[stephen low]

Angelo

Welcome to the nut house but as said a lot of good blokes with a lot of info. to share.

I started by going back to the oldest threads posted here and working my way through what I wanted. Of course you could do a key word search for the topic of interest first.

To slightly clarify Al's details, as of the date of purchase of your kit, you will have three years to get your car VIN'd and be allowed to meet the ADR's that were current at that date of major purchase.

With emissions rules changing so quickly what Al is saying is that an engine compliant around/after your purchase date will be legal to use in the vehicle. In Al and my case, we are running the last of the AU windsors, last allowed up to the end of 2004 hence 3 years on and we MUST be VIN'd before years end or we will be likely to have to fit a later model engine eg boss or LS2 / L76 etc.

Do peripheral reasearch such as paint but really worry about what matters to get rego first unless you are confident you can fully finish the car in 3 years or you are less worried about engine choice to leave that be. Of course a major item like the engine then allows a lot of other major peripheral bits to be completed, so there will be a stage when you will have to make your mind up and commit, to be able to build on further.

Just think of it as a giant jigsaw with very little guiding picture and probably a whole lot of missing pieces, it's fun!!

Club meeting is on tomorrow night, it would be worth getting to that too.

Cheers and happy building