Is it legal to put a v12 engine on a volvo 240 for example in countries like france ?
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At least here in Sweden, the 240 is certified up 220 hp if memory serves my right. So any engine with less than that is possible, with a turbocharged B230 being the easiest and most popular choice for a swap. The car has to be from 1992 or earlier though, due to EU rules.
However you CAN do much crazier builds but that requires custom brakes, suspension, drivetrain etc in order to register it and make it road legal.
My guess is that most of Europe have similar rules.
Not legal in sweden at all, here we cant even swap oit exhaust or do any mods that increase HP or handling, it needs to be fully original.
That sounds like it sucks, but is much safer.
In Finland you can put crazy stuff on your car but the amount of paper work it requires to be legal on the road is crazy. Basically you need to prove that the mods you did didn’t make the car unsafe for anyone.
Basically for example a coilovers kit which is pre approved is easy, custom one hard because you need to provide all strength calculation for inspection.
Its about the same in sweden, and with paperwork and inspection you could double or triple the price of your mods, at the end the money invested would be ridicolous.
If you want a fast car here, buy a faster stock car.
Literally everything is road legal in Florida. No safety Or emissions. Just pay for your registration. No one even looks at the vehicle.
If you can somehow obtain revised registration documents for it, absolutely yes. But the costs to obtain revised documents, if just to change tyre sizes, are absolutely astronomical in Southern European countries. Put it this way: if you want to legally run a different tyre size on a car registered in France or Italy it’s much cheaper, faster and convenient to “fictionally sell” the vehicle to a German company that will carry out the modifications, obtain a registration for it and then sell it back to you than doing it locally. Imagine replacing an engine.
Then of course there are plenty of people running all sorts of crap out there and always getting away with it, but always assume you don’t belong to that group.
There’s a guy locally who owns a Nissan Figaro. It’s 100% original but just to get it registered he had to jump so many hoops I have always wondered if it was worth for what’s basically an ancient Micra.
No…
In the UK, you can do just about anything as long as it will pass an MOT test afterwards. Insurance companies may hammer you for it though.