'm going to go and buy some plates and go for a leisurely drive tonight.

I'm well chuffed even if I've been waiting 3 weeks for them to send me the docs.

[K4KEV]

Well eye matey about to join the 'On the road--sters ' doh ...now just enjoy, but don't forget a shakedown after your 'leisurely' jaunt's out.
Well done bud:)

[SeriesLandy]

I will do, after your jubilee clips coming loose i think everything will be checked.