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kyleb, I had to pass the same regulations as everyone else had too in QLD, I cant speak to other States because I don't have any experience in this regard.

The biggest issue I had to deal with was side pipes on both sides of the car, quite simply QLD transport didn't want to have a bar of that until I front and centered with a bunch of other Australian (and QLD) registered cars that were both factory produced and Australian compliant.

The biggest thing I found in this whole process was that an individuals interpretation of the rules generally meant that if they were sure on an answer that the general answer was NO. If you then questioned the response and provided greater substantive information that it was very easy to have the answer changed.

One thing that went a long way to assisting my registration process was having a good engineer that was willing to provide guidance as to what was needed to make everything good.

On your noise question my test was a drive by as well as static and was undertaken knowing full well that I could and would potentially fail. Telling the engineer that you expected to fail also (I believe) went a long way because that way he knew I wasn't trying to take short cuts.

Once I had a starting point I could obviously assess what was required to shut the car up and the second test was static and passed with flying colours.