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Originally Posted by Macka62
I'd like to hear the pro's and cons if anyone has some info.
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I've never imported a car before so I don't know what would be required. That said, since I have been going through the engineering process myself atm, I could imagine that you will need an engineer to complete rego. If you are after full rego and not something like club rego, then the engineer would possibly require a full chassis test, calculate side intrusion, require the correct ride height, E markings, tyres and rims, offsets, drawings of mods to donor parts, etc. The list could be quite long which equals dollars for the engineer. There might be ways/exemptions to ge around some of these issues but you will need to speak to an automotive engineer to be confident for exactly knowing where you stand. I'll PM you the details of my engineer. There is only one person that I know of on this forum who has imported a cobra for full rego and I believe that was quite a few years ago. Unfortunately regs and ADRs change over time.
That leaves two other options, buy or build.
In short, if you buy, buyer beware, but should be a straight forward process to transfer rego. Easy if it's in the same state perhaps less so if it's interstate. Others can tell you about interstate transfers, I built mine.
If building, apart for the process of building, building a recognised kit, which your engineer has passed before, is not too costly or hard to get passed and regoed as all the computations and chassis testing and drawings of modded parts etc etc have already been done, if you build it as per the manufacturer's specs.
This is only a summary, intended only to get you thinking. It's by no means exhaustive. You've got lots of questions to ask.
Cheers